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Thousands celebrate Ethiopia's thanksgiving festival 10/05/2025 06:51am • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ��� Thousands gathered in Ethiopia���s capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday for the East African country���s thanksgiving festival, which is celebrated annually by the largest ethnic group, the Oromos, who were donning mostly white traditional attire. The Irreecha festival is Japan's first female governing-party leader is an ultra-conservative star in a male-dominated group 10/04/2025 10:50pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan's long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative star of a male-dominated party that critics call an obstacle to women's advancement. Sanae Takaic Japan���s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become first female PM 10/04/2025 08:37pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country���s first female prime minister. In a country that ranks poorly internationally for Over 600 couples tie the knot in Asunci��n, Paraguay's mass civil wedding 10/04/2025 07:03pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� More than 600 couples married simultaneously Saturday in Asunci��n, Paraguay. Thousands said ���I do��� in unison as part of a government initiative to make civil weddings more accessible across the country. The campaign, called ���United by Love and Protected by Law Netanyahu hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza 'in the coming days' 10/04/2025 06:13pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza ���in the coming days,��� as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on Monday on a new U.S. plan to end the war. In a brief statement late Saturday, Netan Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyers plan to appeal as convicted hip-hop star faces more years behind bars 10/04/2025 03:24pm • Attorneys for Sean ���Diddy��� Combs are planning to appeal after the Grammy-winning artist and music executive was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. The case shattered his carefully cultivated reputation as an affabl Gen Z protests are shaking Morocco. Here's what to know 10/04/2025 03:22pm • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Demonstrations in more than a dozen cities have jolted Morocco for a week straight, with the young people behind them showing they can translate digital discontent into a real-world movement that authorities can���t ignore. The North African nation is the latest to be rocked Sheffield Wednesday fans enter pitch to protest against club ownership 10/04/2025 11:09am • SHEFFIELD, England (AP) ��� A dozen fans of second-division Sheffield Wednesday entered the pitch during the team's game against Coventry on Saturday in a protest against the struggling club's ownership. The pitch invasion early in the first half caused a five-minute stoppage of play as security per Legal setbacks mount for Trump���s birthright order before likely Supreme Court review 10/04/2025 08:10am • BOSTON (AP) ��� Over a span of a month this summer, four separate federal courts rejected President Donald Trump���s executive order ending automatic citizenship for the children of people in the country illegally or temporarily. On Friday, one more court weighed in, and the result was no different The Latest: Hamas accepts some elements of Trump���s peace plan for Gaza, others require negotiation 10/03/2025 09:44pm • Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump ���s proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, agreeing to give up power and release all remaining hostages, but the group said that other elements require further consultations among Palestinians. Trump���s peace plan has been accepted by Israe Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering protest near Atlanta deported to El Salvador 10/03/2025 08:54pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Spanish-language journalist who had been in immigration detention in Georgia since June was deported Friday to El Salvador. Mario Guevara, 48, was covering a protest just outside Atlanta on June 14 when local police arrested him and then turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Cus Judge remains undecided on treatment plan for man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston 10/03/2025 08:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A judge remained undecided Friday on the treatment and placement plan for a man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and ramming his car into the front gate of her home. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, a 48-year-old from Mississippi, has pleaded not guilty to felony stalking and vandali Trump reverses $187M funding cuts for New York counterterrorism after bipartisan outcry 10/03/2025 07:56pm • President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York���s law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from New York officials. The Republican announced the restoration of federal funding on Portland braces for federal troops as protests escalate and a conservative influencer is arrested 10/03/2025 07:18pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for its history of civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops being deployed by President Donald Trump. Months of demonstrations outside Po Iowa school district sues firm that vetted superintendent as authorities detail his criminal history 10/03/2025 07:17pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Federal authorities on Friday said the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district had a history of criminal charges before his arrest by immigration agents last week, which shocked the community and prompted the school board to sue the consulting company it hired to v