Articles filed under Politics
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China announces the removal of defense minister missing for almost 2 months with little explanationOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - TAIPEI. Taiwan - China has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months, state media reported Tuesday. No further inf...
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A court in Kenya has extended orders barring the deployment of police to Haiti for 2 more weeksOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya - A court in Kenya has extended orders blocking the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti to lead a U.N. Security Council-approved mission to combat gang v...
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Burying friends, updating death lists: The morbid routine of displaced survivors of a Hamas massacreOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - EIN BOKEK, Israel - For evacuees of Kibbutz Be'eri, the salty waters of the lowest point on earth, known for their healing powers, are little comfort for a grief that fe...
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4 suspected North Korean defectors found in a small boat in South Korean watersOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea - Four North Koreans were found in a small wooden boat in South Korean waters on Tuesday in what is likely a rare case of North Koreans taking a risky...
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A top Chinese diplomat will visit Washington ahead of a possible meeting between Biden and XiOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - Washington - China's top diplomat will come to the United States on Thursday for a three-day visit, the latest move by Washington and Beijing to keep high-level talks op...
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Israel launches 400 strikes across Gaza, where health officials say hundreds of Palestinians killedOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - RAFAH, Gaza Strip - A barrage of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday crushed multiple residential buildings and buried families under rubble, as health o...
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Stranded at a closed border as bombs fall, foreign nationals in besieged Gaza await evacuationOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip's lan...
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Americans learned a financial-crisis lesson. Washington did not.Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - Congress and the Biden administration seem unaware that rising interest rates are about as "transitory" as they told us inflation would be - meaning, likely to be around...
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Hail to a chief: the president overrides the kindergartenOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - The narrative that President Joe Biden is too old to be president isn't holding up all that well, taking more than a few hits in recent months. Biden's arduous secret tr...
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Democratic challenger outraised Rep. Foster in third quarter - but can he win?Oct 23, 2023 5:30 am - A Naperville human rights lawyer who's challenging U.S. Rep. Bill Foster in the 2024 Democratic primary for Illinois' 11th Congressional District seat narrowly outraised...