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Belarus sends children from occupied Ukraine for training with Belarusian army 01/10/2024 10:19am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus state television reported Wednesday that authorities sent a recently arrived group of Ukrainian children from occupied Ukraine to train with the Belarusian military to learn how to evacuate in the event of a fire. Ukraine and the Belarusian opposition allege that R Cesarean deliveries surge in Puerto Rico, reaching a record rate in the US territory, report says 01/10/2024 07:35am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cesareans are surging in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has one of the world’s highest rates with more than 50% of babies now delivered via surgery compared with only 32% on the U.S. mainland, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The rates of c AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says 01/10/2024 07:34am • LONDON (AP) — False and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence that threatens to erode democracy and polarize society is the top immediate risk to the global economy, the World Economic Forum said in a report Wednesday. In its latest Global Risks Report, the Pakistani leader calls for global unity to fight diseases and emergencies caused by climate change 01/10/2024 05:45am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation. Representatives from 70 countries, the World Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies 01/10/2024 03:41am • LONDON (AP) — More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet's population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news. The year looks set to test even the most robust democracies and to strengthen the hands As DeSantis and Haley face off in Iowa GOP debate, urgency could spark fireworks 01/10/2024 12:26am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Just two Republican presidential candidates, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will meet on the debate stage Wednesday night. With just five days before the Iowa caucuses, the debate may be their last, best chance to change the trajectory of Israel taps top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to battle genocide claim at world court 01/10/2024 12:06am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The robust engagement with the International Court of Justice is unusual for Israel, which normally Armed attack during live broadcast at Ecuadorian TV station. What's behind the spiraling violence? 01/10/2024 12:00am • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country's spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanish Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate 01/09/2024 10:58pm • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a decree declaring that the violence-plagued country had entered an “internal armed conflict.” The men armed wi Live updates | Blinken presses Israel on Gaza’s postwar future as Lebanon border clashes escalate 01/09/2024 09:50pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in Tel Aviv and, after meeting with top leaders Tuesday, said Israel must do more to lessen the Gaza war's toll on civilians and said Washington rejects any proposal for settling Palestinians outside the territory. Hundreds of people have been killed i Firefighters investigate role of gas in explosion at historic Texas hotel that injured 21 01/09/2024 09:44pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Fire investigators said Tuesday they have still not determined what caused an explosion at a historic Texas hotel that plunged two stories of debris into the basement, blew out windows and doors onto the streets of downtown Fort Worth and left more than 20 people injured, Sprawling storms wallop US with tornado reports, damage and heavy snow, closing roads and schools 01/09/2024 09:41pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A sprawling storm hit the U.S. South, with tornado warnings and high winds that blew roofs off homes, flipped over campers and tossed about furniture in Florida on Tuesday, while another storm buried cities across the Midwest in more than a half a foot of snow, stranding pe Investigation into why a panel blew off a Boeing Max 9 jet focuses on missing bolts 01/09/2024 08:19pm • The extended grounding of some Boeing 737 Max jetliners is adding to pressure on Boeing and the subcontractor that made the fuselage and installed a panel that blew out leaving a gaping hole in an Alaska Airlines plane last week. Investigators know the sequence of events that led to the blowout Frid Notorious 'Access Hollywood' tape to be shown at Trump's defamation trial damages phase next week 01/09/2024 07:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he sexually abused and then defamed, a judge ruled Tues 7 Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2024 01/09/2024 07:00pm • The semiconductor sector stacked cash for investors in 2023, with the benchmark PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOX) up 65% for the year. The index piled on 30% in the last two months of 2023. That's a good year's work for the semiconductor sector. If you had plopped $10,000 down on the SOX on Jan. 1, 202