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Cyprus president has invited foreign experts to help with Russian sanction evasion investigations 11/20/2023 01:43pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The president of Cyprus said Monday he personally asked an unnamed ���third country��� to send an experienced team of financial crime experts to help the east Mediterranean island nation with investigations into old and new allegations that Cypriot financial service provider Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/20/2023 01:36pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Experts say a wall that collapsed and killed 9 in the Dominican Republic capital was poorly built 11/20/2023 01:29pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� A concrete wall along an avenue in the Dominican Republic's capital that collapsed over the weekend and killed nine people during heavy rains was poorly designed, experts said Monday. The government of the Caribbean country has come under scrutiny, with exp 'Unimaginable loss': 2 children struck and killed walking to Prince George's Co. elementary school 11/20/2023 01:12pm • Two children have died after being struck by a vehicle while walking to school Monday morning in Riverdale, Maryland, police say. The collision happened at the intersection of Riverdale Road and Taylor Road, while the two children were walking to Riverdale Elementary School around 8 a.m., accordi Italy is outraged by the death of a young woman in the latest suspected case of gender violence 11/20/2023 11:58am • ROME (AP) ��� Italy has erupted in outrage over the death of a young woman, allegedly at the hands of her possessive ex-boyfriend, with the Italian premier vowing to crack down further on gender-based violence that has claimed the lives of more than 50 women so far this year. Police in Germany over Md. man killed in Fairfax Co. single-vehicle crash 11/20/2023 11:32am • A man was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning in Fairfax County, Virginia. Officers said 21-year-old Issac Garcia Mendoza of Oxon Hill, Maryland, was driving northbound along Backlick Road just after 1:20 a.m. when the crash happened. Witnesses told investigators Mendoza was With the world's eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war 11/20/2023 10:08am • QUSRA, West Bank (AP) ��� When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants��� deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank. Overnight, the territory was closed off. Towns were raided, curfews imposed, teena 6 teens seriously injured, 1 arrested in suspected DUI crash in Fairfax Co. 11/20/2023 09:54am • Six teenagers were seriously injured and another teen was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a crash Monday morning in a residential area of Fairfax County, Virginia. It happened after 6 a.m. in the intersection of Pioneer Lane and Shreve Road, police said. One of the teen Supreme Court rejects appeal of former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd 11/20/2023 09:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin 's appeal of his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd. The justices did not comment in leaving in place state court rulings affirming Chauvin���s conviction and 22 1 Georgia deputy who shot absolved man had been fired for excessive force. Critics blame the sheriff 11/20/2023 09:45am • When Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge fatally shot Leonard Cure during a roadside struggle after pulling him over for speeding, it wasn���t the first time a traffic stop involving the Camden County sheriff's deputy had spiraled into violence. Last year, Aldridge dragged a driver from a car that crashed afte Women make up more than half of ministers in the new Cabinet of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S��nchez 11/20/2023 08:32am • MADRID (AP) ��� Women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in the new government named Monday by Spain���s recently reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro S��nchez. ���The new government is going to have a marked feminist accent with four women deputy prime ministers and more female ministers than male mi German security officials say they foiled an alleged far-right attack by an 18-year-old 11/20/2023 07:47am • BERLIN (AP) ��� An 18-year-old right-wing extremist was arrested in central Germany on suspicion that he was planning a ���serious act of violence endangering the state,��� security officials said Monday. The man, whose identity was nor given in line with German privacy rules, is accused of having Arlington County shares draft drone policies, asks community for comments 11/20/2023 07:19am • Arlington County, Virginia, officials are asking residents to share their thoughts about using drones for public safety by New Year's Day. The new Unmanned Aircraft Systems program would help to increase Arlington County's response to emergencies, according to a statement from the county. Fire, p More than 400,000 Afghans have returned home from Pakistan following crackdown on migrants 11/20/2023 06:33am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� More than 400,000 Afghans returned to their home country following the ongoing crackdown on illegal foreigners in the country, Pakistani authorities said Monday. Zabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesperson of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, confirmed the number and told The Arrest made after man shot dead at Falls Church hotel 11/20/2023 06:29am • Fairfax County police say a suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a 44-year-old man inside a Falls Church, Virginia, hotel on Sunday. Hiep Van Vo, 43, of Annandale, Virginia, was apprehended by Fairfax's Fugitive Track & Apprehension Division, the U.S. Marshal Service and Montgom