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Doctors forced to strip in cold at Gaza’s Nasser hospital, witness says, as IDF announces arrest of Hamas militants there

By Kareem Khadder, Alex Stambaugh, Richard Allen Greene and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN (CNN) — Israeli troops forced doctors and other medical staff to leave the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, strip down to their underwear, and wait in the cold for hours before the troops allowed five doctors to go back into the building to

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US circulates rival UN resolution for temporary Gaza cease-fire after rejecting Arab proposal

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has circulated a rival U.N. Security Council resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza after rejecting an Arab-backed resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the conflict-wracked territory. The U.S. draft resolution, obtained Monday by The Associated Press, would underscore

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Probe of illegal drugs delivered by drone at West Virginia prison nets 11 arrests

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Eleven suspects have been arrested in an investigation into illegal drugs allegedly delivered by drones into a federal prison in southern West Virginia. McDowell County Sheriff James Muncy says his office was contacted in November by officials at the medium-security Federal Correctional Facility, McDowell in Welch to help with increased drone

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Israel says Brazil’s president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust

By MELANIE LIDMAN and ELEONORE HUGHES Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister said Monday that Brazil’s president would not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a “very serious antisemitic attack.” On Sunday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da

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Guatemalan accused of importing fentanyl precursors for Mexican cartel arrested

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for allegedly participating in the importation of the precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa cartel to make fentanyl. Two officials in the Chiapas state prosecutor’s office who requested anonymity said Monday that immigration

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5 Argentines, 1 Mexican died in a highway accident near a beach resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five Argentines and one Mexican are dead following an accident on a highway that links beach resorts on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Mexico’s president said Monday the crash was “ugly, very ugly.” Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said the accident occurred Sunday on the highway between the resorts of

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Messi and Miami are grabbing the attention in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference

By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA UNION 2023 RECORD AND FINISH: 15-9-10, 4th in the East, lost in the conference semifinals to FC Cincinnati. COACH: Jim Curtin. KEY PLAYERS: Alejandro Bedoya, James Blake. Julian Carranza. OUTLOOK: The Union have reached the conference semifinals in four of the last five seasons. They’ve made the playoffs for six

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