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Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law 02/01/2024 04:36am • MIAMI (AP) — A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership – a plan the U FIA-commissioned report takes aim at social media companies for not curbing online abuse in sports 02/01/2024 04:00am • An FIA-commissioned report on online abuse in sports released Thursday suggests social media companies should do more to curb targeted attacks toward athletes, officials and even fans. The United Against Online Abuse Campaign surveyed 22 global sporting federations, among them FIFA, World Athletics, A Hong Kong court convicts 4 people of rioting over the storming of the legislature in 2019 protests 02/01/2024 01:46am • HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court convicted four people Thursday for rioting over the storming of the city's legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests more than four years ago. The break-in on July 1 in 2019 — the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony's Takeaways from AP report on the DEA's secret spying program in Venezuela 02/01/2024 01:17am • MIAMI (AP) — It was a plan the United States knew from the start would arguably violate international law. The Associated Press obtained a secret 2018 memo detailing a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick? 02/01/2024 12:23am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a national database. But experts say it’s rare for anyone to be held accountable for the harm †El Salvador's Bukele has everyone's attention as he seeks reelection in spite of the constitution 02/01/2024 12:00am • SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Love him or hate him, all eyes are on Nayib Bukele. To many, El Salvador’s president is a national hero who took on the country's violent gangs with an unrelenting hand. To others, the populist is a 21st century autocrat who has committed mass human rights abuses and has alte Live updates | South Africa alleges Israel is ignoring court ruling as more are killed in north Gaza 01/31/2024 11:49pm • South Africa’s foreign minister alleged Israel is ignoring the ruling by the United Nations’ top court last week, which ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza. Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 150 people were killed UK police hunt for a man suspected of throwing a 'corrosive substance' that injured 9 in London 01/31/2024 10:51pm • LONDON (AP) — British police said Wednesday they are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London. The Metropolitan Police force said nine people were hurt after a man threw the substance at a woman and two children in the Clapham area. Detective Sup Man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia home and posting gruesome video online 01/31/2024 09:10pm • LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia posted a gruesome video on social media that shows him holding up the severed head and railing against the government, authorities said Wednesday. Justin Mohn, 32, who is charged with first-degree murder and abusi 'Tragedy for everyone involved': DC police release bodycam footage of fatal police shooting 01/31/2024 08:38pm • Newly released body camera footage shows the moments a D.C. police officer fatally shot a man who police said minutes earlier had attacked a paramedic and then escaped an the ambulance taking him to a hospital. During a Wednesday evening news conference, Executive Assistant Chief of Police Jeff C Russia and Ukraine swap scores of POWs despite tensions over a plane crash last week 01/31/2024 07:45pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week's crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv's forces. After the Jan. 24 Suspect in deadly carjacking spree identified by Maryland authorities 01/31/2024 07:28pm • The man suspected in a string of shootings and carjackings earlier this week that stretched from D.C. into Prince George’s County, Maryland, and left one man dead and another critically wounded has been identified by Maryland authorities. The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Kosovo will impose the use of the euro in minority Serb areas, concerning Western powers 01/31/2024 07:25pm • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo authorities on Wednesday said they would impose the use of the country’s currency, the euro, and abolish the use of neighboring Serbia’s dinar in the north where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives. Kosovo’s Central Bank Governor Ahmet Ismaili said starting Man fleeing police caused crash that injured Gayle Manchin, authorities say 01/31/2024 07:10pm • HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — A man fleeing police caused the Alabama car crash that injured Gayle Manchin, head of an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments and the wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, along with a colleague of hers, authorities said Wednesday. Poli Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones reflects on his 38 years on the job 01/31/2024 06:50pm • Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said his decision to announce that he'll retire, effective July 1, isn't a decision he came to suddenly. Jones told WTOP that not long after he was named chief of the Maryland county's police department in 2019, he considered the long-term plan, "a