COPENHAGEN — The Danish military said today that it was staying close to a Chinese ship currently sitting idle in Danish waters, days after two fiber-optic data telecommunication
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Trump chooses former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect
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Mike Birch, inaugural winner of Route du Rhum, dies at 90
SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Canadian skipper Mike Birch, who won the Route du Rhum solo trans-Atlantic race by 98 seconds, has died, the event’s organizers
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Residents in Haiti’s capital stand with police in a battle to repel the latest gang attack
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Gangs launched a new attack on Haiti’s capital early Tuesday, targeting an upscale community in Port-au-Prince where gunmen clashed with residents who fought side
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Coast Guard seizes 35 ‘bales’ of cocaine and charges 2 crew members aboard Mexican go-fast boat
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two crew members of a go-fast boat were arrested after a Royal Canadian Naval ship recovered 35 bales of cocaine while patrolling
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Ukraine hits Russia with US ATACMS missiles for first time on war’s 1,000th day
KYIV — Ukraine used U.S. ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory today, taking advantage of newly granted permission from the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden on
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Grenada native gets just 3 months for trafficking 70 pounds of cocaine
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Rodney Dennis de Roche, 39, of Grenada, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Wilma A. Lewis to 37 months imprisonment following his
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Khatia Buniatishvili is a classical music superstar. Her new album honors Mozart — in her own way
NEW YORK (AP) — Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade, but she prefers to keep the chatter
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Tropical Storm Sara expected to disappear within the next 24 hours
MERIDA — Tropical Storm Sara is beginning to weaken the western Caribbean and is now expected to dissipate over the Yucatan in the next 24
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India’s ban on Salman Rushdie ‘The Satanic Verses’ may end — thanks to missing paperwork
NEW DELHI (AP) — The decades-long ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change
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