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3 people killed and 9 injured in hangar collapse on grounds of Boise, Idaho, airport
By The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A hangar under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, killing three people and injuring another nine, officials said. Five of those injured in the collapse at the Boise Airport are in critical condition, the city said in a statement released Wednesday night. Authorities responded at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!About a dozen people hurt in hangar collapse on grounds of Boise airport, officials say
By The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A hanger under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, injuring about a dozen people, officials said. Authorities responded at about 5 p.m. to a private business located at the Boise Airport for a steel framed hangar that collapsed, Boise Fire Department Operations Chief Aaron Hummel ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Multiple people hurt in building collapse near airport in Boise, Idaho, fire officials say
By The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Multiple people have been hurt after a building collapsed Wednesday in Boise, Idaho, fire officials said. Emergency responders were at scene of the reported building collapse near the Boise Airport at West Rickenbacker and Luke streets, the Boise Fire Department said in a post on X Wednesday afternoon. Search and rescue ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top UN court rejects most of Ukraine’s terror financing and discrimination case against Russia
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday rejected large parts of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in the country’s east a decade ago and has discriminated against Crimea’s multiethnic community since its annexation of the peninsula. The International Court of Justice ruled that Moscow ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Russia and Ukraine swap scores of POWs despite tensions over a plane crash last week
By The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces. After the Jan. 24 crash of the Il-76 plane in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Russia says it has swapped 195 POWs with Ukraine
By The Associated Press on January 31st, 2024
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s Defense Ministry says Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 195 prisoners of war each. The Russian Defense Ministry said the swap was conducted on Wednesday. The announcement came a week after Russia alleged that Ukrainian forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issue
By Lisa Mascaro And Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press on January 30th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue. The Homeland Security Committee debated all day Tuesday and well into the night to recommend ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 14-year prison sentence in third conviction
By The Associated Press on January 30th, 2024
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan of leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. The latest conviction and sentencing were Khan’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption
By The Associated Press on January 30th, 2024
ISLAMABAD (AP) – A Pakistani court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison for corruption, prison officials said, a day after another special court convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. Khan and his wife are accused of retaining and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption
By The Associated Press on January 30th, 2024
ISLAMABAD (AP) – A Pakistani court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison for corruption, a day after another special court convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence. Khan and his wife are accused of retaining and selling state gifts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli forces dressed as civilian women and medics kill 3 militants in a West Bank hospital
By Aref Tufaha, Melanie Lidman And Wafaa Shurafa, The Associated Press on January 30th, 2024
JENIN, West Bank (AP) – Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medics stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly violence has spilled into the territory from the war in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile ruled out a military withdrawal ... Read More »
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