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Live updates | Two Israeli hostages are released after Hamas and Israel extend their cease-fire 11/30/2023 02:45pm • A temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war has been extended another day, according to mediator Qatar. The announcement Thursday morning came minutes before the cease-fire was set to expire. Hamas freed two Israeli hostages Thursday afternoon and they were brought back into Israel, with more exp A deadline for ethnic Serbs to sign up for Kosovo license plates has been postponed by 2 weeks 11/30/2023 01:15pm • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� Kosovo's government on Thursday postponed a deadline by two weeks for ethnic Serbs living in the country to register their vehicles with Kosovo license plates instead of Serbian ones. The move was made to give ethnic Serbs more time to comply with the order. The deadline wa Wartime Israel shows little tolerance for Palestinian dissent 11/30/2023 12:58pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Bayan Khateeb knows she's a terrible cook. So when she managed to pull off a dish of cooked tomatoes and eggs, she took a photo to show friends on social media. ���Soon we shall eat the Shakshouka of victory!��� crowed her caption, which included an emoji of the Palestinian flag. French soccer league struggling with violence, discriminatory chanting and low-scoring matches 11/30/2023 12:26pm • There's been homophobic and racist chanting in the stands, a team bus pelted with stones, a game called off because of crowd trouble, and precious few goals on the field. The French soccer league is making headlines for all the wrong reasons this season. And now even the French government is calling Alternative healer faces manslaughter charge over woman's death at a UK slapping therapy workshop 11/30/2023 12:22pm • LONDON (AP) ��� An alternative healer who advocates a technique known as ���slapping therapy��� was charged Thursday over the death of a woman at one of his workshops in England seven years ago. Hongchi Xiao was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence in the October 2016 death of Danielle Carr 4 migrants who were pushed out of a boat die just yards from Spain's southern coast 11/30/2023 11:59am • MADRID (AP) ��� Four migrants have died close to shore in southern Spain after being forced out of the boat they were traveling in, officials said Thursday. The Spanish government press office in the southern province of Cadiz said that 31 other people from the boat, including six children, survived A house explodes and bursts into flames in Minnesota, killing at least 1 person, fire chief says 11/30/2023 11:30am • An explosion and subsequent fire leveled a home in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb early Thursday, killing at least one person, a fire official said. The explosion happened just after 6:15 a.m. in South St. Paul, said South Metro Fire Department Chief Mark Juelfs. Firefighters arrived within minutes a Former Myanmar colonel who once served as information minister gets 10-year prison term for sedition 11/30/2023 11:25am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been convicted of sedition and incitement, a legal official said Thursday. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ye Htut, a Russian missile strikes in eastern Ukraine rip through buildings, kill 2 and bury families in rubble 11/30/2023 10:39am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine���s Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday, killing at least two people and burying families under rubble as the Kremlin���s forces continued to pound the fiercely contested area with long-range weapon Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues and a laureate of booze and beauty, dies at age 65 11/30/2023 09:39am • LONDON (AP) ��� Shane MacGowan, the boozy, rabble-rousing singer and chief songwriter of The Pogues, who infused traditional Irish music with the energy and spirit of punk, died Thursday, his family said. He was 65. MacGowan's songwriting and persona made him an iconic figure in contemporary Irish c Vehicle wanted in Chicago homicide crashes into Milwaukee school bus during police pursuit 11/30/2023 09:23am • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� A vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide in Chicago crashed into a school bus during a police chase in Milwaukee on Wednesday, sending multiple people to area hospitals. Police in Milwaukee said in a statement that they began chasing the vehicle shortly before noon. The veh Bowie-based nonprofit and Mt. Rainier police offer free HIV-testing for World AIDS Day 11/30/2023 09:20am • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant.��Read more of that coverage. As we approach World AIDS Day at the start of next month, a local group wants to help young people in the community learn their HIV statu Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024 11/30/2023 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday. The network of nearly 4,800 f Pakistan police arrest 4 men in the death of a woman after a photo with her boyfriend went viral 11/30/2023 08:14am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Pakistani authorities have arrested four people who allegedly killed an 18-year-old woman in the purported name of honor after a picture of her sitting with a boyfriend went viral on social media, police said Thursday. The woman's father and three other men were detained A Pakistani province aims to deport 10,000 Afghans a day 11/30/2023 07:41am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� A Pakistani province is setting targets for police to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of Afghans it says are in the country illegally, officials said Thursday. The measure is part of a nationwide crackdown following a sharp decline in the expulsion of Afghans livin