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After accepting US deportees, South Sudan wanted sanctions relief for top official, documents show

By JOSEPH FALZETTA Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars

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Scale of Iran’s nationwide protests and bloody crackdown come into focus even as internet is out

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The bloodiest crackdown on dissent since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution is slowly coming into focus, despite authorities cutting off the Islamic Republic from the internet and much of the wider world. Cities and towns smell of smoke as fire-damaged mosques and government offices line

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Sports Betting Line

By The Associated Press NFL Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG New England 5½ 3½ (43) at DENVER at SEATTLE 2½ 2½ (46) LA Rams NBA Sunday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at DETROIT 13½ (225½) Sacramento at MEMPHIS 2½ (226½) Denver at MINNESOTA 6½ (235½) Golden State at SAN ANTONIO 12½ (237½) New Orleans at

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Freezing and in the dark, Kyiv residents are stranded in tower blocks as Russia targets power system

By DEREK GATOPOULOS, VASILISA STEPANENKO, and VOLODYMYR YURCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Olena Janchuk spends another day of freezing isolation in her high-rise apartment. The former kindergarten teacher has severe rheumatoid arthritis, and has been trapped for weeks on the 19th floor of her Kyiv tower block, 650 steps from the ground. Long

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Trump stirs talk of ‘new world order’ as leaders signal shifting global alliances

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gives. And he takes away. Offended by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s increasingly assertive posture toward the U.S., Trump revoked an invitation to join his Board of Peace. Many Western allies are suspicious of the organization, which is chaired by Trump and was initially

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Justice Department says Jack Smith report on Trump investigation ‘belongs in dustbin of history’

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history” and should remain sealed, the Justice Department said in a sharply worded court filing Friday. “The illicit product of an unlawful investigation

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Spanish prosecutors drop sexual assault complaint against Julio Iglesias

MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain’s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old

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