Articles filed under Associated Press
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Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so farJan 03, 2024 6:55 am - Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukra...
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Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strikeJan 03, 2024 6:54 am - BEIRUT — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no ...
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Rescuers race against time in search for survivors in Japan after powerful quakes leave 73 deadJan 03, 2024 6:50 am - SUZU, Japan — Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister...
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Iran says at least 95 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain generalJan 03, 2024 6:48 am - TEHRAN, Iran — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Ira...
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Warren Buffett, James Simons and Phil Knight are among the top charity donors of 2023Jan 02, 2024 3:35 pm - The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled more than $3.5 billion in 2023. Four univers...
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimonyJan 02, 2024 1:27 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where sh...
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States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity after Iran attacks small town water utilitiesJan 02, 2024 11:24 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had out...
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Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blastJan 02, 2024 11:12 am - BEIRUT — An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Le...
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A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven DoeJan 02, 2024 8:58 am - Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The ...
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Finland and Sweden set this winter's cold records as temperature plummets below minus 40Jan 02, 2024 8:10 am - HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden recorded the coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday as thermometers plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a res...