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Month: June 2023

In China, muted reaction to revolt in Russia belies anxiety over war, global balance of power

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s muted reaction to the Wagner mercenary group uprising against Russia’s military belies Beijing’s growing anxieties over the war in Ukraine and how this affects the global balance of power. China’s ruling Communist Party called the swift end of the 22-hour revolt Moscow’s “internal affair,” with state

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EU faces a cliffhanger climate vote after its parliament emerged deadlocked on a key nature bill

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is facing a cliffhanger vote next month that will test its global climate and environmental credentials, after its parliament was again deadlocked on pushing a nature restoration bill onwards. The legislature’s environment committee emerged deadlocked at 44-44 on the plan to beef up the

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A dangerous heat wave is intensifying in the South with more than 55 million people under heat alerts

By Nouran Salahieh and Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — More than 55 million people from southern Arizona to the Florida coast are sweltering under a worsening heat wave that is expected to expand its reach this week, bringing more dangerous triple-digit temperatures. Excessive heat warnings, the highest criteria of heat alerts, include Dallas, New Orleans

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Un conserje escuchó “alarmas molestas” y apagó un congelador: arruinó 20 años de investigación escolar valorada en US$ 1 millón, dice una demanda

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un conserje universitario que apagó un congelador después de escuchar múltiples “alarmas molestas” arruinó más de 20 años de investigación, según una demanda presentada contra su empleador por el Instituto Politécnico Rensselaer en norte del estado de Nueva York. El conserje, que no está incluido en la demanda, era un

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‘I have never been this famous before … it’s crazy,’ says shot putter Jolien Boumkwo after competing in hurdles event

By Don Riddell and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — As she took to the start line of the 100-meter hurdles, Jolien Boumkwo was at first met with confusion, then amusement, then raucous support. The Belgian shot putter emerged as an unlikely hero from the European Athletics Team Championships in Poland on Saturday after injuries to

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FBI and Homeland Security ignored ‘massive amount’ of intelligence before Jan. 6, Senate report says

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released a new report on the intelligence

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