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• Red Flag Warning issued May 22 at 3:16PM MDT until May 22 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-05-2021 23:16
  
  * AFFECTED AREA…Most of southeast Arizona, includingeverywhere from the Baboquivari Mountains eastward.
  * TIMING…Through 8 PM this evening.
  * WINDS…Out of the southwest at 15 to 30 mph, with gusts to 45mph. Winds will be slow to diminish this evening.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…Expect values between 6-13 percent followedby very poor overnight recoveries.
  * IMPACTS…Any fires that develop or are ongoing will have thepotential to spread rapidly and be resistant to contro
  
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• Wind Advisory issued May 22 at 3:11PM MDT until May 22 at 8:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-05-2021 23:11
  
  * WHAT…Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mphexpected.
  * WHERE…Southeast Pinal County, Upper San Pedro River Valley,Eastern Cochise County below 5000 feet, Upper Gila RiverValley, White Mountains of Graham and Greenlee Counties,Galiuro and Pinaleno Mountains, Chiricahua Mountains, Dragoonand Mule and Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains and Catalinaand Rincon Mountains.
  * WHEN…From 11 AM this morning to 7 PM MST this evening.
  * IMPACTS…These winds may impac
  
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• Toddler finds gun in sofa, accidentally shoots young sister

  22-05-2021 23:07
  
  LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister after finding a gun that had been hidden between sofa cushions by a family friend. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Saturday that the girl was in “exceptionally” critical condition. Investigators say the gun was brought into the Lakeland, Florida, home by one of three men who had gathered Friday night to watch TV. Judd says 23-year-old Kevonte Wilson told investigators he h
  
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• The wind will die down late tonight leading into a fantastic Sunday

  22-05-2021 22:56
  
  TUCSON - The windy conditions will stay in place for the rest of Saturday, but Sunday the winds will calm.We have been dealing with a south wind for the last few days that has been gusting as high as 35-40 mph.Starting tomorrow we will see more of a northerly wind that will not be nearly as strong.This wind shift will also keep our temperatures cool. Afternoon temperatures in Tucson will top out in the upper 80's.We will be back in the 90's for high temperatures by Monday.
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• CNN cuts ties with Rick Santorum over disparaging comments

  22-05-2021 22:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is cutting ties with former Republican senator and current TV analyst Rick Santorum over disparaging comments he made about Native American culture. He sparked controversy in an April 23 speech before the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth organization. Santorum said immigrants created a nation based on the Judeo-Christian ethic from a blank slate. The comment prompted Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, to call him &l
  
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• The Daily Saguaro, Saturday, 5/22/21

  22-05-2021 22:00
  
  The trunk of this saguaro is as big as any I've ever seen... …
  
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• Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic want North Macedonia in EU

  22-05-2021 21:54
  
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The foreign ministers of Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia have voiced unanimous support for North Macedonia and Albania to start membership talks with European Union. The three arrived in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, on Saturday to offer their backing for EU accession talks scheduled for June. Bulgaria refused last year to approve the EU’s membership negotiation framework for North Macedonia, effectively blocking membership talks wit
  
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• Volcano erupts near Congolese city of Goma; residents flee

  22-05-2021 21:43
  
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma. Residents in the city of nearly 2 million began fleeing in panic as the skies turned a fiery red Saturday evening. The city is also close to the Nyiragongo volcano, whose last eruption in 2002 left hundreds dead and coated airport runways in lava. The governor said it had erupted again. But the Volcano Observation Office in Goma says it a different volcano, Nyamulagiram which erupted around 7 p.m
  
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• Senior Sudan official resigns over killing of 2 protesters

  22-05-2021 21:38
  
  CAIRO (AP) — A senior Sudanese official has resigned in protest over the killing of two protesters this month. Aisha Mousa, a member of the ruling Sovereign Council, says she submitted her resignation a day after troops forcibly dispersed a protest outside the military headquarters in Khartoum. Two young protesters were killed and over three dozen others were wounded at the time. Mousa claims that civilians in the 14-member joint military and civilian Sovereign Council have been sidelined.
  
