LISBON, Portugal (AP) – France and Luxembourg are joining Germany in sending medical staff to help at hospitals in Portugal, where deaths from COVID-19 remain the highest in the world by size of population. Germany’s Defense Ministry said Friday it’s extending by six weeks – into April – the deployment of military doctors, nurses and …
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) – More than 120 countries elected British lawyer Karim Khan on Friday as the next prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, one of the toughest jobs in international law because the tribunal seeks justice for the world’s worst atrocities — war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. His election on the second …
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BANGKOK (AP) – A draft cybersecurity law due to be implemented in Myanmar has raised protests that it will be used to quash dissent rather than protect privacy. Human rights advocates issued statements Friday urging the country’s military leaders to drop the plan and end internet disruptions that have intensified since a Feb. 1 coup. …
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Homeland Security will allow tens of thousands of migrants blocked by the Trump administration from jumping the border to enter the U.S. starting next week, erasing the brunt of a policy that had helped solve the last border surge. The migrants are part of the Migration Protection Protocols, more commonly referred to as the “remain …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — A man who pleaded guilty to killing a woman on a Georgia Army post was sentenced Thursday to nearly 60 years in federal prison. A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Stafon Jamar Davis of Savannah in the July 2018 slaying of Abree Boykin. Authorities said the 24-year-old woman was fatally shot as …
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