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Metro to roll out 24/7 bus service next week 12/06/2023 08:05am • Starting next Sunday, Metro will be expanding bus service overnight and into the morning, providing 24-hour service to 14 routes across the District. On Dec. 17, Metro buses will begin to operate every 20 minutes between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. The following routes will offer the prolonged service: A British financier sought for huge tax fraud is extradited to Denmark from UAE 12/06/2023 07:55am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Dubai-based British hedge fund trader sought by Danish authorities for allegedly orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud, considered one of the largest in the Scandinavian country, has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates, officials said Wednesday. Financier Sa Slovakia's new government closes prosecutor's office that deals with corruption and serious crimes 12/06/2023 07:53am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico approved on Wednesday an amendment to the country’s penal code to close the special prosecutor’s office that deals with the most serious crimes and corruption. President Zuzana Caputova, the oppositi A survivor is pulled out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after being trapped. Dozens remain missing 12/06/2023 07:07am • LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday. Two bodies were also retrieved from underneath debris at the open-pit mine in the southern African coun At least 16 dead and 12 injured as passenger bus falls off ravine in central Philippines 12/06/2023 05:24am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A passenger bus lost control while negotiating a downhill curve in a central Philippine mountain village and plunged into a deep ravine, killing at least 16 people and injuring 12 others, officials said Wednesday. Eight of the wounded in the accident, which happened Tues Iran arrests a popular singer after he was handed over by police in Turkey 12/06/2023 04:36am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities have arrested a popular singer who had criticized the government after he was handed over by police in Turkey, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Amirhossein Maghsoudloo, better known as Tataloo, has been critical of Iran's lea Generation after generation, Israeli prison marks a rite of passage for Palestinian boys 12/06/2023 04:26am • NABI SALEH, West Bank (AP) — For all Palestinian parents, Marwan Tamimi said, there comes a moment they realize they're powerless to protect their children. For the 48-year-old father of three, it came in June, when Israeli forces fired a large rubber bullet that struck the head of his eldest son, China raises stakes in cyberscam crackdown in Myanmar, though loopholes remain 12/06/2023 02:37am • BANGKOK (AP) — China is ramping up a crackdown on online scams operated by criminal syndicates in border areas of military-ruled Myanmar in an effort that has included a shootout, confession videos and national TV broadcasts of arrests of high-profile suspects. But the drive has been confined to a A woman has died and 2 people have been wounded in a shooting in east London, police say 12/06/2023 02:14am • LONDON (AP) — A woman has died and two people were wounded after a shooting in east London, British police said Tuesday. The Metropolitan Police force said three people were found with gunshot wounds after officers were called to the scene following reports of a shooting in the east London neighbo AP PHOTOS: An earthquake, a shipwreck and a king's coronation are among Europe's views in 2023 12/06/2023 12:06am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two men play with a ball in the placid sea; a woman practices yoga where the water meets the hot sand. No one looks back — at the hellscape that starts a few beach-towel lengths away. The black bones of pine trees and scrub stretch inland as far as the eye reaches, marking 17-year-old arrested in DC carjacking of FBI agent 12/05/2023 10:30pm • A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged in connection with the November carjacking of an FBI agent in Northeast D.C., according to court documents that also reveal more details about what happened. Authorities said two carjackers pulled a gun on the agent in the 100 block of 12th Street NE ne More bodies found after sudden eruption of Indonesia's Mount Marapi, raising confirmed toll to 23 12/05/2023 08:27pm • BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found the last body of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 23, officials said Wednesday. About 75 climbers started their way up the Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut plane's engines indicted on endangerment charges 12/05/2023 08:03pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The former Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight has been indicted on 84 endangerment charges, but is no longer charged with attempted murder, authorities said Tuesday. The district attorney’s office in Oregon’s Multnomah Count Attorneys for family of absolved Black man killed by deputy seeking $16M from Georgia sheriff 12/05/2023 07:22pm • WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a Black man fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during an October traffic stop have given formal notice of plans to sue the sheriff's office in a letter demanding $16 million in restitution. Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told repor Man believed to have fired shots before a Virginia house exploded died in the blast, police say 12/05/2023 06:49pm • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The owner of a Virginia house that exploded as police tried to execute a search warrant is believed to have died in the blast, officials said Tuesday, as details emerged about numerous grievances he expressed against neighbors and others on social media and in lawsuits. James