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• November 20, 2023

  Heavy Fighting Breaks out Around Another Gaza Hospital

  KHAN YOUNIS — Heavy fighting erupted Monday around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, as Israel pressed an offensive it says is aimed at eradicating Hamas and uprooting their militant infrastructure.

• November 20, 2023

  Yemen's Houthi Rebels Hijack Israeli-Linked Ship in Red Sea, Take 25 Hostages

  JERUSALEM — Yemen's Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route Sunday and took its 25 crew members hostage, officials said, raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front.

• November 20, 2023

  With Climate Change, New Lifestyles Pastoralists Modernize to Cope

  SUKHBAATAR, MONGOLIA — The moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family prepared for another big move. On horseback, he rode to a well with nearly a thousand sheep and goats. Occasionally, he and his wife, Nurmaa, stopped to help struggling young ones, weak after a harsh winter.

• November 20, 2023

  CDC: Progress in Childhood Cancer Has Stalled for Blacks and Hispanics

  Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. 

• November 19, 2023

  Chinese Man Extradited From Morocco Faces Embezzlement Charges

  The financial executive is accused of transferring money from his company's bank accounts to his personal account

• November 19, 2023

  32 People Reported Dead in Disputed Abyei Administrative Region

  NAIROBI — At least 32 people, including a U.N. peacekeeper, were killed Sunday following heavy fighting in the disputed Abyei administrative region, an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, authorities said.

• November 19, 2023

  Gaza Protest Leads California Democrats to Cancel Some Convention Events

  SACRAMENTO — California Democratic Party leaders have canceled a portion of their state convention following a large demonstration calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

• November 19, 2023

  African Importers Cope with Rising Sugar Prices

  Sugar prices are soaring in many places. That's largely due to production shortfalls in key exporters India and Thailand that are partly blamed on the El Nino. The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization is predicting a 2% decline in production this year.

• November 19, 2023

  French Holocaust Survivors, Activists Plead for Peace

  PARIS — Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to sound the alarm aboutresurgent anti-Semitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

• November 18, 2023

  Ugandans Debate Over Efforts to Revise Idi Amin's Legacy

  KAMPALA — Some Ugandans are calling for the rehabilitation of Idi Amin, the nation's third president, two decades after his death.

• November 17, 2023

  Inaki Williams Gives Ghana Winning Start in World Cup Qualifiers

  KUMASI, GHANA — Inaki Williams gave Ghana a winning start to World Cup qualifying by scoring deep into injury time Friday to secure a 1-0 victory over Madagascar.

• November 17, 2023

  Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia Flood Death Toll Rises to 130

  NAIROBI — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies described as flooding seen only once every 100 years.

• November 17, 2023

  Measles Deaths Up 40% Last Year Worldwide, Health Agencies Say 

  LONDON — Measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year and cases rose after vaccination levels dramatically dropped during the pandemic, leading health agencies said Thursday. 

• November 17, 2023

  Biden-Xi Agreements: Fentanyl, Taiwan and Pandas

  WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for hours on Wednesday in a widely anticipated encounter intended to recalibrate tensions between the two countries. The leaders reached an agreement to restart communications between their militaries, which is intended to reduce the risk of unintended conflict. The White House also said China would curb the flow of the illicit fentanyl that has become a deadly ingredient of drugs sold in the United States

• November 17, 2023

  APEC Summit: Biden Woos Asian and Pacific Investors

  SAN FRANCISCO — President Joe Biden on Thursday made America's case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to high standards in trade and to partnerships that will benefit economies across the Pacific.

• November 16, 2023

  Ghana Summit Calls for Global Fund to Compensate Africans for Slave Trade

  ACCRA — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the transatlantic slave trade.

• November 16, 2023

  Israel Indicates Likely Drive to Southern Gaza

  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee parts of southern Gaza, residents said Thursday, signaling a possible expansion of their offensive to areas where hundreds of thousands of people who heeded earlier evacuation orders are crowded into U.N.-run shelters and family homes.

• November 16, 2023

  Germany Raids Group with Alleged Ties to Iran and Hezbollah

  BERLIN — The German government says police have raided 54 locations across the country in an investigation of a Hamburg-based organization suspected of promoting the Iranian leadership's ideology and possibly supporting activities of Hezbollah in Germany.

• November 16, 2023

  Biden Addresses Asia-Pacific CEOs at APEC Summit

  SAN FRANCISO — Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden on Thursday will address CEOs grappling with the risks to their businesses from world crises and spend time trying to persuade other Indo-Pacific leaders that the U.S. is committed to nurturing economic ties throughout the region.

• November 16, 2023

  Biden-Xi Meeting: An Effort to Reverse Deteriorating Relations

  TAIPEI, Taiwan — At their meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping didn't resolve any of the major geopolitical issues dividing the world's two largest economies and chief rivals for influence, particularly among developing nations.

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