Nation and World
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At Camp David, Biden aims to nudge Japan and South Korea toward greater unity in complicated Pacific
Aug 17, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden aims to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations that have struggled to stay on speaking te...
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First major jihadi attack since coup kills 17 and wounds dozens in Niger, fueling Western fears
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - NIAMEY, Niger - Insurgents killed 17 soldiers and wounded nearly 24 in the first major attack in half a year against the army in Niger, where Western powers fear a coup ...
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Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - MARION, Kansas - A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material sho...
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Ex-FBI counterintelligence official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for helping Russian oligarch
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired,...
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Small Minnesota town will be without police after chief and officers resign, citing low pay
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - GOODHUE, Minn. - A small Minnesota town will soon be without a police department, an exodus spurred by low pay for the chief and his officers. Goodhue Police Chief Josh ...
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Offshore drilling rig arrives in Lebanese waters ahead of work near the border with Israel
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - BEIRUT - An offshore drilling rig arrived at its destination in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon's coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas...
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Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuania on Wednesday decided to temporarily close two of its six checkpoints with Belarus later this week amid growing tensions with its eastern n...
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Russia hits Ukrainian grain depots again as a foreign ship tries out Kyiv's new Black Sea corridor
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport rout...
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Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - NEW ORLEANS - New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wedn...
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Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families
Aug 16, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under considerat...