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• Volcano erupts near Congolese city of Goma; crowds flee

  22-05-2021 21:29
  
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma. Residents in the city of nearly 2 million began fleeing in panic as the skies turned a fiery red Saturday evening. The city is also close to the Nyiragongo volcano, whose last eruption in 2002 left hundreds dead and coated airport runways in lava. The governor said it had erupted again. But the Volcano Observation Office in Goma says it a different volcano, Nyamulagiram which erupted around 7 p.m
  
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• The Latest: US coronavirus cases at lowest levels since June

  22-05-2021 21:26
  
  NEW YORK — New coronavirus cases in the U.S. have decreased to rates not seen since June.It’s sparking optimism that vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID-19 cases and the spread of the virus.
  The seven-day average for new cases dropped below 30,000 per day this week. CDC director Rochelle Walensky says cases haven’t been this low since June 18.The average number of deaths over the last seven days also dropped to 552, a rate not seen since July.
  Health experts cr
  
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• Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma, panicking residents

  22-05-2021 21:20
  
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma, panicking residents.The post Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma, panicking residents appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: UN Security Council urges aid for Palestinians

  22-05-2021 20:58
  
  The U.N. Security Council is welcoming the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers and calls for full adherence to the cessation of hostilities. Saturday’s statement said the council “mourned the loss of civilian lives resulting from the violence” and “stressed the immediate need for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian civilian population, particularly in Gaza.” It also “reiterated the importance of achieving a comprehensive peace based
  
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• Jewish man reports assault with slur in Germany’s capital

  22-05-2021 20:52
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany say they are investigating a Jewish man’s report of being punched in the face and abused with antisemitic language while walking home in Berlin. Police said the 41-year-old man was wearing a traditional skullcap when he passed three other men in a Berlin square early Saturday. The man told police that one of three punched him in the face and added an anti-Jewish insult. German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her weekly video podcast on Saturd
  
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• The Latest: Tel Aviv rally calls for Jewish-Arab coexistence

  22-05-2021 20:34
  
  Thousands are rallying in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, calling for coexistence between Jews and Arabs. The demonstration on Saturday night was one of several held across Israel to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of 11 days of fighting in Gaza that ended with a cease-fire early on Friday. Demonstrators marched through the city and later gathered in the central Habima Square to hear from politicians and artists. Ayman Odeh, the leader of the main Arab party in parliam
  
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• Suns draw defending champ Lakers in return to NBA playoffs

  22-05-2021 20:09
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns got a tough draw in their return to the NBA playoffs for the first time in 11 years. The Suns finished with the league’s second-best record in the regular season but must face the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in the first round. Lakers superstars LeBron James and Anthony Davis are back on the floor after missing much of the regular season with injuries. The Suns have built their best team in years by adding veterans Chris Paul and Jae Crowder
  
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• Romania’s biggest Catholic service offers faith, vaccines

  22-05-2021 20:09
  
  MIERCUREA CIUC, Romania (AP) — More than 35,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims have congregated at an open-air shrine in Romania’s Transylvania region for a centuries-old procession that was canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The service in Sumuleu Ciuc is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and dates back more than 450 years. For the tens of thousands of Catholics in the overwhelmingly Christian Orthodox country who attended in droves, resuming their faith’s biggest nationa
  
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• New COVID-19 cases plummet to lowest levels since last June

  22-05-2021 20:03
  
  New coronavirus cases across the United States have tumbled to rates not seen since June last year. It’s sparking optimism that vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID-19 cases and the spread of the virus. As cases, hospitalizations and deaths steadily dropped this week, life in America has largely resumed. Health experts credit the rollout of vaccines to a dramatic turnaround since January. But they also cautioned that not enough Americans have been vaccinated to completely e
  
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• Gaetz, Greene cheer election audit in Arizona rally

  22-05-2021 20:02
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Two of the Republican Party’s most controversial figures say an ongoing audit of the 2020 election in Arizona should be replicated in all the battleground states where President Donald Trump lost. U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida took their “America First Rally” to the Phoenix suburbs Friday night. They told a crowd of several hundred Trump supporters in Mesa that they came to Arizona to stand in solidarity with the
  
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• Texas Secretary of State Hughs to resign at month’s end

  22-05-2021 19:58
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Secretary of State Ruth Ruggero Hughs, the state’s top elections official, will resign at the end of May. Hughs was appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2019 but never received a required confirmation vote by the state Senate. Hughs said in a letter to Abbott dated Thursday that the time is right for her to step down and focus on private practice. Senate Nominations Committee Chair Dawn Buckingham’s office declined comment to the Texas Tribune and her chi
  
