WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday signed off on two new significant arms sales to Taiwan in approvals that are sure to rankle China. The State Department said it had okayed sales worth more than $425 million of spare aircraft parts to support Taiwan’s fleet of F-16 fighters, […]
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WRAPUP 1-Chinese capital prepares for ‘life again’ as lockdowns lift across country
By Ryan Woo and Bernard Orr Dec 6 (Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing dropped the need for people to show negative COVID tests to enter supermarkets and offices on Tuesday, the latest in an easing of curbs across the country following last month’s historic protests. “Beijing readies itself for life […]
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Warnock gains early voting edge as both candidates barnstorm Georgia in final day before Senate runoff
ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has built up an advantage in Georgia’s record-breaking early vote, putting Republican Herschel Walker in a position where he’ll need to deliver big on Election Day to win in Tuesday’s Senate runoff. Georgians have been bombarded with TV ads, radio messages, direct mail and […]
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HBCU students in Georgia face an extra obstacle in voting
When Lauren Nicks, a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, cast her vote in last month’s midterms, she did so in her home state of New York. Nicks, a 21-year-old international studies major at the historically black college, had been told months earlier by fellow students about a law that […]
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Nigeria’s Kaduna train attack: How I survived hijacking and captivity
Nigeria’s reopening of a vital high-speed train link nine months after an audacious hijacking is bringing back traumatic memories for some of the survivors, who are struggling to recover from their ordeal. Gunmen mined the track between the capital, Abuja, and the northern city of Kaduna on the evening of […]
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Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters
ATLANTA — Georgia has set new records for early voting again as the two Senate candidates blitz the state ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election. And the contest is drawing new voters, too. More than 1.85 million Georgians have voted early, according to the office of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, […]
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Red Sea soul: Revolutionary cries for recognition in Sudan
Noori with his “tambo-guitar” with him arms out near Port Sudan in Sudan In our series of letters from African journalists, Sudanese writer Zeinab Mohammed Salih samples some rhythms with a political agenda from Sudan’s Red Sea state. Short presentational grey line Noureddine Atta Al-Mawla Jabar’s new album, Beja Power!, […]
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Seoul arrests ex-top security official over border killing
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former national security director was arrested Saturday over a suspected cover-up surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020. Suh Hoon’s arrest early Saturday came as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government investigates his […]
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An influencer wanted a ‘Brazilian butt lift.’ She ended up at the hospital ‘covered in blood.’
Rachel Velasco remembers walking into the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles last year “screaming and covered in blood” at 3 a.m. Then 23 years old, she said she was in “indescribable agony” at the site of a surgery performed on her just hours earlier. “I’ve never been […]
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Egypt mothers misled into Caesarean sections – campaigner
Caesarean section rates are significantly higher in Egypt than other parts of the world, with some doctors accused of deliberately steering expectant mothers to choose this for their own convenience – and as a way of making money. “The doctor chose C-section not to interrupt his annual leave,” Mai Shami […]