CARACAS, Venezuela – Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has begun a hunger strike and is calling for a mass anti-government protest next weekend. The former Caracas area mayor accused authorities in a video leaked to news media on Saturday of killing dozens of people during 2014 protests. More than 40 …
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s defense minister is blaming Islamic Jihad — a smaller Palestinian militant group in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip — for the latest rocket fired at Israel that drew retaliatory airstrikes overnight. Moshe Yaalon says the airstrikes targeted both Islamic Jihad and Hamas sites in Gaza early on Wednesday, …
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UNITED NATIONS – Lithuania’s foreign minister says his government wants a NATO battalion deployed permanently in the country as a “security guarantee” — not a provocation against Russia which has stepped up military action in the Baltic states. Linas Linkevicius said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press that …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico is preparing to overhaul its heavily indebted public power company as the U.S. territory’s government faces a July deadline to approve a new budget and make a roughly $400 million payment to the utility’s investors amid growing concerns that public agencies could go …
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UFC star Sean Strickland took former MMA fighter Paige VanZant to task on social media after she revealed she makes more money from her OnlyFans account than she did fighting. Strickland, the UFC middleweight champion, who is on a three-fight winning streak, wrote three reasons why VanZant was rolling in …
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Erica Herman, the ex-girlfriend of Tiger Woods, dropped her sexual assault lawsuit and NDA appeal against the legendary golfer. Herman wrote that she “was never a victim of sexual harassment or sexual abuse at the hands of Tiger Woods or any of his agents and it is her position that …
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The Louvre Museumhas acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France. The Louvre announced the acquisition of the masterpiece titled “Christ Mocked,” which is attributed to the Italian painter …
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With just two weeks left of the 2023 college football season, there is still potential for absolute chaos in the College Football Playoff (CFP). With each of the Power Five conferences having one team – and some two – that can make a case for the CFP this late in …
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A “decades-old” plane crash site that had stumped Canadian authorities turned out to be a prop used for training by members of Canada’s Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (Casara). Canadian investigators were left stumped after a hunter in British Columbia stumbled upon the remains of an apparent plane crash …
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The Patriots’ season continues in turmoil, as rookie kicker Chad Ryland missed a 35-yard, game-tying field goal and New England fell to the New York Giants, 10-7, on Sunday. Head coach Bill Belichick dealt with quarterback troubles all game long, as he started the game with Mac Jones under center …
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