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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global 07/13/2024 12:06am • HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) ��� When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region���s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center. Tzu Chi, an international Buddhist organization led by an 87-year-old nun, the Venerable Cheng Yen, and The Latest | Israel says it will reopen border crossing with hard-hit northern Gaza 07/12/2024 12:13pm • Israel says it's taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu���s office announced the plans early Friday, just hours after President Joe Biden told him that Senior UK jurists have joined calls to stop arms sales to Israel. Other allies face similar pressure 07/12/2024 12:12pm • LONDON (AP) ��� More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three U.K. aid workers in an Israeli strike. Britain is just one More than 6 in 10 U.S. adults support protecting access to IVF, AP-NORC poll finds 07/12/2024 07:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman. But a significant share say it describes their views at least somewhat well, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Res The Latest | Israel will send cease-fire negotiators to Cairo for more talks, Netanyahu says 07/11/2024 11:09pm • Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for further talks with mediators on a proposed deal with Hamas for a cease-fire and hostage release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu���s office said Thursday. Israel has been pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of the Gaz The Latest | US-built aid pier in Gaza will reopen for a few days, then be removed permanently 07/09/2024 06:52pm • The pier built by the U.S. military to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza will get reinstalled Wednesday to be used for several days, but then the plan is to pull it out permanently, several U.S. officials said. It would deal the final blow to a project long plagued by bad weather, security uncertaintie Case against Army veteran charged with killing a homeless man in Memphis, Tennessee, moves forward 07/09/2024 04:07pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pepper-sprayed a homeless man and got into a confrontation with him before fatally shooting him with an automatic rifle in Memphis, a security guard and a police investigator said Tuesday. The guard and the police serge Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections, AP-NORC poll finds 07/09/2024 10:21am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates who oppose abortion rights as the November election draws closer. Around 6 in A Memphis man is now charged with attacking two homeless men in recent months 07/08/2024 07:50pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A U.S. Army veteran charged with fatally shooting a homeless man has also been accused of attacking another homeless person with a knife in downtown Memphis, court documents show. Karl P. Loucks, 41, was charged June 25 with aggravated assault after police said he cut a man t Money Dysmorphia: What Is It and Does It Impact You? 07/07/2024 08:00pm • You have savings, no pressing debt and make a good income. When you review your accounts and circumstances you should feel proud and comfortable, but instead you're seized with worry. You can't relax and enjoy your positive situation. Or, maybe the process of earning money makes you nervous or you f A NATO summit and mending EU relations are among first tasks for new UK leader Keir Starmer 07/06/2024 09:58am • LONDON (AP) ��� New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn���t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.���s relati Affordable apartments are out of reach for many low-wage Maryland renters, report finds 07/06/2024 09:05am • Maryland is among the most-challenging states for minimum wage workers to earn enough to be able to afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment, suggesting that affordable housing is ���out of reach��� for many low-wage renters. That���s the conclusion of the ���Out of Reach��� report from the Nation Who's who in Britain's new Labour government led by Keir Starmer 07/06/2024 07:17am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed a Cabinet of Labour Party lawmakers and a few outside experts as he tries to tackle priorities including boosting a sluggish economy, building more homes and fixing the creaking state-funded health service. Labour has spent 14 Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon who rose to power in parliament, now Iran's president-elect 07/05/2024 11:22pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was ���unacceptable in the Islamic Republic to arrest a girl for her hijab and then hand over her dead body to her family.��� Days later, as nationwide protests and a bloody cr The Latest | Hamas says 'positive response' from mediators to its cease-fire amendments 07/05/2024 06:55pm • Hamas says amendments it proposed to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza ���have been met with a positive response by the mediators.��� However, ���the official Israeli position has not yet become clear,��� and no date for negotiations has been set, Hamas spokesperson Jihad Taha said