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• 4 the Weekend: 15th Annual Tucson Tamal & Heritage Festival

  05-12-2019 23:00
  
  Here are some fun events happening in southern Arizona this weekend of December 6-8th:
  WILDCARD15th Annual Tucson Tamal & Heritage Festival
  Casino Del Sol
  Saturday
  10:00 am - 5:00 pm
  FreeWILDCARD
  Zoo Lights Holiday Magic
  Reid Park Zoo
  Runs until December 30th
  $10 for Adults
  $6 for Children (2-14)WILDCARD2019 Marana Holiday Festival & Christmas Tree Lighting
  Marana Municipal Complex
  Saturday
  3-8PMWILDCARD
  7th Annual Walk For Kids
  University of Arizona Mall
  Sunday
  Opening ceremony at 9 AMT
  
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• Local program seeks mentors for troubled youth

  05-12-2019 22:56
  
  Being a mentor can change the course of a young person’s
  life.
  If you want to make a difference in a young person’s life
  and you have four hours a month to spare, you can become a mentor.“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” -Winston ChurchillCourtesy: Stephanie HarvinGoodGuides helps approximately 40 youths, offering
  one-on-one and group matches, depending on the preference of the mentor and the
  mentee.
  The program has traditionally run on gr
  
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• Crews battle apartment fire in central Tucson

  05-12-2019 22:37
  
  TUCSON – Crews responded to an apartment Thursday afternoon
  in central Tucson.
  Tucson Fire Department units were dispatched to Haskell
  Drive and Grant Road.
  TFD responded to an apartment fire near Haskell Dr and Grant Rd on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 /Google Maps
  Officials say water was coming from an apartment door on the second floor. As firefighters made their way inside, they found that two sprinkler heads had activated inside the apartment – putting out a bulk of the fire. The fire
  
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• CBP: Stolen vehicle used in human smuggling attempt near Douglas

  05-12-2019 22:15
  
  Courtesy: U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionTUCSON – A 34-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly smuggling
  three undocumented immigrants in a stolen vehicle east of Douglas Tuesday
  afternoon.
  According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
  Tucson Sector agents patrolling State Route 80 stopped a white Ford sedan they
  had learn was stolen.
  As agents questions the passengers, they discovered three Mexican nationals in the backseat of the vehicle.The immigrants were processed for
  
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• Palestinians outraged over ICC report into war crimes

  05-12-2019 21:54
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials are expressing “great concern” over a report by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor that includes a warning that Palestinian stipends to attackers and their families could constitute a war crime.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Thursday that the prosecutor’s office’s report was “based on misleading narratives of a political nature … rather than an objective and accurate description
  
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• Man arrested in November kidnapping case in Cochise County

  05-12-2019 21:45
  
  David Winklepleck / Cochise County Sheriff's OfficeCOCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. – A 48-year-old man was arrested in
  connection to a kidnapping case in Palominas, Ariz., last month.
  On Nov. 30, police responded to the call of a 41-year-old woman, who said David Winklepleck, her ex-boyfriend, became “aggressive and brandished a knife before restraining her to her bed with a belt and other clothing items and gagging her with tape across her mouth.”Reportedly,Winklepleck advised the vict
  
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• Mexico president hosts US AG behind closed doors in capital

  05-12-2019 21:35
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president and the U.S. attorney general have met behind closed doors about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his government could classify Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.Andrés Manuel López Obrador tweeted a photo of himself conversing with William Barr on Thursday in Mexico City.López Obrador said that “as a lawyer, (Barr) understands that our Constitution obliges us to stick to principles of coopera
  
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• Democrats take big new step toward impeaching Trump

  05-12-2019 21:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House is pressing forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.’’Our democracy is what is at stake,” Pelosi said somberly. “The president leaves us no choice but to act.”Pelosi delivered the historic announcement in solemn tones, drawing on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, as Democrats push toward a vote, possibly before Christmas.“The president&rsquo
  
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• Trump asks Supreme Court to void financial records subpoena

  05-12-2019 20:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to void a subpoena from the House of Representatives that seeks the president’s financial records from his accounting firm.The justices already have shielded the documents from being turned over while they consider whether to hear Trump’s case and his separate appeal of a court order that requires the same accounting firm, Mazars USA, to give his tax returns to the Manhattan District Attorney. The cour
  
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• Education Secretary pushes school vouchers at Arizona event

