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UK Post Office scandal: Parliamentary committee seeks to speed up compensation for victims 01/16/2024 06:37am • LONDON (AP) — Lawmakers trying to get to the bottom of one of Britain’s gravest injustices were questioning bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu on Tuesday as momentum grew to compensate and clear the names of more than 900 Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because A blast at a tire and explosives factory in Serbia kills 1 person and injures 4 01/16/2024 04:40am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A blast Tuesday at a Serbian factory that produces tires, protective gear and industrial explosives killed one person and injured four, police said. The explosion occurred around 9a.m. at a fuel strip production unit of the Trayal Coorporation factory in the central city of Today in History: January 16, Caesar Augustus declared Roman emperor 01/16/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2024. There are 350 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 16, 27 B.C., Caesar Augustus was declared the first Emperor of the Roman Empire by the Senate. On this date: In 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William Shih Ming-teh, Taiwan activist who pushed for democracy, dies at 83 01/15/2024 11:25pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Shih Ming-teh, a democracy activist who helped lead Taiwan from authoritarianism to democracy and a former chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, died on Monday, his family said. He was 83. According to a statement from his family on his official Facebook page, he was Man arrested in dog's killing in Falls Church may have killed other animals, farm director says 01/15/2024 10:20pm • A man arrested for stabbing a dog in Falls Church, Virginia, may have killed other animals in the area, police told WTOP on Monday. Falls Church police said Reyan Hassan Ibrahim, 25, of Broadlands, Virginia, allegedly stabbed a dog on Broad Street while it was being walked by its owner on Sunday. Editorial Roundup: United States 01/15/2024 07:20pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Jan. 15 The New York Times on the responsibility of Republican voters Iowa Republicans who will gather on Monday to cast the first votes of the 2024 presidential campaign season, and voters in New Hampshire and the states that will fol Winter weather leads to vehicle crashes, messy roads around DC region 01/15/2024 07:17pm • An overturned dump truck temporarily closed a portion of southbound Interstate 295 in D.C. on Monday as snow continues to fall across the region, leading to icy roads and slippery conditions. D.C. Fire and EMS reported the dump truck spilled its load across the road Monday morning. The crash invo Inquest begins into a 2022 stabbing rampage in Canada that killed 11 and injured 17 01/15/2024 06:59pm • MELFORD, Saskatchewan (AP) — A public inquest began Monday into a stabbing rampage that left 11 people dead and 17 injured on a Saskatchewan First Nation on Sept. 4, 2022. Myles Sanderson, the 32-year-old accused in the attacks on James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, died in polic UN agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine and disease 01/15/2024 05:38pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed 24,000. While the U.N. Nichushkin enters the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program, will be away from Avs indefinitely 01/15/2024 04:29pm • DENVER (AP) — Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has entered the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program and will be away from the team for an indefinite amount of time. The league and union announced Monday that Nichushkin will return to the Avalanche once he's cleared by program administra Bernardo Arévalo faces huge challenges after finally being sworn in as Guatemala's president 01/15/2024 03:38pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's new president, Bernardo Arévalo, was left with huge challenges Monday after he was finally sworn into office, including his party's lack of recognition in a Congress where he would not have a majority anyway. After months of efforts to derail his inauguration, ol Man United keeper Onana not in Cameroon squad despite grueling trip to make Africa Cup game on time 01/15/2024 03:32pm • YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — After a grueling effort to reach the Africa Cup of Nations on time, Manchester United goalkeeper André Onana failed to make the Cameroon squad for the five-time champions’ opening game. Onana was omitted from coach Rigobert Song’s squad for the 1-1 draw agains Live updates | Gaza death toll tops 24,000 as UN agencies call urgently for more aid 01/15/2024 03:08pm • Israeli strikes hit Gaza City and soldiers battled militants in southern Gaza on Monday as the heads of three major U.N. agencies said the enclave desperately needs more aid to ward off famine and disease outbreaks. More than 100 days into Israel's war against Hamas, Palestinian authorities said th Romanian truck drivers and farmers protest as talks with the government fail to reach an agreement 01/15/2024 02:45pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Truck drivers and farmers protested across Romania again on Monday as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements. Long convoys of trucks and tractors disrupted traffic on the outskirts of UK government says the lslamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and moves to ban it 01/15/2024 01:41pm • LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Monday that the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization. Parliament will debate this week a proposal to make joining the group illegal in the U.K. under terrorism laws, the Home Office said. If approved, t