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• Migrants with children sleep rough in Bosnia border village

  22-05-2021 19:25
  
  BOSANSKA BOJNA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Dozens of migrant families with small children have been sleeping rough in a village by Bosnia’s border with Croatia while looking for a chance to cross and move on toward Western Europe. People fleeing war and poverty in their countries in the Middle East, Africa or Asia are staying in small tents and abandoned houses with no running water or electricity. The village, the Bosanska Bojna, was all but emptied during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
  
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• Hamas defiant with military parade, appearance of top leader

  22-05-2021 19:23
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Masked Hamas fighters brandishing assault rifles have paraded through the streets of Gaza City and the group’s top leader appeared in public for the first time. Saturday’s march came on the first full day of a cease-fire that halted the militant group’s war with Israel, which lasted 11 days. Also on Saturday, Egyptian mediators held talks to firm up the truce which ended the fourth Israel-Hamas war in just over a decade. In the fighting, Israe
  
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• Fire at Poland’s largest lignite mine out, unit to be shut

  22-05-2021 19:06
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An energy company in Poland says a fire engulfed a conveyer belt at Poland’s largest brown coal mine before it was extinguished. The midday fire at the Belchatow mine on Saturday covered the area that includes Poland’s largest lignite power plant with huge clouds of black smoke. The fire was the second incident this week forcing the suspension of some of the power plant’s generators. State energy group PGE said the fire was caused by the ignition of
  
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• Las Vegas officials hold pop-up vaccine clinic at strip club

  22-05-2021 18:49
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas officials held a pop-up vaccine clinic at strip club. Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club was an unconventional site for a walk-in vaccination clinic Friday night, but as government officials and health workers try to address the slowing demand for COVID-19 vaccines, they’re increasingly turning to creative ways to incentivize people to show up and get a shot. JoAnn Rupiper with the Las Vegas-area health department says it’s one more way to reach the com
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II visits navy carrier ahead of deployment

  22-05-2021 18:41
  
  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has made a quick visit to the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her eponymous 16th-century predecessor as it prepares for its maiden operational deployment. The HMS Queen Elizabeth is named after the Tudor-era monarch who vanquished the Spanish Armada. It will be leading a 28-week deployment to Asia that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted is not confrontational toward China. The 3 billion-pound ($4.2 billion) ship, w
  
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• The Latest: Top Hamas leader seen in public after Gaza war

  22-05-2021 18:34
  
  The top Hamas leader in Gaza has made his first public appearance since the militant group’s war with Israel erupted earlier this month. Israel had bombed the homes of senior Hamas figures during 11 days of fighting, as part of its attack on the group’s military infrastructure. The home of Yehiyeh Sinwar was also attacked. He was seen on Saturday as he paid his respects at a house of mourning for a Hamas commander killed in the war. Israel’s defense minister has said top Hamas
  
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• Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico

  22-05-2021 18:30
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic has made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. Virgin Galactic announced the firing of VSS Unity’s rocket motor Saturday to hurtle the ship and two pilots toward space. A live NASA video feed estimated a top altitude of at least 50 miles and confirmed a landing later via radar. British billionair
  
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• Ana, first named Atlantic storm of 2021, forms near Bermuda

  22-05-2021 18:01
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The first named Atlantic storm of the season is posing no threat to land and is expected to dissipate in a few days. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Subtropical Storm Ana is drifting east over the Atlantic Ocean after bringing rain to Bermuda. Ana was located about 175 miles northeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, the hurricane center said in an 11 a.m. advisory. It was moving west at 3 mph. The system was expected to continue its slow and erra
  
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• The Latest: White House vibe returns to hugging, no masks

  22-05-2021 17:48
  
  WASHINGTON — There’s a new vibe at the White House of late — hugs are in. Masks are mostly out.The recent relaxation in federal guidance about wearing masks and distancing comes after more people have been vaccinated.
  The White House is taking on the look and feel of pre-pandemic days. More West Wing staffers have been turning up for work there and, soon, so will more reporters. The administration is sending a message that a return to normal is possible with vaccinations.
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• Oregon among blue states slow at lifting COVID restrictions

