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• Mexico says it’s OK with getting less Pfizer vaccine for now

  17-01-2021 23:29
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his government has agreed with a U.N. proposal to delay shipments of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to countries like Mexico that had exiting purchase agreements, in order to get more doses to poorer countries. López Obrador said Sunday that the delayed shipments will be made up later. Mexico has so far received almost a half million doses of the vaccine and has used nearly all of them. López
  
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• The Latest: Slovakia wants tests for nearly all in nine days

  17-01-2021 23:00
  
  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia is launching a project to test almost all citizens for the coronavirus in nine days.
  The government hopes the nationwide testing will speed up a recovery from the latest wave of the infections, make it possible for students to return to school in February, help the health system and ease restrictions that harm the economy.
  The nationwide testing is set to start Monday and will be completed on Jan. 26. It’s not mandatory, but all people who want to go t
  
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• Small numbers of protesters gather at fortified US capitols

  17-01-2021 22:34
  
  Police and National Guard troops are standing sentry at newly fortified statehouses as small groups of armed demonstrators gather. The increased security at state capitols ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration comes as authorities work to deter a repeat of the recent riot that overran the U.S. Capitol. A few protesters gathered in some cities Sunday, including some carrying large guns. But streets remained empty around many other capitols. Some protestors supported President Do
  
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• History-making woman kicker invited to Biden inauguration

  17-01-2021 22:32
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she’s been invited to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Fuller posted on social media that she was honored to be invited and noted the inauguration “is especially meaningful for American women and girls.” Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will become the first woman to hold that office. Attendance at the inauguration will be strictly curtaile
  
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• The Latest: State capitol protests quiet, some already over

  17-01-2021 22:21
  
  Protests at state capitols were small and peaceful Sunday, just days after the FBI had issued a warning of armed demonstrations planned at statehouses across the country. By mid-afternoon, there were no signs of gatherings in Illinois or Virginia. In Carson City, Nevada, a counter-demonstrator carried a sign that said, “Trump Lost. Be Adults. Go Home.” In Michigan and Ohio, the small gatherings had ended by mid-afternoon. Officials had fortified statehouses with extra police, Nationa
  
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• After the weekend sunshine, rain is expected to head our way Tuesday

  17-01-2021 22:17
  
  TUCSON - The next week will feature plenty of rain chances for Southern Arizona with our best chance coming on Wednesday.
  Your Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is looking fantastic. The weather will be sunny with high temperatures in the mid 70's.
  Starting Tuesday afternoon a strong low pressure center will stall out over Arizona bringing rain to the valleys and snow in the mountains potentially through Friday.
  As of now most of the rain will be light to moderate rain with no thunderstorm or
  
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• Brothers jailed for attacking subway stationmaster in Greece

  17-01-2021 21:48
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two brothers, aged 17 and 15, who attacked an Athens subway stationmaster because he told them to wear masks on a subway train, will appear before a magistrate Tuesday for depositions. The two were jailed Saturday, charged with premeditated aggravated assault, a felony, as well as disobedience, for refusing to provide police with fingerprints. A 26-year-old police motorcycle patrol officer is facing charges of dereliction of duty and harboring a criminal for providing
  
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• Netanyahu rival hires anti-Trump Lincoln Project founders

  17-01-2021 21:40
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the March elections is getting some American campaign help. Israel’s Channel 12 reported Sunday that Gideon Saar, once Netanyahu’s protege, has hired the founders of the Lincoln Project, which ran a relentless campaign to help defeat President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 US elections. The Lincoln Project’s stated mission is to hold public officials leaders “accountable” and attacked Trump’s
  
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• Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space on 2nd try

  17-01-2021 21:32
  
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has reached space eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed.
  The company says a 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket released from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 aircraft off the coast of Southern California reached orbit Sunday. The rocket carried a cluster of very small satellites developed as part of a NASA educational program involving U.S. universities. Virgin Orbit a
  
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• Prada intros anti-uniform during all-digital Fashion Week

