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Officials: 7 Peacekeepers Killed In Sinai Helicopter Crash

JERUSALEM (AP) — A heli­copter belong­ing to an inter­na­tion­al peace­keep­ing force crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Penin­su­la on Thurs­day, killing at least sev­en peo­ple includ­ing sev­er­al Amer­i­cans, an Israeli and an Egypt­ian offi­cial said. Both sides said the crash appeared

Facebook extends political ad ban for another month

Novem­ber 12, 2020 Face­book extends polit­i­cal ad ban for anoth­er month  This sto­ry, plus The Philadel­phia Inquir­er names new top edi­tor, the BBC is cleared of pay dis­crim­i­na­tion but must rebuild trust with female employ­ees, and more, all

Leaked Recordings Reveal WHO’s Pandemic Analysis In Private

GENEVA (AP) — As the coro­n­avirus explodes again, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion finds itself both under intense pres­sure to reform and hold­ing out hope that U.S. Pres­i­­dent-elect Joe Biden will reverse a deci­sion by Wash­ing­ton to leave the health

LA Times, Tribune pay $3M to settle journalist discrimination case

Novem­ber 11, 2020 LA Times, Tri­bune pay $3M to set­tle jour­nal­ist dis­crim­i­na­tion case  This sto­ry, plus social media com­pa­nies strug­gle with mod­er­at­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion on live streams, a look at how a local reporter cov­ered the elec­tion in Georgia,

Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Resign En Masse

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s pro-democ­ra­­cy law­mak­ers said Wednes­day that they were resign­ing en masse fol­low­ing a move by the semi-autonomous Chi­nese territory’s gov­ern­ment to dis­qual­i­fy four of their fel­low pro-democ­ra­­cy leg­is­la­tors. The 15 law­mak­ers announced

Pope John Paul II Promoted Cleric After Learning About Sex Abuse Allegations

ROME (AP) — A Vat­i­can inves­ti­ga­tion into for­mer Car­di­nal Theodore McCar­rick has found that a series of bish­ops, car­di­nals and popes down­played or dis­missed reports of sex­u­al mis­con­duct with sem­i­nar­i­ans, and deter­mined that Pope Fran­cis mere­ly con­tin­ued his predecessors’

MSNBC cuts ties with contributors working on the Biden transition

Novem­ber 10, 2020 MSNBC cuts ties with con­trib­u­tors work­ing on the Biden tran­si­tion  This sto­ry, plus Face­book faces chal­lenges as it tries to appeal to both sides of the polit­i­cal aisle, a look at how the rela­tion­ship between

BBC Probes Whether Princess Diana Was Tricked Into Bombshell Interview

The BBC announced Mon­day that it’s launch­ing a “robust” probe into accu­sa­tions that lies and forged doc­u­ments were used to trick Princess Diana into her ground­break­ing 1995 inter­view with jour­nal­ist Mar­tin Bashir. Diana’s broth­er, Charles Spencer, claimed that

European Union Files Antitrust Charges Against Amazon

LONDON (AP) — Euro­pean Union reg­u­la­tors have filed antitrust charges against Ama­zon, accus­ing the e‑commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advan­tage over mer­chants using its plat­form. The EU’s exec­u­tive com­mis­sion, the bloc’s top antitrust

Armenia, Azerbaijan Agree To End Fight In Nagorno-Karabakh Region

YEREVAN, Arme­nia (AP) — Arme­nia and Azer­bai­jan announced an agree­ment ear­ly Tues­day to halt fight­ing over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azer­bai­jan under a pact signed with Rus­sia that calls for deploy­ment of near­ly 2,000 Russ­ian peace­keep­ers and ter­ri­to­r­i­al concessions.