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Police say 11 inmates killed in shootouts following breakout from prison in central Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Inmates broke out of a prison in the coastal town of Saint-Marc in central Haiti on Friday, police said, as authorities in the country struggle to quell…

John McCarthy August 17, 2024

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Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire

KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia has started a fire on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such facility in Europe. It…

John McCarthy August 11, 2024

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Successful Ukrainian incursion highlights Russia’s border weakness

MOSCOW — Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 12 miles (20 km) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine's biggest attack on…

John McCarthy August 11, 2024

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Coast Guard works to change its culture following sexual abuse, harassment scandal

NEW LONDON, Connecticut (AP) — The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, has been revamped this year in light of…

John McCarthy August 10, 2024

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Russia offers little resistance to Ukrainian troops after shock incursion

MOSCOW — Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day today after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's…

John McCarthy August 8, 2024

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American missionary in Haiti: ‘I feel like a sitting duck ready to be shot’

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Private security guards watch the premises and a 12-foot wall protects the sprawling solar-powered Miracle Village in Fond-Parisien, where a self-defense citizens’ brigade patrols the town’s blocked and…

John McCarthy August 7, 2024

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A rocket attack at an Iraqi military base injures US personnel, officials tell AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said Monday, in what has been a recent…

John McCarthy August 6, 2024

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Defense secretary revokes plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters

WASHINGTON — In a startling reversal of a decision made just 48 hours earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals reached with three accused plotters of the September 11,…

John McCarthy August 4, 2024

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About half of US state AGs went on France trip sponsored by group with lobbyist and corporate funds

PARIS (AP) — About half the U.S. state attorneys general traveled to France in a trip cosponsored by a group mostly funded by companies, including some under scrutiny of the top state…

John McCarthy August 3, 2024

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US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro

CARACAS (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on…

John McCarthy August 1, 2024