  05-12-2019 20:26
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday touted her $5 billion plan to fund tuition for private school students, telling a room of supportive parents and lobbyists that it would improve the quality of education.DeVos praised Arizona’s devotion to school choice programs that provide public funding for private and charter schools.
  “Arizona is a real leader in giving parents and students the kind of freedom that they need to find their right fit fo
  
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• UN says 13 people reportedly killed in Philippines typhoon

  05-12-2019 20:16
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian officials say typhoon Kammuri reportedly killed 13 people and displaced nearly 400,000 others as it crossed the Philippines with fierce winds and rain this week.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Thursday that the humanitarian experts also reported that more than 1,000 houses were destroyed and thousands more damaged.Kammuri toppled trees and electrical posts, ripped off tin roofs and battered a provincial airport as it blew across island province
  
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• Saudi oil producer Aramco announces $25.6 billion share sale, valuing company at $1.7 trillion in world’s biggest IPO

  05-12-2019 20:14
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil producer Aramco announces $25.6 billion share sale, valuing company at $1.7 trillion in world’s biggest IPO.
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• Israel: Hezbollah undeterred after recent setbacks

  05-12-2019 20:06
  
  SHTULA, Israel (AP) — A year after uncovering a network of cross-border Hezbollah tunnels, the Israeli military says the Lebanese militant group has beefed up its presence along the volatile frontier.Military officials say that neither the destruction of the tunnels, nor Hezbollah’s recent domestic problems, have weakened the group’s desire to prepare for renewed conflict with Israel.Col. Roy Levy, the commander of Israel’s Northern Border Brigade, says Hezbollah is a ser
  
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• PM: Israel has ‘full right’ to annex strategic Jordan Valley

  05-12-2019 19:40
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country has the “full right” to annex the Jordan Valley.Netanyahu said his proposal to annex the strategic part of the occupied West Bank was discussed during a late-night meeting in Lisbon, Portugal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.Netanyahu said he told Pompeo it was Israel’s “full right to do so, if we choose so.”Netanyahu also said they agreed to move forward with plans for
  
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• German bishop charged with embezzling 6-figure sum

  05-12-2019 19:27
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged a Catholic bishop with embezzlement after he allegedly took a six-figure sum from an elderly parishioner to buy himself a property.The diocese of Aachen said Thursday that Johannes Buendgens has pledged to cooperate fully with the investigation and is stepping aside from his position as auxiliary bishop with immediate effect.German news agency dpa reported that prosecutors in nearby Cologne accuse Buendgens of receiving almost 128,000 euros ($1
  
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• Turkey says 2 killed in car bomb attack in northeast Syria

  05-12-2019 18:37
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Defense Ministry says a car bomb explosion in a Turkish-controlled area of northeastern Syria has killed two civilians.In a statement posted on Twitter, the ministry said at least 10 other people were wounded in the attack in the city of Ras al-Ayn on Thursday.The attack was the latest in a string of deadly car bomb attacks in northeast Syria since Turkish troops and allied Syrian opposition fighters captured Ras al-Ayn and other areas in October to dri
  
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• News 4 Tucson Cooks: Double Truffle Mushroom Swiss Burger with a Fried Egg. Grilled Chicken Avocado Club

  05-12-2019 18:37
  
  Double Truffle Mushroom Swiss Burger with a Fried Egg. Grilled Chicken Avocado Club.Ingredients for dish (must be specific, no “secret ingredients”):Double Truffle Mushroom Swiss Burger with Fried Egg: Two certified angus beef patties, classic bun, two slices of swiss cheese, crimini mushrooms, fried egg, and truffle mayo.Grilled Chicken Avocado Club: All-natural chicken breast, multigrain bun, mayo, 1 ½ slices of applewood smoked bacon, 4 slices of fresh avocado, lettuce, rom
  
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• Giuliani in Ukraine as Congress moves closer to impeachment

  05-12-2019 18:31
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is in Ukraine on Thursday, reviving the efforts that landed him and Trump in the impeachment inquiry now roiling Washington.The inquiry was triggered by a July 25 phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son and also a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump denies wrongdoing.Giu
  
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• DPS director gets warning for weaving, driving 90+ mph on I-17

  05-12-2019 18:21
  
  CAMP VERDE, Ariz. — Arizona Department of Public Safety Director, Col. Frank Milstead was pulled over in October for driving more than 90 miles per hour on I-17 and weaving through traffic without using his turn signal.  Body camera video released by the Yavapai County Sheriff's office shows Milstead passing his badge to the deputy, and later joking with him about driving too fast. In the video, the deputy says that he wanted to "educate" Milstead and would give him a warning onl
  
