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World·New The presidential candidate of the conservative coalition that has governed Uruguay for the past five years conceded defeat on Sunday after a close run-off election. Yamandú Orsi’s centre-left Broad Front party says in statement that ‘joy will return’The Associated Press · Posted: Nov 24, 2024 8:34 PM EST |Continue Reading

World Heavy rain sparks landslide, flooding in Bolivian capitalTorrential rain on Saturday caused a river to spill its banks, dislodging mud from a southwestern La Paz neighbourhood where low-slung, shoddily built dwellings dot the hillside. Rescuers scramble to find 5-year-old child swept away by torrent of rocks and soilThe AssociatedContinue Reading

World Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found. The U.A.E.’s Interior Ministry later said authorities arrested three perpetrators involved in the killing of Zvi Kogan. Israel claims Zvi Kogan’s death was ‘antisemitic terror incident’ but offeredContinue Reading

World Israel says 7 injured after Hezbollah launches massive rocket, projectile volleyHezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with ceasefireContinue Reading

World The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said. Heavy rain, spoiling food adding to the misery ofContinue Reading

Azerbaijan carried out “ethnic cleansing” against the Armenian population 14 months ago in attacks on the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a new report by the Washington-based non-profit organization Freedom House has concluded. The comprehensive report, released on the first day of COP29, the United Nations climate conference that took place thisContinue Reading

World Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office has officials in Democratic jurisdictions preparing to defend against a barrage of executive orders, social media posts and even legislation from a Republican-controlled Congress that run counter to their policy preferences. Democratic officials haven’t forgotten 1st-term disputes over immigration, public health, protestsContinue Reading

World Israel said Sunday the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what the government described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.” Zvi Kogan’s body found amid suspicions he had been kidnappedThe Associated Press · Posted:Continue Reading

World Philippine vice-president publicly threatens to kill president, his familyPhilippine Vice-President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the Speaker of the House of Representatives if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not aContinue Reading