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Hurricane Beryl is ‘even stronger’ as it churns toward Jamaica after devastating Windward
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Hurricane Beryl roared across the Windward Islands on Monday as an extremely dangerous Category 4, leaving at least one person dead as it delivered catastrophic winds, intense rainfall and life-threatening storm…
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Hurricane Beryl, now Category 4, has Jamaica in its path; potential for Tropical Storm
Beryl became the season’s first major hurricane on Sunday, reaching Category 4 strength as it approached the Caribbean with winds topping 130 mph, forecasters said.Beryl has strengthened rapidly since forming and is likely to bring “life-threatening winds and storm surge” on its approach to the far eastern Caribbean early Monday, according to…
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Carville predicted Biden would drop out. A campaign message invoked him anyway.
James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist known as the “Ragin’ Cajun,” said in an interview published Saturday that he does not think President Biden will be on the ticket come Election Day. But hours after the story was published, the Biden campaign sent a fundraising message invoking his name.“Hi, it’s James Carville. I need you and…
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Haiti PM travels to US as Kenyan police patrol capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille left Port-au-Prince on Friday to travel to Washington and New York, as freshly deployed Kenyan police officers began patrolling the city as part of a U.N.-backed mission to battle armed gangs that have taken over the capital.Conille's office said he would travel with Foreign…
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Assange plea came after warning that U.S. would lose extradition fight
On April 4, a Justice Department attorney in Europe sent a dire message to colleagues back home: Their five-year battle to bring Julian Assange from Britain to the United States to stand trial for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic and military files was likely to fail.If a deal was not made with the WikiLeaks founder before a…
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Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt fails, general taken into
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt, but President Luis Arce vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand down. Soon the soldiers pulled back, along with a line of military vehicles,…
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Off Gaza’s coast, truckloads of aid roll off a US military pier – only to remain
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After a series of mishaps, trucks of humanitarian aid are now beginning to roll onto the US military pier off the Gaza coast at a steadier pace.
But enormous problems still loom…
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Julian Assange agrees to plea deal with Biden administration that will allow him to avoid
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material, as part of a deal with the Justice Department that will allow him to avoid imprisonment in…
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More than a dozen killed in synagogue, church attacks in Russia’s Dagestan
Civilians and a priest also among the dead as gunmen attack religious buildings in Derbent, and a Makhachkala police post.More than 15 policemen and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, have been killed after gunmen in the Russian republic of Dagestan opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue, and a police post, authorities…
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Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza City, authorities say
Israeli airstrikes on four neighborhoods in Gaza City killed at least 38 people Saturday, the Gaza civil defense force said, adding that rescue crews were continuing to search for more dead and wounded in the rubble.The bombardment hit residential buildings in the city’s north, south, east and west, with significant damage and a massive crater…
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