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Tent camps razed and activists arrested as Tunisia clamps down on migrants 05/09/2024 02:12pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� Tensions in Tunisia ratcheted up as demonstrators seeking better rights for migrants staged a sit-in before European Union headquarters on Thursday, capping a week in which Tunisian authorities targeted migrant communities from the coast to the capital with arrests and the de Colorado woman tried to steal a pickup, but couldn't handle the stick shift, police said 05/09/2024 01:01pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado woman���s attempt to steal a pickup truck ��� shortly after she was released from jail on a car theft charge ��� was thwarted not by officers, nor the truck���s owners, but by her inability to drive a stick shift, Boulder Police said. The woman had been released fr Vietnam's arrest of reformist labor official could disturb bid for better trade terms with the US 05/09/2024 12:43pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A senior Vietnamese official with the country���s labor ministry was arrested for "deliberately disclosing state secrets,��� police announced on Thursday, a development that analysts say could hurt Vietnam���s efforts to obtain more favorable trade terms for exports to the United St Judge won't reconvene jury after disputed verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case 05/09/2024 12:35pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� The judge who oversaw a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire���s youth detention center won���t reconvene the jury but says he will consider other options to address the disputed $38 million verdict. David Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in s 4 killed in yet another wrong-way highway crash in Connecticut 05/09/2024 12:31pm • STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� A driver going the wrong way on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway crashed head-on into a minivan early Thursday, killing all four people in the vehicles and closing one side of the highway for nearly seven hours, state police said. State police said an SUV was traveling northbo Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property 05/09/2024 11:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners. By a 6-3 vote, the justices rejected the claims of two Alabama Yoon rejects South Korean opposition's calls for special investigation of his wife and top officials 05/09/2024 10:57am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea���s president on Thursday dismissed calls for independent investigations into allegations involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals. After his conservative ruling party suffered a heavy loss in the recent Apr Homeless encampment cleared from drug-plagued Philadelphia neighborhood 05/09/2024 10:22am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Philadelphia police have cleared out a homeless encampment in a city neighborhood where drug use has been pervasive for years, but homeless advocates and others have raised concerns about how it was done. The effort, which the city called an ���encampment resolution,��� started Puerto Rico declares state of emergency as persistent rains unleash heavy flooding and landslides 05/09/2024 10:17am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Puerto Rico���s governor has declared a state of emergency following heavy rains, widespread flooding and landslides in the U.S. territory. One person has been reported missing. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi also activated the National Guard on Wednesday to help 22 of the islan Michigan former clerk and attorney charged after alleged unauthorized access to 2020 voter data 05/09/2024 10:00am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Michigan's attorney general announced charges Wednesday against a former township clerk and a lawyer who had supported attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, alleging they accessed voting systems without authorization in a search of fraud. Former Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds 05/09/2024 09:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year and spiked du Ambulance purchase interrupted by scammers leaves Rockville Volunteer Fire Department out $220K 05/09/2024 04:38am • Who would steal from volunteers who dedicate their time to saving lives? That's what Eric Bernard, president of the Rockville Fire Department, would like to know. So would the Montgomery County Police, the FBI and the United States Secret Service. The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department was re IS group claims bombing in Afghanistan that killed officers involved in an anti-poppy crop campaign 05/09/2024 04:21am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bombing in Afghanistan���s northeast that killed police officers who were part of an anti-poppy crop campaign. A motorcycle was booby-trapped and exploded, targeting a Taliban patrol in Faizabad town in Badakhshan province, kill Fiji's ex-leader, Frank Bainimarama, sentenced to prison for interfering in police investigation 05/09/2024 02:56am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while he headed the government of his South Pacific island nation. Acting High Court of Fiji Chief Justice Salesi Temo sentenced the 70- Gunmen kill 7 barbers in Pakistan's volatile Baluchistan province 05/09/2024 02:40am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� Attackers fatally shot seven barbers before dawn Thursday in a home in a volatile province in southwestern Pakistan, police and a government official said. The killings occurred near the port city of Gwadar in Baluchistan province, police official Mohsin Ali said. All of th