Burt Young, Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie in ‘Rocky’ films, dies at 83 | AP News

Burt Young, Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie in ‘Rocky’ films, dies at 83 | AP News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” franchise, has died. Young died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told the New York Times on Wednesday. No cause was given. He was 83.

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The House speaker’s race hits an impasse as defeated GOP Rep. Jim Jordan wants to try again | AP News

The House speaker’s race hits an impasse as defeated GOP Rep. Jim Jordan wants to try again | AP News

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Czech government survives no-confidence vote in Parliament sought by populist ex-prime minister | AP News

Czech government survives no-confidence vote in Parliament sought by populist ex-prime minister | AP News

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech coalition government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Thursday over opposition claims that it is mishandling the economy and immigration.Only 85 opposition lawmakers in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament voted to dismiss the five-party government led by conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala.The vote was held early Thursday after a

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Japan’s exports rise and imports decline in September as auto shipments to US and Europe climb | AP News

Japan’s exports rise and imports decline in September as auto shipments to US and Europe climb | AP News

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports climbed 4.3% in September from a year earlier as shipments of vehicles, machinery and electronics rose while imports of oil and gas fell sharply, the government said Thursday.Exports totaled 9.2 trillion yen ($61 billion) in September while imports fell 16.3% from the year before to 10.9 trillion yen ($72 billion)

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Natalee Holloway: Joran van der Sloot’s confession provides long-sought answers, mother says | AP News

Natalee Holloway: Joran van der Sloot’s confession provides long-sought answers, mother says | AP News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Beth Holloway was after one thing for 18 years: answers about what happened to her missing daughter.She got them Wednesday when Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in her daughter’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba, admitted in submitted court filings to bludgeoning Natalee Holloway to death on a beach

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Mexican court employees call 5-day strike to protest proposed funding cuts | AP News

Mexican court employees call 5-day strike to protest proposed funding cuts | AP News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican court employees said Wednesday they will go on strike from Thursday through Tuesday to protest proposed funding cuts, threatening an already creaky court system.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed cutting funds for the judicial branch, arguing that judges make too much money and often protect criminals.The court employees’ union

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US eases oil, gas and gold sanctions on Venezuela after electoral roadmap signed | AP News

US eases oil, gas and gold sanctions on Venezuela after electoral roadmap signed | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — In response to Venezuela’s government and a faction of its opposition formally agreeing to work together to reach a series of basic conditions for the next presidential election, the U.S. agreed Wednesday to temporarily suspend some sanctions on the country’s oil, gas and gold sectors. Tuesday’s agreement between President Nicolás Maduro’s administration

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Savić: Trenutno najveći izazov za bržu realizaciju projekata obnovljivih izvora je balansiranje

Savić: Trenutno najveći izazov za bržu realizaciju projekata obnovljivih izvora je balansiranje

Izvori | Izvor: Beta | 18.10.2023 | access_time 12:45 Trenutno najveći izazov u realizaciji projekata obnovljivih izvora energije u Srbiji predstavlja njihovo balansiranje, a to se može rešiti većim ulaganjima u balansne kapacitete, pre svega baterije, i u reverzibilne hidroelektrane, ocenio je finansijski stručnjak i direktor kompanije AskUs Aleksandar Savić.U izjavi za portal Zelena Srbija

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From hospital, to shelter, to deadly inferno: Fleeing Palestinians lose another sanctuary in Gaza | AP News

From hospital, to shelter, to deadly inferno: Fleeing Palestinians lose another sanctuary in Gaza | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — The courtyard of al-Ahli hospital, where thousands of Palestinians had sought shelter or medical treatment, is now a blackened expanse of charred cars, stretchers coated in ash and shredded dolls.That’s all that remains after an explosion on Tuesday turned it into an inferno, tearing apart men, women and children, and burning people

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US resumes deportation flights to Venezuela with more than 100 migrants on board | AP News

US resumes deportation flights to Venezuela with more than 100 migrants on board | AP News

MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (AP) — Deportation flights of Venezuelans from the U.S. resumed Wednesday with a first plane of more than a hundred migrants landing back in their economically troubled country under the Biden administration’s latest efforts to deal with swelling numbers of asylum-seekers. This is the first time in years that U.S. immigration authorities are

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