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Belarus Red Cross mulls call for ouster of its chief as authorities show Ukrainian kids to diplomats 10/05/2023 02:25pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarus Red Cross says it is examining a call by the international Red Cross to fire its chief, who made headlines earlier this year for bragging that his organization was ferrying children from Russian-occupied Ukraine to Belarus. The International Federation of Red C Berhalter speaks with Gio Reyna for first time since family feud, invites him to training 10/05/2023 01:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gregg Berhalter spoke with Gio Reyna for the first time in nine months since a family feud erupted into public view following the World Cup, and the returning U.S. coach invited the oft-injured 20-year-old midfielder back to training camp ahead of exhibitions against Germany and Gh Former Aces' player Hamby files discrimination complaint against team, WNBA 10/05/2023 12:18pm • Dearica Hamby filed a gender discrimination complaint last week against the WNBA and the Las Vegas Aces, saying her former team and its coach, Becky Hammon, retaliated against her after she informed them she was pregnant. Hamby filed the complaint with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission and the Equa 'Mrs. Doubtfire' stage musical visits National Theatre on 30th anniversary of Robin Williams blockbuster 10/05/2023 12:17pm • This fall marks the 30th anniversary of Robin Williams' side-splitting comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993).f D.C. is celebrating with the stage musical "Mrs. Doubtfire" at National Theatre from Oct. 10 to Oct. 15. "If you're a big fan of the movie, you're going to see what you want to see," Act Lawyers of alleged Andrew Tate's victims say their clients are being harassed and intimidated 10/05/2023 11:16am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Lawyers for alleged abuse victims of Andrew Tate, the social media influencer charged with rape and human trafficking, said Thursday that the accused and his followers are trying to intimidate their clients into silence. Speaking at a news conference held at a central Bu Media entrepreneur unites young activists with power brokers for fight to make social media safe 10/05/2023 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) — A media entrepreneur is trying to connect young people disturbed by the impact of social media on mental health with older power players to fight for change in how tech companies do business. The newly-formed Sustainable Media Center is intent on stopping companies from using algor Oprah Winfrey gives $2.5M to Silver Spring-based U.S. Dream Academy 10/05/2023 10:30am • Oprah Winfrey announced the $2.5 million gift via video message at the group’s annual "Power of a Dream" event on Oct. 2, 2023. (Courtesy U.S. Dream Academy) Silver Spring, Maryland-based The U.S. Dream Academy, a nonprofit that supports the children of incarcerated parents, received a sur Deadly Thai mall shooting exposes murky trade in blank handguns that are turned into lethal weapons 10/05/2023 10:27am • BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand said Thursday they have arrested three men they accuse of selling the handgun and ammunition used by a 14-year-old boy who allegedly killed two people and wounded five others at a shopping mall in Bangkok. The shooting Tuesday at the Siam Paragon mall in the Thai Israeli suspects to plead to charges of raping of a British woman after defense lawyers get material 10/05/2023 07:41am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Five Israelis accused of gang raping a British woman in a Cyprus hotel room won’t plead to charges including rape, sexual assault and abduction until prosecutors hand over key material including DNA tests, fingerprints and eyewitness testimony, a lawyer said Thursday. Yan A year after Thai day care center massacre, a family copes with their grief 10/05/2023 07:23am • UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — In a simply built concrete house a few meters (yards) off a dirt road in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, Tawee Lasopha wakes up before sunrise to catch fish from his pond, then moves onto household chores with his wife, cooking breakfast and pre Nearly 80% of Italians say they are Catholic. But few regularly go to church 10/05/2023 12:24am • ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata in the sanctuary where the young saint is venerated in this central Italian mountain village. Andrea, 6, asked for blessings for his family and pets, while Sofia, 9, offered thanksgiving for winni Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics 10/05/2023 12:19am • CHENNAI, India (AP) — Despite India’s millennia-old history of nonreligious movements, most atheists and rationalists choose to keep quiet about their skepticism of faith — it’s easier and far less risky than going public in one of the world's most religious countries. The space that does ex Israel is perennially swept up in religious conflict. Yet many of its citizens are secular 10/05/2023 12:18am • MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (AP) — Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of its strict religious rules. The cou From cradle to casket, life for Italians changes as Catholic faith loses relevance 10/04/2023 11:44pm • ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — In small towns like this mountain one a couple of hours east of Rome, and all across Italy, life has changed over the last generation as the Catholic faith loses relevance in people’s routines and choices. From cradle to casket — from buying contraceptives at What it's like to be a Fairfax Co. librarian in an era of banned books 10/04/2023 09:50pm • When a fourth grade class visited Patrick Henry Library in Vienna, Virginia, a conversation about a digital resource transitioned into one about how the library handles challenges to its materials. Andréa Fernandes, the library's youth services manager, showed the students a website that started