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Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial dispute under pressure from Brazil, others 12/10/2023 04:08pm • GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed Sunday to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. The century-old dispute between the two South American nations recently reignited wi Zelenskyy will meet Biden at the White House amid a stepped-up push for Congress to approve more aid 12/10/2023 03:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will meet at the White House on Tuesday as the U.S. administration steps up the pressure on Congress to provide billions more in aid to Kyiv in its war with Russia. The visit is intended “to underscore the United St Wirtz keeps Leverkusen unbeaten in Bundesliga with 1-1 draw at high-flying Stuttgart 12/10/2023 01:45pm • BERLIN (AP) — Florian Wirtz scored to prevent Bayer Leverkusen falling to its first Bundesliga defeat of the season by securing a 1-1 draw at high-flying Stuttgart on Sunday. Leverkusen stretched its lead over Bayern Munich to four points, though the 11-time defending champion has a game in hand a Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico's Tijuana 12/10/2023 10:02am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at l Biden's focus on bashing Trump takes a page from the winning Obama and Bush reelection playbooks 12/10/2023 08:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's campaign manager recently sent a fundraising email meant to reassure supporters worried about the Democrat's reelection chances, urging them to take a “quick walk down memory lane.” Julie Chavez Rodriguez noted that many Democrats 12 years ago questioned Anthony Davis leads Lakers to NBA In-Season Tournament title, 123-109 over Pacers 12/10/2023 01:20am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — As Commissioner Adam Silver prepared to hand LeBron James the MVP trophy of the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament, he cautioned that “it doesn't come with a franchise.” James bent over in laughter, but he has been serious about wanting to own an NBA expansion team in Las Vega 6 dead, nearly 2 dozen injured after severe storms tear through central Tennessee 12/10/2023 12:23am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Severe storms that tore through central Tennessee killed six people Saturday and sent about two dozen to the hospital as homes and businesses were damaged in multiple cities. Three people, including a child, were killed after an apparent tornado struck Montgomery County no What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is marking its 75th anniversary? 12/10/2023 12:06am • Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris — laying one of the foundation stones of the international order that emerged following the horrors of World War II. The declaration was proclaimed as “a common st Democrat John Whitmire elected Houston mayor, defeating congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee 12/09/2023 11:25pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Houston elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor on Saturday night, elevating a Texas lawmaker who has represented the city for 50 years by giving him a victory over U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in a runoff. Whitmire, 74, who is one of Texas’ most powerful Dem Israel presses on with its Gaza offensive after US veto derails Security Council efforts to halt war 12/09/2023 10:45pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's military pushed ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war and word that an emergency sale of $106 million worth of tank ammunition had been approve Tensions are soaring between Guyana and Venezuela over a territorial dispute. Here's what to know 12/09/2023 08:01pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A century-old territorial dispute deepened by the discovery of oil is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. Steeped in patriotism, the Venezuelan government is seizing on the fight to boost support ahead of a presidential election among a population fed up A hospital fire near Rome kills at least 3 and causes an emergency evacuation of all patients 12/09/2023 05:00pm • ROME (AP) — A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome's outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing the overnight evacuation of the smoke-filled facility and its nearly 200 patients, officials said Saturday. The blaze began in the ground floor emergency room of the St. John the Evangelist ho A British Palestinian surgeon gave testimony to a UK war crimes unit after returning from Gaza 12/09/2023 04:55pm • BEIRUT (AP) — A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team said he has given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a plastic surgeon specializing in conflict Live updates | Gaza death toll tops 17,700 and Yemen rebels threaten ship traffic to Israel 12/09/2023 04:21pm • The Palestinian death toll in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 17,700, around two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. Israel’s ground offensive in southern Gaza Strip intensified on Saturday with further airstrikes and Wisconsin university regents reject deal with Republicans to reduce diversity positions 12/09/2023 03:51pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Universities of Wisconsin regents narrowly rejected a deal Saturday reached with Republicans that would have given employees a pay raise and paid for construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclu