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China’s chief epidemiologist Wu Zunyou who helped drive the anti-COVID fight dies at age 60
By The Associated Press on October 27th, 2023
BEIJING (AP) – Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive anti-COVID-19 measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes has died on Friday. He was 60. An announcement from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention about Wu’s death gave no cause, but said that “rescue measures failed.” The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days
By Wafaa Shurafa And Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press on October 27th, 2023
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli forces backed by fighter jets and drones carried out a second ground raid into Gaza in as many days and struck targets on the outskirts of Gaza City, the military said Friday, as it prepares for a widely expected ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory. U.S. warplanes meanwhile ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fearful Maine residents stay home amid massive search for suspect in killing of 18 people
By David Sharp, Robert Bumsted, Holly Ramer And Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) – Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night Thursday as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US fighter jets strike Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. fighter jets launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against U.S. bases and personnel in the region that began early last week. The U.S. strikes reflect the Biden administration’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli troops briefly raid northern Gaza to ‘prepare’ for an expected full-scale incursion
By Najib Jobain, Kareem Chehayeb And Amy Teibel, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion. The third Israeli raid since the war began came after more than two weeks of devastating airstrikes that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US strikes Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against U.S. bases and personnel in the region that began early last week. The U.S. strikes reflect the Biden administration’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Heavily armed police surround home in search for suspect in the fatal shooting of 18 in Maine
By David Sharp, Robert Bumsted, Holly Ramer And Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) – Heavily armed police surrounded a home Thursday as they searched for a U.S. Army reservist who authorities say killed 18 people and wounded 13 in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine. “You need to come outside now with nothing in your hands. Your hands ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police surround home in search for suspect in the fatal shooting of 18 in Maine
By David Sharp, Robert Bumsted, Holly Ramer And Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) – Heavily armed police surrounded a home Thursday as they searched for a U.S. Army reservist who authorities say killed 18 people and wounded 13 in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine. “You need to come outside now with nothing in your hands. Your hands ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Radio host Larry Elder ends Republican presidential campaign and endorses Donald Trump
By The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he was ending his 2024 Republican campaign for president and endorsing former President Donald Trump. Elder, who sought to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a failed 2021 recall effort, said in a statement that he had made the “difficult decision” to end his bid after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wife of ex-Alaska Airlines pilot says she’s in shock after averted Horizon Air disaster
By Claire Rush, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The wife of a former Alaska Airlines pilot who police say tried to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight while riding in the cockpit jump seat said Thursday she knew her husband was struggling with depression but that she was in a state of shock over his arrest. “This ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MarÃa Corina Machado is winner of Venezuela opposition primary that the government has denounced
By Regina Garcia Cano, The Associated Press on October 26th, 2023
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan government critic MarÃa Corina Machado was declared the winner Thursday of an opposition-organized primary to choose a presidential candidate, in polling last weekend that was denounced by the self-proclaimed socialist government as illegitimate. The voting Sunday organized by the National Primary Commission drew more than 2.4 million voters in Venezuela ... Read More »
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