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Ethiopian bank seeks to recover millions after a technical glitch triggered massive withdrawals 03/19/2024 10:09am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s biggest bank is reportedly attempting to recover more than $40 million after a technical glitch allowed customers to withdraw more than they had in their accounts. Long lines formed at cash machines across Ethiopia after the problem was discovered at the Commerci Fairfax Co. man arrested for housing missing New York teenager 03/19/2024 07:22am • A man from McLean, Virginia, has been arrested after Fairfax County detectives found him to be housing a missing New York teen, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Detectives were notified on March 15 that a missing teen from New York may be in Fairfax County. An investigation led Japan prepares to host and then travel to North Korea for back-to-back FIFA World Cup qualifiers 03/19/2024 02:29am • Even with the top continental ranking and players of vast international experience, Hajime Moriyasu’s Japan squad faces a journey into the unknown in back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against North Korea. Asian qualifying resumes Thursday with Japan hosting North Korea in Tokyo. Five days later, J Famine is said to be imminent in northern Gaza as Israel raids the main hospital again 03/19/2024 02:11am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, where 70% of people are experiencing catastrophic hunger, according to a report Monday that warned escalation of the war could push half of Gaza's total population to the brink of starvation. The report, by the international community†Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions 03/19/2024 02:00am • SERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday. Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to better protect girls and women. The legislation was referred to a nation Detention of 3 teens over gruesome killing of 13-year-old classmate sparks debate in China 03/19/2024 01:48am • BEIJING (AP) — In the last recorded moments before the 13-year-old boy's death, surveillance cameras showed him sitting on a scooter, surrounded by three classmates. An hour later, his phone went dead, kicking off a frantic search by relatives. The following day, police in a village in northern Ch South Korea will suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishment for doctors' walkouts 03/18/2024 11:23pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities will suspend the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations, one of the doctors said Monday. The impending suspensions are the Putin extends rule in preordained Russian election after harshest crackdown since Soviet era 03/18/2024 10:59pm • President Vladimir Putin extended his reign over Russia in a landslide election whose outcome was never in doubt, declaring his determination Monday to advance deeper into Ukraine and dangling new threats against the West. After the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times, it was clear from Supreme Court extends block on Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants 03/18/2024 10:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday continued to block, for now, a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. A one-page order signed by Justice Samue Oregon man found guilty of murder in 1980 cold case of college student after DNA link 03/18/2024 10:08pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, has been found guilty in the 1980 cold case murder of a 19-year-old college student. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio on Friday found Robert Plympton, 60, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Mae Tucke Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti's capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby 03/18/2024 09:54pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital early Monday in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise, forcing residents to flee as some called Man pleads guilty to murder in Hawaii after killing lover and encasing his body in tub 03/18/2024 09:05pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A man pleaded guilty to murder Monday, about two years after his lover's decomposing body was found encased in concrete in a bathtub in one of Hawaii's most exclusive gated communities. Juan Tejedor Baron, now 25, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Gary Ruby, 7 A woman is arrested in fatal crash at San Francisco bus stop that killed 3 people 03/18/2024 07:41pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 78-year-old woman was arrested in connection to a fatal crash at a bus stop in San Francisco that killed two adults and a child and injured an infant who remains hospitalized, police said Monday. Mary Fong Lau, of San Francisco, was booked into jail on Sunday and remained i Social media influencer is charged with joining the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol 03/18/2024 06:31pm • A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police, according to court records unsealed on Monday. Isabella Maria DeLuca was arrested last Friday in Irvi Arsonist sets fire to Florida Jewish center, but police do not believe it was a hate crime 03/18/2024 06:26pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police believe was set by a mentally ill homeless man who previously confronted the rabbi and others. Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki said Monday that the man accused of setting the fire sat down