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Officials: 68 sick and injured children leave Gaza in first medical evacuation since early May
By Mohammad Jahjouh, Wafaa Shurafa And Kareem Chehayeb, The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli authorities say 68 sick and injured children and their companions have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the fist medical evacuation since May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down. COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man charged with threatening to kill presidential candidates found dead as jury was deciding verdict
By The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A New Hampshire man charged with threatening the lives of presidential candidates last year has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict, according to court filings Thursday. The jury began weighing the case against Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover on Tuesday after a trial that began Monday. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prague-to-Budapest train collides with a bus in Slovakia, killing 4 people and injuring 5
By The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – A train traveling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and five injured, officials said. More than 100 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man on trial for threatening to kill presidential candidates found dead as jury was deciding verdict
By The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A New Hampshire man on trial for threatening the lives of presidential candidates last year has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict, according to court filings. The jury began weighing the case against Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover on Tuesday after a trial that began Monday. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Train and bus collide in Slovakia, killing 4 people and injuring 5
By The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – A train collided with a bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and five injured, officials said. The accident took place shortly after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) in the town of Nove Zamky, police said. The deaths and injuries were confirmed by Slovakia’s rescue service. Video ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oklahoma executes man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 7-year-old girl in 1984
By Sean Murphy, The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) – Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 7-year-old girl in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m., prison officials said. Rojem had denied responsibility for killing his former ... Read More »
1 responseFormer Chinese defense minister expelled from ruling Communist Party over graft allegations
By The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
BEIJING (AP) – Former Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu was expelled from the ruling Communist Party and is being investigated for corruption and bribery, the official Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. Li was removed from office in October 2023 after disappearing from public view for almost two months. China’s former defense minister Li Shangfu has ... Read More »
1 responseList of threatened species grows by 1,000, but conservation efforts bring hope for some animals
By Taiwo Adebayo, The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction – 1,000 more than last year – according to an international conservation organization that blames pressures from climate change, invasive species and human activity such as illicit trade and infrastructural expansion. The International Union for Conservation of Nature released its latest Red List of Threatened Species on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two candidates drop out of Iran presidential election, due to take place Friday amid voter apathy
By Jon Gambrell And Nasser Karimi, The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Two candidates in Iran’s presidential election withdrew from the race as the country prepared Thursday for the upcoming vote, an effort by hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the polls to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi. Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, 53, dropped his candidacy and urged other ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned huge chunks of forest, spewing far more heat-trapping gas than planes
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press on June 27th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than West Virginia, new research found. Scientists at the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland calculated how devastating the impacts of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bolivian general arrested after apparent failed coup attempt as government faces new crisis
By Paola Flores And Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press on June 26th, 2024
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy,” armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in what the president called a coup attempt, then quickly retreated – the latest crisis in the South American country facing a political battle and an economic crisis. Within hours, the ... Read More »
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