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Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza
By Wafaa Shurafa And Samy Magdy, The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Health authorities begin large-scale polio vaccinations in war-ravaged Gaza
By The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Russia says it downed over 150 drones, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks of the war
By The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
The Russian Ministry of Defense said air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 158 drones overnight into Sunday, including two over the city of Moscow and nine over the surrounding Moscow region. Forty-six were over the Kursk region, where Ukraine has sent its forces in recent weeks in the largest incursion onto Russian soil since World ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israel recovers the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin
By Josef Federman, The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel on Sunday said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including a young Israeli-American man who became one of the most well-known captives held by Hamas as his parents met with world leaders and pressed for his release, including at the Democratic convention last month. The news sparked ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli army identifies bodies of 6 Gaza hostages and says they were killed before being rescued
By Josef Federman, The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military has identified the bodies of six hostages recovered from a tunnel in the Gaza Strip and says their militant captors killed them shortly before Israeli forces could rescue them. The army identified them as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; and Alexander Lobanov, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family confirms death of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
By The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin says he has been killed in the Gaza Strip. The family issued a statement early Sunday, hours after the Israeli army said it had located bodies in Gaza. “With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mississippi bus crash kills 7 people and injures 37
By The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
BOVINA, Miss. (AP) – Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday morning, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza a day before an expected pause in fighting
By Associated Press (by Julia Frankel, Samy Magdy And Sam Metz), The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, as Palestinians in both the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel’s ongoing military offensives. Children in Gaza began receiving vaccines, the health ministry told a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!7 US troops hurt in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Islamic State group militants that killed 15
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press on August 30th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Seven American troops were hurt in a joint raid with Iraqi commandos targeting the Islamic State group, the United States military told The Associated Press on Saturday. Five were wounded in the operation, a U.S. military official told the AP, while two others were hurt in falls. The official ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dallas officer killed and 2 wounded by man who targeted police, chief says
By Jamie Stengle, The Associated Press on August 30th, 2024
DALLAS (AP) – A man accused of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer and wounding two others was targeting police, the police chief said Friday. “Our officers were targeted for nothing more than the uniform they wear and for the brave and honorable job that they do,” Chief Eddie Garcia said during a news conference. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Measures to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska can appear on November ballot, official says
By Margery A. Beck, The Associated Press on August 30th, 2024
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A group seeking to legalize marijuana for medical use in Nebraska has gathered enough signatures to get the issue before voters in November, the state’s top election official said Friday. Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana announced earlier this year that it had gathered about 114,000 signatures – well more than the approximately ... Read More »
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