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• An Axe to Grind: Axe Throwing World Championship comes to town

  05-12-2019 17:58
  
  The sport of axe throwing is nothing new, but over the last 10 years the sport has spread across North America, growing in popularity and becoming more accessible than ever before.Just last year, Tucson saw two ranges come to town, including Splitting Timber Axe Range on 6401 W. Marana Center Blvd., which will play host to the world’s best throwers this weekend during the 2019 World Axe Throwing League (WATL) Championship.The championship takes place on Dec. 8 and will pit 64 of the world
  
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• Spain hospital saves British woman after 6-hour heart stop

  05-12-2019 17:38
  
  MADRID (AP) — A 34-year-old British woman has been revived by Spanish doctors after enduring a six-hour cardiac arrest.Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron hospital said Thursday that Audrey Marsh got caught in a snowstorm in the Spanish Pyrenees on Nov.3 and suffered severe hypothermia before entering cardio-respiratory arrest.Six hours later, after being rescued by helicopter, she was revived in the hospital.Hospital doctor Eduard Argudo said Marsh arrived with a body temperature of 20
  
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• Putin offers US to extend key nuclear pact right now

  05-12-2019 17:30
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is prepared to immediately extend a pivotal nuclear arms reduction pact with the United States.Speaking at Thursday’s meeting with military officials, Putin said that Russia has repeatedly offered the U.S. to extend the New START treaty that expires in 2021 but hasn’t heard back.He said that “Russia is ready to extend the New START treaty immediately, before the year’s end and without any preconditions.&rdqu
  
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• US, Mexican authorities discover unfinished tunnel in Nogales

  05-12-2019 17:28
  
  Courtesy: Tucson Sector Border Patrol
  NOGALES, Ariz. – Authorities discovered an incomplete
  cross-border tunnel underneath the streets of Nogales on Wednesday, according
  to Tucson Sector Border Patrol.CBP says the tunnel was found during a routine, bi-national tunnel
  sweep of the stormwater drainage system that serves both Arizona and Sonora.
  Reportedly, the tunnel’s entrance was concealed in the floor
  of an existing drainage system with a pile of dirt and capped with a Styrofoam
  and
  
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• Greek minister resigns over Columbia degree he never got

  05-12-2019 17:26
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A junior cabinet minister in Greece’s center-right government has stepped down after confirming that he never received a degree for Columbia University studies listed on his resume.In a statement Thursday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accepted the resignation of Antonis Diamataris, a deputy foreign minister for Greeks of the diaspora.Diamataris, a New York-based publisher, had come under criticism following reports that he never graduated from an MBA cours
  
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• Ex-Slovak prime minister Robert Fico charged with racism

  05-12-2019 17:21
  
  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s police say they have charged former Prime Minister Robert Fico with racism for his comments about the embattled Roma minority.The investigators say Fico, a populist leader, publicly agreed with racist remarks about the Roma made by a far-right lawmaker who was convicted of racism by a court earlier this year.The 2016 radio remarks by the lawmaker, Milan Mazurek of the People’s Party Our Slovakia, included pejorative words and accusations a
  
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• UN says Zimbabwe’s cash shortage hurts aid delivery efforts

  05-12-2019 17:20
  
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The World Food Program says Zimbabwe’s cash shortage complicates efforts to rush aid to millions of people facing severe hunger.The U.N. agency’s country director Eddie Rowe said Thursday that challenges in accessing cash have delayed aid delivery to parts of the once-prosperous southern African nation.The agency is increasing the number of Zimbabweans it helps to more than 4 million. More than 7 million are in need, about half the population.A U.N. expe
  
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• Claytoon of the Day: Tickle Me NATO

  05-12-2019 16:53
  
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• Authorities say at least 28 killed in landslides in Burundi

  05-12-2019 16:19
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Burundi say at least 28 people have been killed in landslides after heavy rains and that toll could grow with many people missing.A local official in Mugina commune, Desire Ndagijimana says 28 bodies have been counted in Rukombe and Nyempundu in Cibitoke province in the northwest.Ndagijimana said Thursday that many other people might be in the ruins of their homes.Burundi’s security ministry in a Twitter post confirms 26 people dead, with 10 missi
  
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• US Postal Service has a new stamp that will raise money to help veterans with PTSD