  22-05-2021 17:40
  
  CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — Even as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved earlier this month to ease indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, some blue states like Oregon and Washington are still holding on to certain longtime coronavirus restrictions. While Northwest states are adapting the new federal mask guidance they are maintaining indoor capacity restrictions, likely through the end of June. Officials in Oregon are split, some insisting life wil
  
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• Defense Secretary tells West Point cadets they’re ready

  22-05-2021 17:31
  
  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told U.S. Military Academy cadets they were graduating during “exceptionally tough circumstances” but that West Point prepared them to face the extraordinary threats from pandemics to terrorism. Austin spoke to about 1,000 cadets becoming U.S. Army second lieutenants in a ceremony held with pandemic precautions at West Point’s football stadium. Austin is a 1975 graduate of West Point. And he recalled his own year
  
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• With more border crossers, US groups seek to stem deaths

  22-05-2021 17:23
  
  FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) — Some migrants are willing to risk walking through a dangerous stretch of rough terrain in a vast valley of Texas ranchlands and brush to avoid detection by border authorities. This elusive group is usually single adults who may walk long distances through the shrub-invaded grasslands on sprawling ranches to circumvent U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints where agents verify people’s immigration status. They’re less likely to surrender to U.S. authorities to s
  
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• Leaving home: West Virginia population drop is largest in US

  22-05-2021 17:09
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has seen a higher percentage of residents depart than any other state in the past decade. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that from 2010 to 2020, the population has dropped 3.2% — about 59,000 people. Reasons for not staying vary, but common themes emerge: A lack of opportunity or low pay; not enough to do; poor cell phone service and internet issues, and a political climate that some find oppressive. In an effort to reverse the population losses
  
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• China’s Yuan Longping dies; rice research helped feed world

  22-05-2021 17:06
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, has died. He was 91. Known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice,” Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China. Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan’s breakthrough discoveries in the 1970s. That’s according to the World Food Prize, which Yuan won in 2004. C
  
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• UNESCO exhibit in Venice focuses on rebuilding Mosul sites

  22-05-2021 16:06
  
  VENICE, Italy (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural agency has opened an exhibit detailing plans to restore multicultural landmarks in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The exhibit is on the sidelines of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition that opened Saturday in Venice after a one-year pandemic delay under the title: “How will we live together?” The Venice Biennale’s central question resonates in particular in Iraq. During the Islamic State group’s 36-month o
  
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• Albania’s president denounces US sanction of former leader

  22-05-2021 15:44
  
  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s president has offered public support to a former prime minister who was sanctioned by the United States this week for corruption. President Ilir Meta made public a letter to former Prime Minister Sali Berisha that described the sanctioning of the politician as a “shameful, unfaithful and nasty act” prompted by anti-Albanian lobbying. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Berisha on Wednesday of “using his power for his own b
  
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• Ex-BBC head quits gallery job amid Diana interview fallout

  22-05-2021 15:43
  
  LONDON (AP) — The former director of the BBC has resigned as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery following a report on the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana. The report published Thursday heavily criticized Tony Hall for a botched internal inquiry into how its journalist obtained the blockbuster interview. Hall said Saturday that his continued presence at the gallery would be a “distraction to an institution I care deeply about.&rd
  
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• Floyd legislation reveals divide in police-reform movement

  22-05-2021 15:33
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — As the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder approaches, some people say the best way to honor him is for Congress to pass a bill in his name that overhauls policing. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would ban chokeholds, prohibit no-knock raids and create a national registry for officers who are disciplined for serious misconduct. But many activists warn that some of the proposed reforms have not been enough to stop past police abuses. Their reservations refle
  
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• After an absence, New England’s ticks are back — and hungry

  22-05-2021 15:31
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A late-summer drought virtually eliminated ticks in parts of New England but they’re back with a vengeance this spring. Dog ticks, which do not carry Lyme disease, have been especially active since early spring in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The busy spring for ticks has been sending more people to the emergency room in Maine. The state reported 176 tick-related emergency department visits for the week that ended May 16. Last year, that same week saw 91 t
  
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• EXPLAINER: Much about US pullout from Afghanistan is unclear

  22-05-2021 15:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When he pulled the plug on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said that the reasons for staying, 10 years after the death of Osama bin Laden, had become “increasingly unclear.” Now that the final withdrawal is under way, questions about clarity have shifted to Biden’s post-withdrawal plan. What would the United States do, for example, if the Taliban took advantage of the U.S. departure by launching an offensive to seize power? Biden acknowl
  
