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Aid agencies warn of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans returning from Pakistan 11/02/2023 06:10am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Major international aid agencies on Thursday warned of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans who have returned from Pakistan, where security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners. The crackdown on illegal migration mostly affects Afghans b Brazil to militarize key airports, ports and borders in a crackdown on organized crime 11/02/2023 02:04am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazil's President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organized crime in Latin America's largest nat Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses 11/02/2023 01:50am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help get justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar, where one of the world���s less-noticed but still brutal armed struggles is taking place. Since the army seized power in Februar Executions in Iran are up 30%, a new United Nations report says 11/02/2023 12:33am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Iran is carrying out executions ���at an alarming rate,��� putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report. That's a 30% increase from the same period in 2022. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in At 15, he is defending his home and parenting his sister. One young man's struggle to stay in school 11/02/2023 12:14am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� This was the summer Deneffy S��nchez was supposed to learn algebra, biology and the other ninth grade classes he failed last year because he was too depressed and overwhelmed. But advancing to 10th grade had to take a back seat for now. He had more pressing concerns. It was J Bob Knight, Indiana���s combustible coaching giant, dies at age 83 11/02/2023 12:10am • BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) ��� Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball, has died. He was 83. Knight's family made the announcement on social media on Wednesday night. He was hospitalized with an illnes High school football rivals in Maine come together in emotional game after mass shooting 11/01/2023 11:10pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ��� The city of Lewiston took another tentative step in its recovery from Maine's deadliest mass shooting as a storied high school football rivalry resumed Wednesday night. Known as the Battle of the Bridge, the game featured cross-river rivals Lewiston High School and Edward Li Trooper accused of withholding body-camera video agrees to testify in deadly arrest of Black driver 11/01/2023 10:46pm • Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Louisiana state trooper accused of withholding graphic body-camera footage that shows another officer dragging Black motorist Ronald Greene by his ankle shackles during his deadly 2019 arrest. Lt. John Clary, the ranking officer at the scene, has agreed to 911 call shows man suspected in plan to attack Colorado amusement park was found dead near a ride 11/01/2023 10:40pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The body of a heavily armed man who authorities suspected was planning a ���heinous��� attack at a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado was discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bathroom at a building that houses a ride that drops 110-feet deep into caverns, accordi Panama's Assembly looks to revoke contract for Canadian mining company after public outcry 11/01/2023 10:23pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) ��� Facing a second week of impassioned, nationwide protests, Panama's National Assembly has nearly passed a new law revoking a controversial mining contract in an environmentally vulnerable part of country. The bill passed a second debate late on Wednesday and now faces a final vo Officer charged in Elijah McClain's death says he feared for his life after disputed gun grab 11/01/2023 09:47pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A police officer charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain testified Wednesday that he put the 23-year-old Black man in a neck hold because he feared for his life after another officer said McClain grabbed for one of their guns. P Hearing to determine if Trump can be barred from office reaches far back in history for answers 11/01/2023 09:46pm • DENVER (AP) ��� The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution's ���insurrection clause��� turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates. Ge Connecticut judge orders new mayoral primary after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing 11/01/2023 09:07pm • A judge on Wednesday tossed out the results of a Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut���s largest city and ordered that a new one be held, citing surveillance videos showing people stuffing multiple absentee ballots into outdoor collection boxes. The ruling came just six days before the general The woman accused of killing pro cyclist Mo Wilson tracked her on a fitness app, prosecutors say 11/01/2023 08:37pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� The murder trial of a woman accused of gunning down rising pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson and fleeing the country began Wednesday with Texas prosecutors telling jurors they would hear Wilson's final screams and the shots that killed her. Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, has pleaded not Escalating violence threatens Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico's northern Sonora state 11/01/2023 08:24pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� What started as an ambush quickly transformed into a manhunt on Wednesday afternoon, when police in Mexico���s northern border state of Sonora repelled a highway attack, then chased injured shooters into the mountains nearby. It was the second shootout in two days in a region wh