Cracks are emerging in Israel’s military. Reservists threaten not to serve if government plan passes | AP News

Cracks are emerging in Israel’s military. Reservists threaten not to serve if government plan passes | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Cracks are emerging in Israel’s military.The Middle East’s best equipped and most powerful force is under one of the worst assaults it has encountered — a battle within its own ranks.A contentious government plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary has cleaved deep rifts within Israeli society. Those rifts have infiltrated the military

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologizes for a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people in the military | AP News

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologizes for a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people in the military | AP News

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednesday for the treatment of gay veterans, saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state.”The apology came after an independent review published Wednesday estimated that hundreds, if not thousands, of veterans were dismissed

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Yamuna river reaches the iconic Taj Mahal’s outer walls in India after swelling with monsoon rains | AP News

Yamuna river reaches the iconic Taj Mahal’s outer walls in India after swelling with monsoon rains | AP News

AGRA, India (AP) — Rising water from the Yamuna river on Wednesday reached the outer boundary walls of the iconic Taj Mahal and submerged one of its adjacent gardens after record monsoon rains swelled rivers across northern India over the last three weeks.The flooding at the 17th-century white marble monument in Agra city came as

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Liberty and tacos for all: Taco Bell prevails as Taco John’s abandons trademark to ‘Taco Tuesday’ | AP News

Liberty and tacos for all: Taco Bell prevails as Taco John’s abandons trademark to ‘Taco Tuesday’ | AP News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Taco Bell rang up a win Tuesday in its quest to make “Taco Tuesday” free of trademark restrictions, with Taco John’s formally abandoning its decades-old claim to own the phrase amid a challenge from its bigger rival.In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Cheyenne-based Taco John’s gave up

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