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• Biden betting on wage growth, while GOP warns of inflation

  22-05-2021 14:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is giving a bit of simple advice to businesses that are unable to find workers: Offer people more money. This recommendation is in a White House memo about the state of the economy, and it gets at a fundamental tension in an economy that’s returning to full health after the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses are coping with spiking prices for goods such as steel, plywood, plastics and asphalt. But workers are no longer interested in accepting
  
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• The Latest: Gaza official: 2k housing units destroyed in war

  22-05-2021 14:47
  
  A Palestinian official says an initial assessment shows at least 2,000 housing units were destroyed in the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza. Naji Sarhan, deputy of Gaza’s works and housing ministry, tells The Associated Press on Saturday that more than 15,000 other units were partly destroyed in the 11-day war. Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes on the overcrowded strip, targeting residential, commercial and government buildings. It said it was going afte
  
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• New voter ID rules raise concerns of fraud, ballot rejection

  22-05-2021 14:37
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans in Florida, Georgia and other states have seized on former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud to push ID requirements for voters to request or return mailed ballots. Casting ballots by mail was immensely popular during the 2020 presidential election, which was held during the coronavirus outbreak. Critics say adding ID requirements to request a mailed ballot is unnecessary and creates one more opportunity for voters to make a mistake th
  
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• Black man’s death fuels debate over police shooting at cars

  22-05-2021 14:36
  
  ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — Many U.S. police departments limit shooting at moving vehicles because they consider the practice to be ineffective and not worth the risk to human life. But dozens of such shootings still occur each year with deadly results. The latest high-profile case involved an unarmed Black man in North Carolina named Andrew Brown Jr. Police-reform groups say many departments give officers too much leeway. They say officers should only shoot if deadly force other than the
  
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• China’s Yuan Longping, ‘Father of Hybrid Rice,’ dies at 91

  22-05-2021 14:33
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, has died. He was 91. Known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice,” Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China. Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan’s breakthrough discoveries in the 1970s. That’s according to the World Food Prize, which Yuan won in 2004. C
  
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• The Latest: Climbing guide says 100 virus cases on Everest

  22-05-2021 14:31
  
  KATHMANDU, Nepal — An expert climbing guide says a coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff.That’s the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese denials of a COVID-19 cluster on the world’s highest peak. Lukas Furtenbach of Austria says his estimate is based on confirmations from rescue pilots, insurance providers, doctors and expedition leaders, among others.He spoke with The Associated Press in Kathmandu on Saturday,
  
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• The Latest: UN says war took toll on Gaza clean water access

  22-05-2021 14:06
  
  The United Nations says approximately 800,000 people in Gaza don’t have regular access to clean piped water. The world body says nearly 50% of the water network was damaged in the recent fighting. Quoting Gaza’s public works and housing ministry, the U.N. ’s office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said nearly 17,000 residential and commercial units have been damaged or destroyed. These include 769 housing and commercial units that have been rendered uninhabitable, a
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II visits carrier ahead of maiden deployment

  22-05-2021 14:00
  
  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has made a quick visit to the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her eponymous forebear, ahead of its maiden operational deployment. HMS Queen Elizabeth, named after the Tudor-era monarch who vanquished the Spanish Armada, will be leading a 28-week deployment to the Far East that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted is not confrontational towards China. The 3 billion-pound ($4.2 billion) ship, which has eight RAF F35B s
  
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• Defense Secretary addresses graduating West Point cadets

  22-05-2021 13:57
  
  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will speak to graduating U.S. Military Academy cadets Saturday in a ceremony at West Point’s football stadium with pandemic precautions. Austin is a 1975 graduate of West Point. He will address about 1,000 cadets who will become U.S. Army second lieutenants on Saturday. West Point’s graduation ceremony is returning to Michie Stadium a year after the pandemic prompted a change in venue. Last year, then-President Donald Trump
  
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• US commander says more work needed to counter small drones

  22-05-2021 13:56
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East says finding better ways to counter attacks by small drones across the region is a top priority and that the U.S. is still behind the curve on solutions. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie visited Iraq this past week and told reporters traveling with him that the use of small drones by Iranian-backed militia is only going to grow in the next few years. His comments come about a month after an explosives-laden drone targeted U.S. forces at a
  
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