Nation and World
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Germany’s Scholz loses confidence vote, setting up an election in February
Dec 16, 2024 9:41 am - Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in late February.
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France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido
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Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians, dies at 73
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Mystery drone sightings keep happening in New Jersey. Here’s what we know, and don’t know
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US officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that ousted Assad, Blinken says
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Storms encase Iowa and eastern Nebraska in ice and generate rare tornado warning in San Francisco
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Assad lived in quiet luxury while Syrians went hungry
Dec 14, 2024 12:45 am - Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and roc...
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Court denies TikTok’s request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
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New Jersey governor wants more federal resources for probe into drone sightings
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Trump calls for ending daylight saving time. It’s ‘inconvenient,’ he says.