  17-01-2021 21:23
  
  MILAN (AP) — Luxury is fighting for survival and attention in this new world of rotating lockdowns, where virtually no one has anywhere to go. So it was a mostly captive audience that flocked to social media by the hundreds of thousands (and counting as the shows live on) to watch Milan designers unveil new menswear collections for next winter, which, vaccines willing, may see a return to in-person shopping. In its digitally conceived preview, Prada introduced the new anti-uniform that spe
  
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• Phoenix police: 1 man dead, 11 injured in separate shootings

  17-01-2021 21:20
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say one person is dead and 11 others injured in two separate shootings. They say officers responded to one scene about 5 a.m. Sunday. Police say one person was declared dead at an after-hours dance hall and six other victims were located and transported to hospitals by Phoenix Fire Department crews. Two hours earlier, police say five men were shot and wounded at a Phoenix strip mall. Three were transported to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds and t
  
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• Biden’s long political evolution leads to his biggest test

  17-01-2021 21:17
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has navigated a half-century in American politics by relentlessly positioning himself at the core of the Democratic Party. Wherever that power center shifted, Biden was there. The common thread was Biden framing himself as a mainstream liberal but also a pragmatist who still insists that governing well depends on compromise and consensus. Now Biden’s central political identity faces the ultimate trial. On Wednesday, the 78-year-old p
  
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• Protests start small at newly fortified US statehouses

  17-01-2021 21:09
  
  Police and National Guard troops are standing sentry at newly fortified statehouses ahead of demonstrations planned for the leadup to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The increased security comes as authorities worked to deter a repeat of the recent riot that overran the U.S. Capitol. A few protesters were starting to gather in some cities Sunday, but street in many others remained empty. Small groups of protesters, some armed, gathered outside the statehouses in Ohio, Michigan an
  
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• The Latest: After delays, Brazil approves two virus vaccines

  17-01-2021 20:41
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s health regulator on Sunday approved the urgent use of coronavirus vaccines made by Sinovac and AstraZeneca, enabling Latin America’s largest nation to begin an immunization program that’s been subject to months of delay and political disputes.Brazil currently has 6 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine ready to distribute in the next few days, and is awaiting the arrival of another 2 million doses of the vaccine made by AstraZeneca a
  
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• National Guard sleeping in the Capitol an echo of Civil War

  17-01-2021 20:37
  
  To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing. But it also was an echo of the far-distant past — the Capitol was used as a bivouac for troops during the Civil War. Among them was the great-grandfather of AP National Writer Allen G. Breed, who wrote to his wife that he wished she could look in on him and his fellow troops, and see how comfortably they had settled into life in the Capitol.The post Nation
  
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• Brazil’s health agency approves the use of two vaccines

  17-01-2021 20:22
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s health regulator on Sunday approved the urgent use of coronavirus vaccines made by Sinovac and AstraZeneca, enabling Latin America’s largest nation to begin an immunization program that’s been subject to months of delay and political disputes. Brazil currently has 6 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine ready to distribute in the next few days, and is awaiting the arrival of another 2 million doses of the vaccine made by AstraZe
  
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• Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot

  17-01-2021 20:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review of records finds that veterans of President Donald Trump’s failed campaign were key players in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol. The findings undercut claims that the Jan. 6 event was the brainchild of the president’s grassroots supporters. A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally.” Paperwork filed to get an event permit from the Nation
  
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• Actions by GOP attorneys general could damage credibility

  17-01-2021 20:10
  
  Republican state attorneys general who supported overturning the results of the presidential election with baseless claims of widespread fraud could be undermining their standing in courts. Some experts and former AGs say judges might not keep giving state attorneys general special standing after the efforts to subvert the election. Others say courts are likely to dismiss it as a political move and not change their views on the work done by those offices. An organization that supports Republican
  
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• Protests start small, peacefully at fortified US statehouses

