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Monday, September 25, 2023

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is welcomed Friday at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters, where he was felicitated a day after the women’s reservation bill was passed by the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

India had been riding a geopolitical high. But it comes to the UN with a mess on its hands

The Group of 20 Summit, hosted by India earlier this month, couldn't have gone better for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge to make the African Union a permanent member became reality. And under his leadership, the fractured grouping signed off on a final statement. It was seen as a foreign policy triumph for Modi and set the tone for India as a great emerging power.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens to an impromptu rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem at an event Friday including members of the Ukrainian-Canadian community in TorontoZelenskyy was traveling home from North America, where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly and paid his first wartime visit to Canada.

Russian airstrikes kill 2 and wound 3 in southern Ukraine as war enters 20th month

Russian airstrikes on Sunday killed two people and wounded three others in southern Ukraine's Kherson province, the region's governor reported Sunday as the war in Ukraine entered a 20th month.
Palestinians inspect a damaged building Sunday following an Israeli army raid in Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank2. Palestinians said at least two people were killed in the raid, which the army said was carried out to destroy a militant command center and bomb-storage facility in the building.

Israeli military raid kills 2 Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel says its troops came under fire

Two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid Sunday in the northern West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, the latest bloodshed in a surge of violence during a sensitive Jewish holiday period.
A Kosovo police officer guards the road Sunday near the village of Banjska, 35 miles north of the capital Pristina, Kosovo. Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties.

Masked gunmen attack Kosovo police and kill 1 officer in an escalation of tensions with Serbia

Kosovo's prime minister on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties.
The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street in Lahaina, Hawaii. Soon after Lahaina Hongwanji Mission burned in a wildfire that decimated much of the historic coastal town, the Japanese Buddhist temple’s resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained. Now, he’s more hesitant. The Rev. Ai Hironaka and other Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the “burn zone.”
Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished in Lahaina wildfire 7 weeks ago
From just outside the burn zone in Lahaina, Jes Claydon can see the ruins of the rental home where she lived for 13 years and raised three children. Little remains recognizable beyond the jars of sea glass that stood outside the front door.
President Joe Biden meets Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York. Biden was in New York to address the 78th United Nations General Assembly.
The Biden administration is poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the US without a US visa
The Biden administration is poised to admit Israel this week into an exclusive club that will allow its citizens to travel to the United States without a U.S. visa despite Washington's ongoing concerns about the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinian Americans.
Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen from the tops of buildings and from station wagons in the area around Pruitt-Igoe in the 1950s and 1960s as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Deanes and Phillips are leading an effort to get government compensation.
Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used blowers on top of buildings and in the backs of station wagons to spray a potential carcinogen into the air surrounding a St. Louis housing project where most residents were Black. The government contends the zinc cadmium sulfide sprayed to simulate what would happen in a biological weapons attack was harmless.
Busts of Neanderthal and hominids line a table at the studio of paleoartist John Gurche in Trumansburg, New York. Along with more fossils and artifacts, DNA findings are pointing us to a challenging idea: We’re not so special. For most of human history we shared the planet with other kinds of early humans — and those now-extinct groups were a lot like us.
Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans
Researchers have gained the power to pull DNA from ancient hominins, including our early ancestors and other relatives who walked on two legs. Ancient DNA technology has revolutionized the way we study human history and has quickly taken off, with a constant stream of studies exploring the genes of long-ago people.
A U.S. Air Force officer checks pallets of 155 mm shells bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. Social media posts falsely claim that the U.S. accidentally sent Ukraine $6 billion in military aid.
Facts Matter: Military didn't mistakenly send an extra $6 billion to Ukraine
In this week's Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald explores claims that the U.S. military mistakenly sent $6 billion to Ukraine, singer Beyoncé has been banned by the NFL and more.
Kim Larson, who works at the Belvidere Assembly Plant, pickets Friday with other members of the United Auto Workers outside the Chrysler Parts Distribution plant in Naperville.
Strikes against automakers spread to 38 locations, including Naperville
The president of the United Auto Workers said Friday the union will expand its strike against major automakers by walking out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis plants in 20 states.
This image provided by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in New York, shows two of the gold bars found during a search by federal agents of Sen. Bob Menendez’s home and safe deposit box. Menendez of New Jersey and his wife were indicted Friday on charges that they took bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car for a range of corrupt acts, including having the Democrat use his influence over foreign affairs to benefit the authoritarian government of Egypt.
Sen. Menendez, wife indicted on bribe charges as probe finds $100,000 in gold bars, prosecutors say
Sen. Bob Menendez was charged Friday with secretly aiding the authoritarian regime of Egypt and trying to thwart the criminal prosecution of a friend in exchange for gold bars and cash as prosecutors unsealed a corruption indictment that accuses him of using his foreign affairs influence for personal gain.
During the equinox, the Earth’s axis and its orbit line up so that both hemispheres get an equal amount of sunlight.
The fall equinox is here. What does that mean?
The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. But what does that actually mean? Here's what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth's orbit.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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