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Month: December 2025

Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port city over weapons shipment from UAE for separatists

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as “extremely dangerous.” The bombing followed tensions over the advance

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Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of a previous premier, dies at 80

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country’s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party said in a statement Tuesday. She was 80. Zia was the first woman elected prime minister of Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s interim government

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Alicia Johnson to become first Black woman elected to Georgia’s Public Service Commission

ATLANTA (AP) — Alicia Johnson will become the first Black woman elected to a statewide post that isn’t a judgeship in Georgia when she takes office on the state Public Service Commission on Thursday. Johnson held a ceremonial swearing-in Monday in the commission chambers in Atlanta, surrounded by family, friends and supporters. She called her

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