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28 Sep, 2025
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Zookeeper reflects on caring for Latin America’s last panda
MEXICO CITY (AP): After a decade of caring for camels, lions, lynxes and lemurs, Joel Frías joined the team handling the Chapultepec Zoo’s star attraction: the giant pandas. It was 2000, and Mexico…
28 Sep, 2025
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Body of young migrant found on the beach as crossings to UK rise
PARIS (AP): French authorities announced the discovery Sunday of a body on a beach used as one of the launch points for migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing from northern France to the UK on…
28 Sep, 2025
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Death toll climbs to 40 after stampede at political rally for popular actor
NEW DELHI (AP) The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state’s health minister…
27 Sep, 2025
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Prominent educator with Guyanese heritage detained by ICE
DES MOINES, CMC-The Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) Friday confirmed that the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, Dr Ian Roberts, had been arrested by federal immigration authorities. …
27 Sep, 2025
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Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next
MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a separate weather system taking aim at the Southeast…
26 Sep, 2025
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UN says Haiti remains in the ‘eye of the storm’
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from…
26 Sep, 2025
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Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making a false statement, obstruction
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to…
26 Sep, 2025
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Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has…
26 Sep, 2025
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Humberto becomes a hurricane in the Atlantic as Gabrielle moves away from the Azores
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather…