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Children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi accept the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf 12/10/2023 02:50pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� The teenage children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi accepted this year���s Nobel Peace Prize in the Norwegian capital on Sunday on behalf of the mother they haven���t seen in years, reading out a speech she penned from a Tehran prison as her medal rested on an empt Hong Kong holds first council elections under new rules that shut out pro-democracy candidates 12/10/2023 01:37pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong's first district council elections since an electoral overhaul was implemented under Beijing's guidance of ���patriots��� administering the city, effectively shutting out all pro-democracy candidates. Turnout is expected to be muc Diamonds in the vacuum cleaner: Paris' luxury Ritz hotel finds guest's missing ring 12/10/2023 12:22pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Lost a very expensive diamond ring? Try checking the vacuum cleaner. That's what employees of Paris' luxury Ritz hotel did ��� and got lucky. Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that a Malaysian guest of the hotel filed a police complaint on Friday alleging that her diamond ring van Thousands march in Europe in the latest rallies against antisemitism stoked by the war in Gaza 12/10/2023 11:50am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Thousands of people marched in the Belgian and German capitals on Sunday to protest soaring antisemitism since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The demonstrations in Brussels and Berlin were the latest in a series of rallies in European capitals that have expressed su Thousands demonstrate against antisemitism in Berlin as Germany grapples with a rise in incidents 12/10/2023 10:40am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Several thousand people demonstrated against antisemitism in Berlin on Sunday as Germany grapples with a large increase in anti-Jewish incidents following Hamas' attack on Israel two months ago. Police estimated that around 3,200 people gathered in the rain in the German capital, whi DC man arrested on child porn charges after soliciting minor on Snapchat, police say 12/10/2023 10:12am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have arrested a D.C. man who is accused of producing child pornography and soliciting a minor over Snapchat. Now, detectives are looking for possible additional victims. The incident was first reported when parents told police their child was speaking with a ma Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico's Tijuana 12/10/2023 10:02am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at l A woman is charged with manslaughter after 2 sets of young twins were killed in a 2021 London fire 12/10/2023 09:19am • LONDON (AP) ��� A woman has been charged with four counts of manslaughter after two sets of young twins were killed in a fire that ripped through a London home in 2021. Deveca Rose, 29, has also been charged with child abandonment, London���s Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement. She is s Iran bans Mahsa Amini's family from traveling to accept the European Union���s top human rights prize 12/10/2023 08:43am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini's family from traveling to accept the European Union���s top human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini's death while in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests th At UN climate talks, cameras are everywhere. Many belong to Emirati company with a murky history 12/10/2023 08:35am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� At the United Nations' COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried. It's unclear how the United Arab Emirates, an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms, uses the footage it gathers across its e 60-year-old arrested in deadly stabbing of 71-year-old in Southeast DC 12/10/2023 07:41am • A 60-year-old woman from Southeast D.C. was arrested for the deadly stabbing of a 71-year-old man on Tuesday. D.C. police say they arrested and charged Linda Archie with assault with intent to kill. She was charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of Charmaine Smith. According to polic 3 people killed and 1 wounded in shooting at Atlanta apartment building, police say 12/10/2023 07:25am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A shooting in Atlanta killed three people and left one victim wounded Saturday evening, police said. The Atlanta Police Department said officers responded to an address on Peachtree Road NE in the city���s Buckhead district Saturday. Police said three victims in their 20s were prono China is hardening against dissent, rights groups say as they mark International Human Rights Day 12/10/2023 05:44am • LONDON (AP) ��� When her husband fled China in 2019 to escape a police crackdown on dissidents, Lu Lina thought she and their young son could soon join him in safety abroad. She did not know that she would be forced to move house, that her 8-year-old son would be effectively kicked out of school an Egyptians vote for president, with el-Sissi certain to win 12/10/2023 05:15am • CAIRO (AP) ��� Egyptians began voting Sunday in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is certain to win another term, keeping him in power until 2030. The election has been overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Almost all Egyptians' Bangladesh opposition party holds protest as it boycotts Jan. 7 national election amid violence 12/10/2023 04:29am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Hundreds of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters protested Sunday to mark International Human Rights Day, as the country gears up for a general election on Jan. 7 that the opposition says should be held under a non-partisan, caretaker government. The party, l