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Unions in Greece call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts 04/17/2024 09:04am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere Wednesday. The General Confederation of Greek Labor, GSEE, led the strikes to pr Death toll from 4 days of rains rises to 63 in Pakistan with more rain on the forecast 04/17/2024 06:48am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country's southwestern coast. Flash floods have also kil First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump's hush money criminal trial, with 11 more still needed 04/17/2024 06:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — The first seven jurors for Donald Trump's hush money trial were seated Tuesday after lawyers grilled the jury pool about their social media posts, political views and personal lives to decide who can sit in fair judgment of the former president. The panelists who were selected a Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games 04/17/2024 04:43am • PARIS (AP) — In Paris' outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That's because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris Paris 2024: Roster of more than 10,000 Olympians is still forming, but trials await for thousands 04/17/2024 04:29am • The names have been trickling in, one or two at a time. Over the next two months, that trickle will turn into a flood. By the time the festivities begin in Paris on July 26, some 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries will be able to call themselves 2024 Olympians. From archery to wrestling, e Storm dumps heaviest rain ever recorded in desert nation of UAE, flooding roads and Dubai's airport 04/17/2024 01:00am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and Dubai's international airport. The state-run WAM news agency called the r Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson's plan for US aid to Ukraine, allies uncertain 04/16/2024 11:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office. “I am not resigning,” Jo No injuries when small plane lands in sprawling park in middle of Hawaii's Waikiki tourist mecca 04/16/2024 11:46pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A small plane landed in a sprawling Honolulu park Tuesday and the two people on board were not injured, officials said. The plane “lost power and landed safely” in Kapiolani Park, in the heart of tourist-mecca Waikiki, said Scott Humber, a spokesperson for the city of Honolulu Ghost guns are already illegal in Maryland. Sharing the tech and instructions behind them isn’t — for now 04/16/2024 11:02pm • Ghost guns — untraceable firearms usually put together by someone using unassembled or homemade components — are already illegal in Maryland. Nonetheless, they’ve been used in some high profile crimes in Prince George’s County in recent years, including several that involve juveniles. The Latest | UN chief calls for `urgent de-escalation' in the Middle East 04/16/2024 10:34pm • U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for “urgent de-escalation” of hostilities in the Middle East. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that Guterres made the comments during a phone conversation with Iran’s foreign minister following Tehran’s weekend attack on Israel. Venezuela closes its embassy in Ecuador to protest the police raid on the Mexican Embassy there 04/16/2024 09:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. Maduro and other presidents participating in Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown 04/16/2024 08:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a New York bodega where a man was stabbed to death, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Joe Biden for crime. 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