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A dam is near failure in Illinois after heavy rains and tornadoes sweep the Midwest
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) – Thunderstorms with heavy rains and possible tornadoes rattled the Chicago area and elsewhere in the Midwest, leaving a dam near failure Tuesday in southern Illinois, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, and even sending weather forecasters scrambling for safety. A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell onto a home. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!French president accepts prime minister’s resignation but keeps him as head of caretaker government
By Sylvie Corbet And Barbara Surk, The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the prime minister’s resignation Tuesday but kept him on as head of a caretaker government, as France prepares to host the Paris Olympics at the end of the month. Macron’s office said in a statement that Macron “accepted” the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and other ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok, with poisoning a possibility
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – Police in Thailand say the bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is a possibility. Investigators said the bodies were foaming at the mouth, an officer from the Lumpini police station said on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release information. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!200 additional Kenyan police arrive in Haiti in UN-backed mission to fight criminal gangs
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrived Tuesday in Haiti to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. The officers arrived nearly a month after the first contingent of 200 landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!200 additional Kenyan police arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. The officers arrived nearly a month after the first contingent of 200 landed in the capital of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli military says it will begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men. That could rattle the government
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military says it will begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday. The announcement follows a landmark Supreme Court order for young religious men to begin enlisting for military services. Under long-standing political arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men had been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!5 killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota scheme
By Julhas Alam, The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
DHAKA, Banglades (AP) – At least 5 people were killed and dozens injured in two separate incidents in Bangladesh as violence continued Tuesday on university campuses in the nation’s capital and elsewhere over a government jobs quota scheme local media reports said quoting officials. At least three of the dead were students and one was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected, police say
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – Police in Thailand say the bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected. Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said in a short statement that the dead were reported to be two Vietnamese Americans and four Vietnamese nationals. They were not identified further. The Thai ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli strikes in southern, central Gaza kill more than 60 Palestinians, including in ‘safe zone’
By Wafaa Shurafa, The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people. The day’s deadliest strike came in the afternoon, hitting near a gas station outside the southern city of Khan ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike has killed 17 Palestinians in a Gaza ‘safe zone’
By Wafaa Shurafa, The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike killed 17 Palestinians on Tuesday in a military-declared “safe zone” outside the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Officials at Nasser Hospital said the strike hit near a gas station in Muwasi, an area packed with tent camps housing thousands of Palestinians who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A rare shooting by multiple attackers in a Shiite mosque in Oman kills 5 and wounds dozens more
By The Associated Press on July 16th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A rare shooting by multiple attackers at a Shiite mosque in Oman killed five people and wounded many more including a police officer, authorities said Tuesday. Pakistan’s government said four of its nationals were dead and 30 hurt. The Royal Oman Police said in a statement mentioned no motive ... Read More »
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