  05-12-2019 16:17
  
  Healing PTSD stamp 
  Courtesy: U.S. Postal Service
  The U.S. Postal Service issued a new stamp this week to help
  raise funds for those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  The Healing PTSD stamp shows a green plant sprouting from
  the ground, which is covered in fallen leaves.
  U.S. Postal Services says the image “is intended to symbolize the PTSD healing process.”
  The stamp is being sold for 65 cents – a portion of the sales will go to the U.S. Department of
  
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• Authorities say at least 28 people killed in landslides in Burundi, with many others missing

  05-12-2019 16:17
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say at least 28 people killed in landslides in Burundi, with many others missing.
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• Iraqi protesters: At least 15 stabbed in Baghdad square

  05-12-2019 16:12
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Anti-government protesters say at least 15 people have suffered stab wounds in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of their movement, after political parties and Iran-backed militia groups briefly joined them, raising fears of infiltration by authorities.Lawmakers convened a parliament session Thursday to amend laws governing compensation to include victims of military operations, according to the session agenda seen by The Associated Press.There were over a dozen k
  
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• Poland says it foiled $517 million cocaine smuggling plan

  05-12-2019 16:07
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says the nation’s security services have foiled a $517 million (467 million euros) plan to smuggle Columbian cocaine to Europe.Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Thursday that it was the biggest drug smuggling scheme thwarted in democratic Poland’s 30-year history.He said officers from the state police and tax authorities used the “latest technology” to track down and pre-empt a plan for trafficking about two t
  
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• UK anti-fraud agency investigating commodities firm Glencore

  05-12-2019 15:56
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Commodities company Glencore says it’s facing an investigation by the British government’s fraud investigator amid suspicions of bribery.The company and Britain’s Serious Fraud Office confirmed the investigation in two-line statements. The fraud office said Thursday it involved the “Glencore group” and its “officials, employees, agents and associated persons.”Glencore, based in Baar, Switzerland, said it was cooperating with the inves
  
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• Kosovo court jails ex-Serb minister for ethnic hatred

  05-12-2019 15:53
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court has sentenced a former ethnic Serb minister to two years in prison for inciting ethnic hatred.The Pristina court said Thursday that Ivan Todosijevic incited national, racial, religious and ethnic hatred when he denied a massacre of Kosovo civilians in Recak in 1999, which prompted NATO to step in and stop the war, and he called ethnic Albanian independence fighters “terrorists.”Todosijevic was fired by outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradi
  
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• The Latest: French protesters set fires amid strikes

  05-12-2019 15:50
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on strikes in France (all times local):3:45 p.m.Small groups of protesters are hurling flares, smashing store windows and setting fires in eastern Paris amid mass strikes over the government’s retirement reform.Associated Press reporters saw demonstrators destroy a bus shelter as masked activists ran and threw projectiles on the sidelines of a big, otherwise peaceful protest Thursday.A stoplight blazed after a garbage can below was set alight. Protesters also
  
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• 2 Pakistani soldiers, 2 militants killed in shootout in NW

  05-12-2019 15:46
  
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says its troops have raided a militant hideout in a former tribal region bordering Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that killed two soldiers and two militants.In a statement, it said Thursday’s shootout took place near the village of Boya in the North Waziristan district.The military provided no further details, but the Pakistani Taliban in recent months have stepped up attacks on security forces in the region, which has been a sa
  
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• UK judge clears 3 men falsely convicted 50 years ago

  05-12-2019 15:42
  
  LONDON (AP) — A British judge has exonerated three black men who served time in prison 50 years ago based upon the testimony of a corrupt police officer.Judge Ian Burnett quashed the convictions of Winston Trew, Sterling Christie, both 69, and George Griffiths, 67, who were arrested after being swept up in a purse-snatching investigation.The men were arrested in 1972 at the Oval Underground station, together with another man another man, Constantine “Omar” Boucher.The group, du
  
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• Europe pledges additional support for quake-hit Albania

  05-12-2019 15:41
  
  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union’s new head for crisis management is visiting Albania to assess damages and reconstruction needs after last week’s powerful earthquake.In his first official mission as a member of the European Commission, Janez Lenarcic met Thursday with Prime Minister Edi Rama and visited quake-hit areas.The 6.4-magnited earthquake on Nov. 26 killed 51 Albanians and injured more than 3,000 others. More than 11,000 buildings were damaged and an estimated
  
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• Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel company suspends project with Iran because of its move to resume uranium enrichment

  05-12-2019 15:37
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel company suspends project with Iran because of its move to resume uranium enrichment.
  The post Russia’s state-run nuclear fuel company suspends project with Iran because of its move to resume uranium enrichment appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Nobel body: ‘Highly problematic’ that peace winner silent

