Who wants to fly over Taliban-held Afghanistan? New FAA rules allow it, but planes largely avoid it | AP News

Who wants to fly over Taliban-held Afghanistan? New FAA rules allow it, but planes largely avoid it | AP News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cut time and fuel consumption for East-West travel. But those shortened flight routes for India and Southeast Asia raise questions never

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UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education | AP News

UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education | AP News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for a crime against humanity for denying education and employment to Afghan girls and women, the U.N. special envoy for global education said.Gordon Brown told a virtual U.N. press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on Tuesday that

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An abandoned desert village an hour from Dubai offers a glimpse at the UAE’s hardscrabble past | AP News

An abandoned desert village an hour from Dubai offers a glimpse at the UAE’s hardscrabble past | AP News

AL-MADAM, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nestled in sand dunes an hour’s drive from the skyscrapers of Dubai, a desert village abandoned in the 1990s stands as an eerie relic of the rapid urbanization of the United Arab Emirates.Built in the 1970s to house semi-nomadic Bedouin, the village of al-Ghuraifa was abandoned two decades later

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Guatemala’s veterans about face to support Sandra Torres for president | AP News

Guatemala’s veterans about face to support Sandra Torres for president | AP News

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s largest military veteran organization endorsed presidential candidate Sandra Torres Tuesday after battling her during her first two bids for the presidency, showing just how far her progressive opponent’s surprise place in the runoff has shaken the country’s politics.Torres and her hosts at the Guatemalan Military Veterans Association painted her opponent

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Sage Steele leaves ESPN after settling her lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine comments | AP News

Sage Steele leaves ESPN after settling her lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine comments | AP News

ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled a lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made about the company’s policy requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.Steele posted on social media Tuesday that she is leaving the Bristol, Connecticut-based company, where she has worked since 2007.“Having successfully settled my case with ESPN/Disney, I

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McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown at the end of next month | AP News

McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown at the end of next month | AP News

Washington (AP) — Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the idea of a months-long funding package, known as a continuing resolution, to House

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Hawaii works to identify 99 confirmed dead in Maui wildfires as teams intensify search | AP News

Hawaii works to identify 99 confirmed dead in Maui wildfires as teams intensify search | AP News

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials worked painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui and expected to release the first names Tuesday, even as teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to ash.A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many who survived have started

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Monsunske kiše u Indiji

Monsunske kiše u Indiji

Svet | 15.08.2023 | access_time 09:45 Foto: AP/Ashwini Bhatia Obilne monsunske kiše izazvale su poplave i klizišta u indijskom regionu Himalaja, ostavljajući nekoliko ljudi mrtvih, a mnoge druge zarobljene.Ove fotografije prikazuju svu jezivost ovih događaja i ljudsku borbu da se katastrofa prevaziđe.Na jednoj od fotografija mogu se videti i spasioci koji uklanjaju blato i krhotine

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