  17-01-2021 19:53
  
  Police and National Guard troops are standing sentry at newly fortified statehouses ahead of demonstrations planned for the leadup to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The increased security comes as authorities worked to deter a repeat of the recent riot that overran the U.S. Capitol. A few protesters were starting to gather in some cities Sunday, but street in many others remained empty. Small groups of protesters, some armed, gathered outside the statehouses in Ohio, Michigan an
  
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• Movie Roundup: MLK Documentary a Highlight of The Loft Cinema's Open Air Cinema Series

  17-01-2021 19:42
  
  It's a relatively quiet week in the land of Tucson cinema, but things are afoot—to be described in future posts)—that might bolster your desire to see some new cinema in the outdoors.On the cinema news front, Legendary and Warner Bros. have settled their spat, resulting in Kong vs. Godzilla coming to theaters and HBO Max on the same day two months earlier. The film now has a March 26 release date, the day after my birthday.…
  
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• Democrats build impeachment case, alleging ‘dangerous crime’

  17-01-2021 19:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are building their case for convicting President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. The lead House prosecutor alleged that Trump’s incitement of a mob at the Capitol was “the most dangerous crime” ever committed by a president. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday that the storming of the Capitol was part of Trump’s effort to “dismantle and overturn” Joe Biden’s election victory. Democrats have not yet sai
  
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• Kremlin critic Navalny detained after landing in Moscow

  17-01-2021 19:28
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany. The prison service said he was detained Sunday for multiple violations of parole and terms of a suspended prison sentence and would be held in custody until a court makes a decision in his case. Navalny had spent the previous five months in Germany recovering from a nerve agent attack that he blamed on the Kremlin, and the prison service earl
  
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• 4th victim dies after gunman’s attacks in Chicago, suburbs

  17-01-2021 19:27
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a 61-year-old woman became the fourth person to die from a series of shootings this month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a police shootout. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says Marta Torres, of Evanston, died Saturday, a week after she and the others were shot during a series of shootings over a roughly four-hour period. Three others died and three were wounded in the attacks, which started on Chicago’s South Side and ended
  
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• TPD: Speedway and Arcadia Ave shut down after fatal collision

  17-01-2021 19:20
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Police have confirmed that the intersection of E. Speedway Boulevard and N. Arcadia Avenue is shutdown due to officers investigating a fatal collision that took place Sunday morning.Police advise to take alternative routes if you live in the area.We will provide updates as soon as they come into our newsroom.
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• Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after returning from Germany

  17-01-2021 19:14
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after returning from Germany.The post Russia’s prison service says opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after returning from Germany appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Pro-Trump demonstrations begin at statehouses

  17-01-2021 19:00
  
  Small groups of pro-Trump demonstrators, some armed, are beginning to gather outside statehouses, including in Michigan, Ohio and South Carolina. In Lansing, Michigan, state police troopers walked around the Capitol grounds as a small group of demonstrators stood near a chain-link fence surrounding the 142-year-old building. Several National Guard vehicles were on a nearby street. In Columbus, Ohio, about two dozen people, several of whom were carrying long guns, protested outside the Capitol. S
  
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• Tribute to King, rebuke of demagogues in Warnock sermon

  17-01-2021 18:59
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A day before the nation celebrates the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock of Georgia has returned to his pulpit at the church that was King’s spiritual home. Warnock delivered Sunday’s online sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he is the pastor. His message included a tribute to King and a call for the nation to adopt what he called “God’s vision of equity.” He also referenced what he called a
  
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• Palestinian president briefs Egypt, Jordan on election plan

  17-01-2021 18:36
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has hosted the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence chiefs in the West Bank to brief them on plans to hold the first Palestinian elections in 14 years. Abbas issued a decree on Friday announcing plans for parliamentary elections in May and a presidential election in July. The rival Islamic militant group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip from Abbas’ forces in 2007, has welcomed the decree. The elections would m
  
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• Kremlin critic Navalny, facing arrest, lands in Moscow

  17-01-2021 18:22
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow, where he faces the threat of arrest. But the flight landed Sunday at a different airport than had been scheduled, a possible attempt to outwit journalists and supporters who wanted to witness the return. Navalny, who is President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent and determined foe, was returning from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from poisoning by a nerve agent, which he bl
  
