Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine | AP News

Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine | AP News

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Men walk through a lush plantation between Ecuador ’s balmy Pacific coast and its majestic Andes, lopping hundreds of bunches of green bananas from groaning plants twice their height. Workers haul the bunches to an assembly line, where the bananas are washed, weighed and plastered with stickers for European buyers. Owner

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UAE creates federal authority for ‘commercial gaming’ as casino giants flock to Gulf Arab nation | AP News

UAE creates federal authority for ‘commercial gaming’ as casino giants flock to Gulf Arab nation | AP News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has created a federal authority to potentially run a national lottery and what it describes as “commercial gaming,” likely a sign that it is on the verge of allowing gambling as major casino operators flock to the Gulf Arab nation.The state-run WAM news agency carried

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Francis opens clinic on 1st papal visit to Mongolia. He says it’s about charity not conversion | AP News

Francis opens clinic on 1st papal visit to Mongolia. He says it’s about charity not conversion | AP News

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up the first-ever papal visit to Mongolia on Monday by inaugurating a church-run homeless clinic and shelter, insisting that such initiatives aren’t aimed at winning converts but are simply exercises in Christian charity.Francis toured the House of Mercy, a three-story structure housed in an old school, which the

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Southeast Asian leaders are besieged by thorny issues as they hold an ASEAN summit without Biden | AP News

Southeast Asian leaders are besieged by thorny issues as they hold an ASEAN summit without Biden | AP News

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders led by Indonesian host President Joko Widodo are gathering in their final summit this year, besieged by divisive issues with no solutions in sight: Myanmar’s deadly civil strife, new flare-ups in the disputed South China Sea, and the longstanding United States-China rivalry.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings

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South Korea’s Yoon to call for strong international response to North’s nukes at ASEAN, G20 summits | AP News

South Korea’s Yoon to call for strong international response to North’s nukes at ASEAN, G20 summits | AP News

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president says he’ll tell world leaders about the need to faithfully enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korea and block the country’s illicit activities to fund its weapons programs when they converge in Indonesia and India for annual summits this week.President Yoon Suk Yeol is to visit Jakarta for

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As G20 leaders prepare to meet in recently flooded New Delhi, climate policy issues are unresolved | AP News

As G20 leaders prepare to meet in recently flooded New Delhi, climate policy issues are unresolved | AP News

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rekha Devi, a 30-year-old farm worker, is dreading the moment when her family will be ordered to leave their makeshift tent atop a half-built overpass and return to the Yamuna River floodplains below, where their hut and small field of vegetables is still under water from July’s devastating rains.Devi, her husband

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Metallica postpones Arizona concert after James Hetfield tests positive for COVID-19 | AP News

Metallica postpones Arizona concert after James Hetfield tests positive for COVID-19 | AP News

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Metallica postponed Sunday’s concert in Arizona after the band said lead singer James Hetfield tested positive for COVID-19.The band has rescheduled the second night of its tour stop at Glendale’s State Farm Stadium for Sept. 9.“We’re extremely disappointed and regret any inconvenience this has caused you. We look forward to returning

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Israel’s Netanyahu demands Eritrean migrants involved in violent clash to be deported immediately | AP News

Israel’s Netanyahu demands Eritrean migrants involved in violent clash to be deported immediately | AP News

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants.The remarks came a day after bloody protests by rival groups of Eritreans in south

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Sud za zločine OVK: Tači iz humanitarnih razloga pušten u posetu porodici na Kosovu

Sud za zločine OVK: Tači iz humanitarnih razloga pušten u posetu porodici na Kosovu

Kosovo | 02.09.2023 | access_time 21:25 FOTO: ARMENIJA ZAJMI BESEVIC Specijalni kosovski sud u Hagu saopštio je večeras da je bivšeg komandanta OVK Hašima Tačija (Hashim Thaci) iz humanitarnih razloga pustio u kratku posetu porodici u Prištini tokom koje će biti pod sudskim nadzorom.Tači je optužen za zločine nad Albancima, Srbima i Romima na Kosovu

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