  05-12-2019 15:06
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute says it is “highly problematic” that the 2019 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize won’t attend any event where he could publicly be asked questions.Olav Njoelstad says organizers “had wished that (Ethiopian Prime Minister) Abiy Ahmed would have agreed to meet the Norwegian and international press.”Njoelstad told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that most Peace Prize winners have no prob
  
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• Bosnian lawmakers break deadlock and appoint prime minister

  05-12-2019 15:00
  
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian lawmakers have appointed a new prime minister, paving the way for the formation of a government more than a year after a general election.The members of Bosnia’s parliament on Thursday voted 29 to 8 to approve Bosnian Serb politician Zoran Tegeltija as the new head of the Council of Ministers, which is Bosnia’s de-facto government.Tegeltija is set next to pick his ministerial team. All those tapped for office will need parliamentary a
  
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• Spain launches app to fight trafficking of protected timber

  05-12-2019 14:50
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition has launched a mobile app to fight the trafficking of tropical species of timber, one of the world’s greatest environmental crimes.The kit includes a guide of protected timber species, tools to obtain wood samples and an app that, together with magnifying lenses for mobile phones, can help custom officials identify the species on the spot.The launch happened at the U.N.-sponsored COP25 summit on climate change on Thursday
  
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• Maldives wants to restructure debt to China

  05-12-2019 14:50
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Maldives foreign minister says his country needs to restructure its massive debt to China, which he says has put the Indian ocean archipelago in a difficult situation.Abdulla Shahid said the country’s Chinese debt currently totals about $1.4 billion.He told reporters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Thursday that he is currently consulting with the Chinese government on this.The Chinese loans have been given for housing projects, a bridge connecting the airport
  
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• WATCH: Pelosi to deliver public statement on Trump impeachment

  05-12-2019 14:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would deliver an unusual public statement on the status of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.WATCH HEREOn Wednesday, Pelosi met behind closed doors with her Democratic caucus, asking, ”Äre you ready?”The answer was a resounding yes, according to those in the room.Democrats are charging toward a Christmastime vote on removing the 45th president, a situation Pelosi hoped to avoid
  
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• Pelosi to deliver public statement on Trump impeachment

  05-12-2019 14:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would deliver an unusual public statement on the status of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.On Wednesday, Pelosi met behind closed doors with her Democratic caucus, asking, ”Äre you ready?”The answer was a resounding yes, according to those in the room.Democrats are charging toward a Christmastime vote on removing the 45th president, a situation Pelosi hoped to avoid but which
  
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• Pelosi OKs drafting of impeachment articles against Trump

  05-12-2019 14:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the House is drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would deliver an unusual public statement on the status of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.On Wednesday, Pelosi met behind closed doors with her Democratic caucus, asking, ”Äre you
  
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• North Korea threatens to resume calling Trump ‘dotard’

  05-12-2019 14:37
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is threatening to resume insults of U.S. President Donald Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using words that provoke the North.North Korean 1st Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui made the comments on Thursday, days after Trump spoke of a possible military option toward the North and resumed calling its leader, Kim Jong Un, “rocket man.”Choe says her ministry “cannot contain its displeasure” over Trump&rsq
  
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• Vaccine group announces creation of Ebola vaccine stockpile

  05-12-2019 14:35
  
  LONDON (AP) — The vaccine alliance GAVI announced it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, a move health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control.GAVI is a public-private partnership that includes the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank, among others. The funding announcement was made Thursday after a meeting of GAVI’s board in New Delhi.S
  
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• Journalists rally to denounce threats to Pakistani newspaper

  05-12-2019 14:19
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani journalists and rights activists have rallied in support of a leading newspaper in Islamabad and elsewhere, days after Islamists gathered at the newspaper, threatening staff and demanding its editor be hanged.At Thursday’s rally, activists and journalists condemned this week’s besieging of English-language newspaper Dawn’s office in Islamabad.They criticized the anti-newspaper protesters who want editor Zaffar Abbas and publisher Hameed Haroon h
  
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• Erdogan warns NATO allies to back its fight against terror

  05-12-2019 14:09
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that Turkey dropped its objection to a NATO plan to bolster the defense of Poland and Baltic states neighboring Russia but warned allies that it expects support in its fight against terrorism.Erdogan made the comments to Turkish journalists in London on Thursday, a day after NATO members reaffirmed their commitment to collective defense at a summit meeting.Turkey had threatened not to endorse the plan for Poland and
  
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