43 h. ago Peru to declare state of emergency after protests against new president leave one dead and dozens injured

Demonstrators clashed with police outside congress building amid public anger at crime crisis days after José Jerí assumed power Peru is set to declare a state of emergency after at least one person was killed and dozens of police officers were injured in widespread protests against President José Jerí who assumed power just days ago.Prime minister Ernesto Alvarez said late on Thursday that the government would declare the state of emergency in Lima within hours and is preparing a package of measures to tackle rising insecurity. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Venezuela floated a plan for Maduro to slowly give up power, but was rejected by US, AP source says

Venezuelan government officials floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas

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4 d. ago 5th arrest made in connection with shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says

The FBI said a fifth person has been arrested in a weekend shooting in Mississippi that left six people dead and more than a dozen injured

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5 d. ago Deadly power struggle begins in Gaza with dozens killed in clashes as Hamas scrambles to fight off clans and retain control of the strip

A deadly struggle for power has begun in Gaza that has left dozens dead in clashes between Hamas and its bitter rivals. 

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8 d. ago Tennessee explosion: dozens missing and multiple feared dead after huge blast at munitions factory

The blast could be heard up to 10 miles from the factory and debris fell into the garden of a home four miles away

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8 d. ago Trump completes ‘semiannual’ physical before traveling to Middle East

White House had described doctor visit as ‘routine yearly checkup’ although president had annual physical in AprilUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump – the oldest person ever to be elected US president – had what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at the Walter Reed national military medical center on Friday.The visit, which the White House announced earlier this week, comes as Trump is preparing to travel to the Middle East on the heels of a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, described it as a “routine yearly checkup”, although the president had his annual physical in April. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump health update as White House confirms President's hospital visit

In a statement, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed the President is set to visit Walter Reed Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland

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1 week ago Ghislaine Maxwell's final bid for freedom crushed as court makes dramatic decision

Jeffrey Epstein's 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell has lost her final appeal after the Supreme Court refuses to hear her case, leaving a presidential pardon from her pal Donald Trump as her only hope of an early release

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1 week ago AP reader question: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown?

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown

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1 week ago US supreme court declines to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of sex

Jeffrey Epstein associate was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and related crimesThe US supreme court has declined to hear an appeal from the Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell of her sex-trafficking conviction.The decision brings an end to Maxwell’s legal effort to have her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges overturned – and leaves presidential clemency as her only option for early release from a 20-year prison sentence handed to her in 2022. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Protesters rally in Quito as Ecuador declares state of emergency in 10 provinces

Protesters both for and against Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa have rallied in the capital Quito

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1 week ago ‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has becomeBatool Abu Akleen was having lunch in the seaside apartment that has become the latest refuge for her family of seven, when a missile struck a nearby cafe. It was the last day of June, an ordinary Monday in Gaza City. “I was holding a falafel wrap and looking out of the window, and the window shook,” she says. Within an instant, dozens of men, women and children were dead, in an atrocity that was reported around the world. “It doesn’t feel real sometimes,” she adds, with the nonchalance of someone numbed by living with horror.But this impression is misleading. At just 20 years old, Abu Akleen is becoming one of Gaza’s most vivid and unstinting witnesses, whose debut poetry collection has already won accolades from the novelist Anne Michaels, the playw...

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2 w. ago Philippines earthquake: dozens dead as rescuers search through wreckage

Rescuers search for casualties in coastal city of Bogo, where power was knocked out and buildings and roads damagedThe death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to 26, authorities said, with fears the toll could rise as rescuers searched for survivors from Tuesday night’s quake which damaged buildings and roads and knocked out power in parts of the region.The epicentre of the earthquake, which was set off by a local fault, was about 17km (10 miles) north-east of Bogo, a coastal city of about 90,000 people in Cebu province where at least 14 residents died, disaster-mitigation officer Rex Ygot told the Associated Press by telephone. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Three dead and dozens trapped under rubble after Indonesia school collapse

Rescuers said they spotted corpses under the rubble but were focused on saving those who were still alive

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2 w. ago Frantic rescue as school collapses leaving at least one student dead and dozens trapped under the rubble in Indonesia

A SCHOOL packed with students crumbled without warning in Indonesia, leaving dozens trapped and sparking a frantic rescue operation. At least 99 students were injured and one 13-year-old boy has been confirmed dead after the prayer hall at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo collapsed. Officials say 65 more students - mostly boys aged...

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2 w. ago Farmer finds dozens of sheep dead and bumper crop of acorns is blamed

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2 w. ago Deadly super storm with 83mph winds leaves nine dead and dozens missing as typhoon Bualoi hits Vietnam

A DEADLY super storm packing 83mph winds smashed into Vietnam, killing nine people, leaving dozens missing and forcing mass evacuations. Typhoon Bualoi made landfall just after midnight on Monday in Ha Tinh province, ripping off roofs, toppling power poles and flooding highways. Authorities had already evacuated 28,500 people, grounded fishing fleets and shut down four...

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2 w. ago Putin pounds Kyiv with unprecedented drone and missile blitz leaving at least 3 dead as Poland scrambles jets

VLADIMIR Putin has launched one of the biggest missile and drone blitzes of the war so far on the Ukrainian capital - leaving at least three dead and dozens wounded. Swarms of drones were launched across several Ukrainian regions - before turning toward the Kyiv region and the capital. Drones flew over the city, and...

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2 w. ago Putin pounds Kyiv with 500 drones & 40 missiles in one of biggest attacks of war killing 4 as Nato scrambles jets

RUSSIAN forces launched one of the biggest air attacks of the war so far in Ukraine - leaving at least four dead and dozens wounded. Swarms of drones and a barrage of missiles were fired across several Ukrainian regions - before turning towards capital Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Putin's forces launched 500 drones...

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3 w. ago Pharmacist explains exactly why Donald Trump is WRONG over idiotic MMR vaccine claims

Donald Trump's comments on the MMR vaccine have been branded 'dangerous' by a top TV pharmacist, who said following the US president's advice could leave children 'vulnerable to dangerous diseases'

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