A 1st Armored Division soldier at Fort Bliss, Texas has been charged with sexually assaulting three women over the past year, including a fellow soldier who was found dead a year on New Year’s Eve. Pfc. Christian G. Alvarado, of 1st Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment, was arraigned on Thursday in a general court-martial hearing and …
Facebook is bracing for possible violence around Inauguration Day by blocking its users from creating pages on its platform that promote in-person events scheduled either in downtown Washington, D.C. or in state capitals near their legislative buildings, it said Friday. “We are blocking the creation of any new Facebook events happening in close proximity to …
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2006 will be held later this year. But the road to the vote – key to advancing Palestinian statehood and mending a rift between Abbas‘ Fatah party and the Islamic militant group Hamas – is …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Like many Brazilian public health experts, Dr. Regina Flauzino spent most of 2020 watching with horror as COVID-19 devastated Brazil. When the opportunity to join the government’s vaccination effort came, she was thrilled: She would be able to share her decades of on-the-ground experience. But her excitement quickly faded. Flauzino, …
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CAIRO (AP) – Clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan‘s West Darfur have killed at least 32 people, according to a local medical official, as Sudanese authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew on the province. Darfur remains scarred by war after a rebellion in the early 2000s was brutally suppressed. The most recent violence comes two …
