Argentina’s populist presidential candidate Javier Milei faces criticism as the peso takes a dive | AP News

Argentina’s populist presidential candidate Javier Milei faces criticism as the peso takes a dive | AP News

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s firebrand populist presidential candidate Javier Milei, the front-runner to win the election later this month, is coming under fire from his rivals who blame him for a sharp depreciation of the local currency in the parallel market.Milei has continued to tout his controversial plan for dollarization of the South

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Unprecedented Israeli bombardment lays waste to upscale Rimal, the beating heart of Gaza City | AP News

Unprecedented Israeli bombardment lays waste to upscale Rimal, the beating heart of Gaza City | AP News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble.Scenes of violence and destruction in the long-blockaded Gaza Strip have filled the world’s airwaves throughout four wars and countless rounds of hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants. But this conflict, Palestinians say, is different. On Tuesday, following a night

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Biden to condemn Hamas brutality in attack on Israel and call out rape and torture by militants | AP News

Biden to condemn Hamas brutality in attack on Israel and call out rape and torture by militants | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to use a Tuesday speech about the four-day-old war between Israel and Hamas to condemn the militant group for a shocking multipronged attack on Israel launched from the Gaza Strip that has killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 11 American citizens, according to a White House official.Biden

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US Border Patrol has released thousands of migrants on San Diego’s streets, taxing charities | AP News

US Border Patrol has released thousands of migrants on San Diego’s streets, taxing charities | AP News

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Over five years, the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border developed a well-oiled system to shelter asylum-seekers. That system is being tested like never before as U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases migrants to the streets of California’s second-largest city because shelters are full. Since Sept. 13, about 13,000 have

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