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Iran sentences a woman to death for adultery, state media say 11/03/2023 02:34pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said. A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females. It said her husband contacted police in 2022 when he found her with another man at their home. T Belarus sentences independent newspaper editor to 4 years in prison 11/03/2023 02:31pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of ���discrediting the Republic of Belarus��� and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent. A court in Molodechno, a cit Santa Fe considers tax on mansions as housing prices soar 11/03/2023 02:23pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Voters are deciding whether to tax mansions to pay for affordable housing initiatives in a state capital city prized for its desert-mountain vistas, vibrant arts scene and stucco architecture rooted in Native American and Spanish-colonial tradition. The tax on homes sold for 2 killed as flooding hits Kenya, sweeping away homes and destroying roads, officials say 11/03/2023 02:20pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Heavy rains and flooding ravaged parts of Kenya on Friday, sweeping away homes and livestock and destroying roads and electric transmission lines, authorities said. At least two people were killed and at least one was missing. One of the victims died after a house collapsed u Storm Ciar��n brings record rainfall to Italy with at least 6 killed. European death toll rises to 14 11/03/2023 01:54pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy's Tuscany region as Storm Ciar��n pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least six people in Italy and one person in Albania were killed on Friday Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/03/2023 01:37pm • 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 Third suspect surrenders over Massachusetts shooting blamed for newborn baby's death 11/03/2023 01:36pm • HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) ��� A third suspect has surrendered to police in connection with an investigation into a shooting in Holyoke last month where a pregnant woman on a bus was hit by a stray bullet and delivered a baby that later died. Kermith Alvarez, 28, of Holyoke, turned himself in to authoriti South Carolina city pays $500,000 to man whose false arrest sparked 2021 protests 11/03/2023 01:32pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A South Carolina city is paying a $500,000 settlement to a man whose treatment by a police officer during what turned out to be a false arrest led to days of protests. An attorney for Travis Price said the city of Rock Hill defamed Price by suggesting he was the aggressor in Jamaican security forces shot more than 100 people this year. A body camera was used only once 11/03/2023 01:17pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A government agency in Jamaica found that security forces were not wearing body cameras when they fatally shot or injured more than 100 people in the Caribbean island in the first half of the year. Only one body camera was worn during the 106 incidents ��� including 64 Prince George's Co. man charged with attempted murder in stabbing, carjacking of elderly woman 11/03/2023 01:14pm • The man who police say followed an elderly woman into a Prince George's County, Maryland, business earlier this week, stabbed her multiple times and then stole her car has been charged with attempted murder. In addition to first- and second-degree attempted murder charges, 30-year-old James Minor Serbia's pro-Russia intelligence chief sanctioned by the US has resigned citing Western pressure 11/03/2023 12:45pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Serbia's intelligence chief, who has fostered closer ties with Russia and is under sanctions by the United States, resigned Friday after less than a year in the post, saying he wanted to avoid possible further embargos against the Balkan nation. In July, the U.S. imposed sa A planted bomb targeting police kills 5 and wounds 20 at a bus stop in northwest Pakistan 11/03/2023 12:42pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle exploded near a police vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five people and wounding 20 on Friday, police said. The explosion happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, police Serbian police say some 3,400 migrants, weapons, ammunition found in week-long raids 11/03/2023 12:42pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Serbian police said Friday they have found some 3,400 migrants and seized weapons and ammunition during a days-long crackdown on irregular migration in the wake of a shooting last week near the border with Hungary that killed three migrants and wounded one. Earlier on Frida 2 killed in shooting at graveyard during Mexico's Day of the Dead holiday 11/03/2023 11:58am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Two men were shot to death while visiting a graveyard during Mexico���s Day of the Dead holiday, prosecutors said Friday. The two men were killed, and a third person wounded, in a shooting Thursday at a cemetery in the Mexico City suburb of Naucalpan. Mexicans traditionally vis GW University cancels public inauguration events as tensions build over Israel-Hamas war 11/03/2023 11:44am • George Washington University canceled many in-person events to celebrate the inauguration of President Ellen Granberg on Thursday and Friday, citing "global tensions" ��� a move that comes amid mounting campus tension stemming from demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas War. The inauguration