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Month: October 2024

Israel targets Hezbollah’s financial arm and begins striking Beirut

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and will attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut’s southern suburbs about an hour later. Evacuation warnings affected southern Beirut, the eastern Bekaa valley and parts of southern

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Iraq’s Kurdish region goes to the polls with a flagging economy and political infighting top of mind

Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region went to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections Sunday under the shadow of ongoing rivalries, economic instability and unresolved disputes with Baghdad. The primary competitors are the two dominant Kurdish parties: the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The

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‘What has happened online actually dwarfs what Magnus has done’: Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on chess’ streaming revolution

By Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — For someone ranked No. 2 in the world, playing competitive games of chess sits curiously low on grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura’s list of priorities. “I look at it as something to do to get away from streaming, versus the other way around,” he laughed during an interview with CNN Sport.

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Moldovan president appears set to win 1st round of presidential race, but EU vote could be rejected

Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s pro-Western president early Monday looked set to win the first round of a presidential race but accused “criminal groups” of undermining a referendum asking voters to decide whether to secure a path toward European Union membership, which risked being narrowly rejected. Nearly 95% of votes were counted in

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How a one-time GOP critic found alliance with Trump in pivotal Michigan Senate race

By Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — The day after January 6, 2021, Mike Rogers was blunt. The former Republican congressman blamed then-President Donald Trump’s “chaotic leadership style” for costing his party two critical Senate seats in Georgia. He said that “the spell” around Trump had been broken by the US Capitol attack,

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Alec Baldwin vuelve a ‘SNL’ en abierto… pero no como Donald Trump

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Alec Baldwin apareció nuevamente en el último episodio de “Saturday Night Live”, pero no en su capacidad anterior personificando al expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump. Esta vez, Baldwin interpretó al presentador de FOX News, Bret Baier, en el programa abierto, quien interrogó a Maya Rudolph como la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris en una

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Los centristas europeos se están volcando hacia la derecha en el tema migratorio. Para algunos, puede ser demasiado tarde

Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Un año después de que su victoria electoral provocara una inusual ronda de alivio y optimismo entre la clase dirigente europea, el líder de Polonia hizo un anuncio sorprendente. Donald Tusk, expresidente del Consejo de la Unión Europea cuyos vínculos de larga data con Bruselas lo convirtieron en un salvador y

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Georgia authorities investigating ‘catastrophic’ failure of boat dock gangway that killed 7 during Gullah-Geechee festival

By Dalia Faheid, Ashley R. Williams, Michelle Watson, Melissa Alonso, Sharif Paget and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are investigating the cause of a partial ferry dock collapse on Georgia’s Sapelo Island that turned a day of celebration into tragedy, leaving at least seven dead and six critically injured as crowds gathered for a

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Cascades Academy holds College Fair for area HS students to learn about admissions, financial aid processes

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Hundreds of area high school students and their parents learned how to navigate the college application process on Saturday at Cascades Academy, which hosted its first-ever STORY (Small Town Outreach and Recruitment Yielding) College Fair.  “Thirty-plus colleges and universities are here today, some of whom are big-name private institutions like Harvard, Yale

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OSP investigate deadly officer-involved shooting in Lincoln City; officers say wanted man reached for 2 guns in waistband

LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Police are investigating a deadly use of force on Saturday at a Lincoln City motel in which police officers contacted a wanted man who they said was non-compliant and reached for two guns in his waistband. Around 12:20 p.m., Lincoln City police responded to report of a domestic

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