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• Plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow, where he faces the threat of arrest

  17-01-2021 18:19
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow, where he faces the threat of arrest.The post Plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow, where he faces the threat of arrest appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Guatemala forces stall migrant caravan with tear gas, batons

  17-01-2021 18:12
  
  VADO HONDO, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan police and soldiers have used tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock Saturday night. The roadblock was strategically placed at a chokepoint on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula in an area known as Vado Hondo. It’s flanked by a tall mountainside and a wall leaving the migrants with few options. Som
  
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• Dog and goat serving as mayor raise money for a playground

  17-01-2021 18:08
  
  FAIR HAVEN, Vt. (AP) — A goat and a dog who were each elected mayor of a Vermont town have helped raise money to renovate a community playground. The Fair Haven town manager came up with the oddball idea of pet mayor elections to raise money and to help get local kids civically involved. Town Manager Joe Gunter told the Rutland Herald that the election of Lincoln the goat as honorary mayor in 2018 raised about $10,000 while the current mayor, Murfee, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, has ra
  
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• Biden vows rapid steps to battle virus after inauguration

  17-01-2021 18:08
  
  MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden plans immediate moves to curb the coronavirus pandemic within days after he’s sworn in Wednesday. Biden’s incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, says the measures include extending the pause on student loan payments and actions to prevent evictions and foreclosures for those struggling during the pandemic. West Virginia is emerging as an early success story in the nation’s vaccine rollout. But cases in western states remain high
  
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• Rodin Museum sculpture garden reopens to public

  17-01-2021 17:35
  
  PARIS (AP) — There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew. The famous Rodin Museum sculpture garden reopened to visitors on Saturday. Though the rococo museum, showcasing the world’s largest collection of Rodin sculptures, remains closed, visitors are now able to enter the sculpture-filled surrounding gardens that overlooked the gold dome of Les Invalides monument. They had been shuttered s
  
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• Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push

  17-01-2021 17:29
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An anti-settlement monitoring group says Israeli authorities have advanced plans to build an additional 780 homes in West Bank settlements. The move marks a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. In a departure from Republican and Democratic predecessors, President Donald Trump took a tolerant position toward settlements. According to Peace Now, this has led to a surge in construction by Israel over the past f
  
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• Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81

  17-01-2021 17:26
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital. Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was sentenced to 19 years to life. The post
  
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• Thinning project provides firewood for northern Arizonans

  17-01-2021 17:12
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Tall stacks of logs left over from a forest thinning project in mountains overlooking Flagstaff are being processed into thousands of cords of free firewood to provide a winter heat source for northern Arizonans, including residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations. The Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project has conducted extensive forest thinning projects around Flagstaff in order to protect drinking water sources from wildfire. Project manager Neil Chapman said
  
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• Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dead at 81

  17-01-2021 17:09
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method whose later was convicted of murder, has died at age 81. California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.  Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was  given a 19 years-to-life sentence.&
  
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• Phil Spector, the revolutionary music producer convicted of murdering an actress, has died at 81.

  17-01-2021 17:02
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the revolutionary music producer convicted of murdering an actress, has died at 81.The post Phil Spector, the revolutionary music producer convicted of murdering an actress, has died at 81. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Biden aide says virus vaccine plan on track

  17-01-2021 16:57
  
  WASHINGTON — Incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain says the coronavirus pandemic will get worse before it gets better, projecting another 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the first five weeks of President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.
  Speaking to CNN’s “State of the Union,” Klain said Biden was inheriting a dire situation, saying even with vaccines, “It’s going to take a while to turn this around.”
  Biden has set a goal of injecting 100 m
  
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• Arizona reports 6,981 new COVID-19 cases and 18 more deaths

