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Month: June 2024

Spain eliminates sales tax on olive oil to help consumers cope with skyrocketing prices

MADRID (AP) — Spain will temporarily eliminate the sales tax on olive oil to help consumers cope with skyrocketing prices, the government said Tuesday. Spain is the world’s leading producer and exporter of olive oil, but its cost for domestic consumers has risen dramatically due to global inflationary pressures and a prolonged drought that decimated

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Top European rights court says Russia responsible for breaching rights in Crimea after 2014 takeover

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that Russia was responsible for a string of human rights violations in Crimea since overrunning and later illegally annexing the Black Sea peninsula in 2014. The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Moscow was responsible for rights violations including reining in

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Red panda twins born at Detroit Zoo

By Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story     DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — Twin red pandas now call the Detroit Zoo home after being born there last week, officials said. Ravi, a 7-year-old red panda, and Ginger, a 3-year-old red panda, a first-time mom, welcomed the cubs on June 17. Zoo officials say the

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Who is Julian Assange, the polarizing founder of the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks?

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He emerged on the information security scene in the 1990s as a “famous teenage hacker” following what he called an “ itinerant minstrel childhood” beginning in Townsville, Australia. But the story of Julian Assange, eccentric founder of secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, never became

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Paris Men’s Fashion Week: Bold statements, A$AP Rocky’s surprise debut and Dries Van Noten’s farewell

Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Paris may be readying itself for the Summer Olympics, but sporting events are not the only buzzy affairs taking place in the French capital. This past week, fashion designers converged in the city for Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2025 menswear collections — but nothing was business as usual. Both

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More than 500 people have been charged with federal crimes under the gun safety law Biden signed

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Joe Biden signed two years ago Tuesday. A White House report obtained by The Associated Press

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BCPS kickoffs weapon detection initiative at 2 campuses; roll-out to continue this fall

By VANESSA MEDINA, TYNISA SENIOR, KEVIN BOULANDIER Click here for updates on this story     CORAL SPRINGS, Florida (WSVN) — Monday marked the first day of summer school and the launch of Broward County Public Schools’ pilot program to implement the use of walk-through metal detectors throughout the county. The first two schools participating in the

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Canada’s Liberals suffer major upset in Toronto special election, raising doubts about Trudeau

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party has suffered a major upset in a special election for a Toronto district it has held for three decades. That’s raising doubts about Trudeau’s leadership ahead of next year’s general election. Canada’s largest city is a traditional Liberal stronghold. The

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South Sudan says its 6M antelope make up world’s largest land mammal migration, but poaching on rise

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s most comprehensive aerial wildlife survey found about 6 million antelope — a figure that would make it the world’s largest land mammal migration. The government and the nonprofit African Parks teamed up to carry out the survey in spring

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Albanian appeals court upholds prison term for Greek minority mayor, raising tensions with Athens

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has upheld a sentence of two years in prison for an elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority. The move on Tuesday is expected to further exacerbate tension with neighboring Greece. Dhionisios Alfred Beleris was imprisoned in March after he was convicted

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On heartland roads, and a riverboat, devout Catholics press on with two-month nationwide pilgrimage

By PETER SMITH Associated Press STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — “Bye bye, Jesus!” a child called out as the riverboat chugged away from shore into the Ohio River, a solemn bell tolling amid the thrumming of an old-fashioned sternwheel. Two Catholic bishops on board, representing dioceses on each side of the river, took turns holding aloft

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