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Chinese state media say 20 people dead and 24 missing after landslide
By The Associated Press on January 23rd, 2024
BEIJING (AP) – Twenty people are confirmed dead and 24 remain missing after a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. on Monday in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan. Authorities resumed search and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!California State University faculty reach tentative contract agreement and will end strike
By Olga R. Rodriguez, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – California State university faculty members reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, the same day that nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches and other workers struck at the nation’s largest public university system, their union announced. Members of the California Faculty Association will return to work Tuesday instead of continuing their planned weeklong ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!21 Israeli soldiers are killed in the deadliest single attack on the army since the war began
By Josef Federman And Najib Jobain, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli army said Tuesday that 21 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in the deadliest attack on its forces of the 3-month-old war against the militant Hamas group. The reservists were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings in central Gaza on Monday when a militant fired a rocket-propelled grenade at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!10 Israeli soldiers killed in one of the deadliest single attacks on its army since the war began
By Josef Federman And Najib Jobain, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli army said Tuesday that 10 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in one of the deadliest attacks for Israeli soldiers of the 3-month-old war against the militant Hamas group. Israeli media say the soldiers were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings in central Gaza on Monday when a militant ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!10 soldiers killed in Gaza in one of the deadliest attacks of the 3-month war, Israeli military says
By Josef Federman And Najib Jobain, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military says 10 soldiers were killed in an attack in central Gaza. It is one of the deadliest single incidents in the three-month war against Hamas that erupted after the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack into Israel. Israeli media say the soldiers were preparing explosives to demolish two homes in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suspect in killing of 8 people in suburban Chicago has fatally shot himself in Texas, police say
By Kathleen Foody And Todd Richmond, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) – A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago is believed to have fatally shot himself after a confrontation with Texas law enforcement officials, police said late Monday. Police in Joliet said on Facebook that at about 8:30 p.m. central time 23-year-old Romeo Nance was located by US Marshals ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!7.1 magnitude earthquake rattles part of western China, injuring 6 people and collapsing 47 homes
By The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
BEIJING (AP) – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring six people and damaging or collapsing more than 120 homes in freezing cold weather, authorities said. The quake was the latest in a series of seismic events and natural disasters to hit the vast country’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!7.1-magnitude earthquake rattles part of western China, injuring 6 people and collapsing 47 homes
By The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
BEIJING (AP) – Authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region say six people were injured and more than 120 houses were damaged or destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake. The government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region posted on its official Weibo account that two were seriously injured and four had minor injuries. In addition, 47 houses ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Authorities searching for suspect in shooting deaths of 8 people over 2 days in suburban Chicago
By The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) – A man shot and killed 8 people at three locations since Sunday in the Chicago suburbs and remains loose, Illinois authorities said Monday. Police in Joliet and Will counties said they did not know of a motive for the killings. Authorities said the man knows the victims. The victims were found Sunday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US, British militaries team up again to bomb sites in Yemen used by Iran-backed Houthis
By Lolita C. Baldor And Tara Copp, The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory strikes on an array of the rebels’ missile-launching capabilities, several U.S. officials said. According to officials, the U.S. and U.K. used warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes remote western China, state media say
By The Associated Press on January 22nd, 2024
BEIJING (AP) – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying the quake rocked Wushu county in Aksu prefecture shortly after 2 a.m. local time. There were no immediate reports of damage or fatalities. ... Read More »
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