  17-01-2021 16:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Sunday reported 6,981 new COVID-19 cases and 18 more deaths as the state remains among the worst in the nation for the coronavirus surge. The latest numbers from the state Department of Health Services increased the totals to 673,882 cases and 11,266 known deaths since the pandemic began. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Arizona currently leads in the nation in cases and has the second-highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita
  
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• In inaugural address, Biden will appeal to national unity

  17-01-2021 16:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he’s sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies. That’s according to his incoming chief of staff.
  Biden intends a series of executive actions in his first hours after his inauguration, an opening salvo in what is shaping as a 10-day blitz of steps to reorient the country without
  
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• US military says its troop removal from Somalia is complete

  17-01-2021 16:28
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. military says its troop withdrawal from Somalia is complete, in one of the last actions of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Some experts have warned that the withdrawal comes at the worst possible time for Somalia, as the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group improves its bomb-making skills and continues to attack military and civilian targets even in the capital, Mogadishu. The withdrawal comes less than a month before Somalia is set to hold a
  
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• Italy’s South Tyrol again flouts Rome over virus closures

  17-01-2021 16:28
  
  MILAN (AP) — The autonomous province of South Tyrol with its German-speaking majority is flouting Rome’s decision to put it under partial lockdown starting Sunday. Provincial authorities are citing its autonomous status to allow stores and restaurants to remain open. Provincial officials are contesting the criteria that prompted the Rome government to designate South Tyrol a red zone, along with Lombardy and Sicily. The designations require authorities to close nonessential businesse
  
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• Arizona adds 6,981 new COVID-19 cases; 18 new virus-related deaths

  17-01-2021 16:28
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) – 6,981 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported Saturday.The state also reported 18 new COVID-19 related deaths.So far, Arizona has seen 673,882 known cases of the virus and 11,266 total deaths.RELATED: When can I register for a COVID-19 vaccine?WHAT TO KNOW:Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19 as the cause of death.The data incl
  
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• Phoenix police: 1 man dead, 9 injured in separate shootings

  17-01-2021 16:14
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say one person is dead and six others injured after a shooting outside a nightclub. They say officers responded to the scene about 5 a.m. Sunday. Police say one person was declared dead at the scene and six other victims were located and transported to hospitals by Phoenix Fire Department crews. Two hours earlier, police say at least men were shot and wounded at a Phoenix strip mall. All three were transported to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds.
  
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• Dutch police use water cannon on anti-government protesters

  17-01-2021 16:09
  
  OTTERLO, Netherlands (AP) — Police in Amsterdam have turned a water cannon on hundreds of demonstrators who were taking part in a banned protest against the Dutch government and its tough coronavirus lockdown. Police on horseback also moved in to break up the demonstration Sunday on a large square ringed by museums including the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam municipality says riot police took action to disperse the crowd because people weren’t adhering to social distanci
  
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• Portraits of US voters, assessing this moment in history

  17-01-2021 16:01
  
  After more than 1,400 days of Donald Trump’s presidency — after two bitter elections, two impeachments, more than 26,000 presidential tweets and four years of near-constant upheaval — it is left to American voters to tally it all up. The Associated Press talked with Americans of all political stripes and asked them to assess this moment in their country’s history. While some expressed confidence that the days ahead will find their country in a better place, others said th
  
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• ‘Little old West Virginia’ sets pace on vaccine rollout

  17-01-2021 16:00
  
  KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic coronavirus vaccine rollout. It’s largely a result of the state’s decision to enlist mom-and-pop pharmacies to give the shots, rather than agreeing to a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens. Now more shots have gone into people’s arms per capita across West Virginia than in any other state. Federal data shows that at least 7.5% of the population has received
  
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• Cargo ship sinks in the Black Sea; 3 dead, 6 rescued

  17-01-2021 15:57
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities say a cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Sunday, leaving at least three people dead. The transport ministry said the Palau-flagged ship named Arvin had anchored off the port of Bartin in northern Turkey due to bad weather, before breaking into two pieces and sinking. At least six crew members were rescued and the rescue operation is ongoing for other crew members. The ship was traveling to Bulgaria from Georgia but ran into heavy rains
  
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