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Southern US wildfires force residents to flee, leaving them unsure if their homes are standing

NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Wildfires tearing through the South have forced hundreds of Georgia residents to flee in minutes, leaving them distraught about the homes and animals they left behind. ...

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Murder retrial beginning in deputy's killing of a Black man entering his grandmother's Ohio home

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opening statements were set to begin Thursday in the retrial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged with murder and reckless homicide in the 2020 killing of Black man who was...

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Health data of 500,000 members of a UK project offered for sale online in China

LONDON (AP) — DNA and other confidential health data from 500,000 people who volunteered for a massive U.K. health study were offered for sale online in China following a data breach this week, the British...

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Trump orders US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has ordered the U.S. military to "shoot and kill" small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's post on social...

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Pope wraps up an Africa visit for the history books with a Mass in Equatorial Guinea

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his African odyssey on Thursday with a final Mass in Equatorial Guinea, bringing to an end one of the newsiest papal trips in the history of popes...

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From beauty to transportation, a lack of water and power forces Cubans to change their routines

HAVANA (AP) — Eduvirgen Zamora hides her hands out of embarrassment these days. Her nails are down to the quick, except for her thumbs, which feature inch-long talons covered in fancy silver...

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Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization

MACAPA, Brazil (AP) — Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The roadwork has also shown glimpses of the region's past long before...

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U.S. military says it seizes another oil tanker associated with Iran

The U.S. military on Thursday seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two...

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Trump likes a naval blockade. But Iran presents big differences from Venezuela and Cuba

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has turned to naval blockades to pressure the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and now Iran to meet his demands, but his preferred tactic is confronting a very...

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2021 collision of South Korean warplanes caused by pilots taking video, report says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 2021 midair collision of two South Korean fighter jets happened because a pilot made an abrupt maneuver to get a better angle for videos of the flight, a government report...

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