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Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – Several thousand members of a hard-right Pakistan Islamist party began marching towards the capital on Saturday, after violent clashes with police during anti-Israel protests in the eastern city of Lahore.

Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) – The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in several northwestern districts that killed 20 security officials and three civilians.

Tulancingo de Bravo (Mexico) (AFP) – Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said Friday.

Seoul (AFP) – North Korea showed off its “most powerful” intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade attended by top officials from Russia and China, Pyongyang’s state media reported Saturday.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Crossposted from https://lemmy.today/post/39507504

Mali’s military junta is struggling to ease a jihadist fuel blockade as talks with al-Qaeda-linked militants inch forward – amid petrol shortages and growing public frustration.

Washington (AFP) – US First Lady Melania Trump said Friday she had secured the release of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia after establishing an extraordinary back channel of communication with President Vladimir Putin.

Rabat (AFP) – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Friday said improving public education and healthcare was a priority, but made no reference to the youth movement that has been staging nationwide protests for sweeping social reforms.

Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two decades later, Congress is on the verge of writing a closing chapter to the war in Iraq.

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his long-standing threat to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, taking aggressive action to downsize the government in a dramatic break from past shutdowns.

Fema grants traditionally help state, local, tribal, and nonprofit organisations to prevent, protect against, prepare for and respond to hate-based crimes or attacks, and include upgrades such as security guards and surveillance cameras.

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Lebanon and Syria on Friday committed to turning a new page on ties as Damascus’s foreign minister visited Beirut, with Lebanon seeking information on political assassinations under the Assad dynasty.

Paris (AFP) – Canadian cyclist Derek Gee has claimed that his former team, Israel Premier-Tech, is seeking millions of euros in damages from him after he left them due to his “personal-belief standpoint”.

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Donald Trump was thirsty for diplomacy’s biggest medal. He woke up Friday, still parched.

Clergy representing six different faiths — from the First United Methodist Church to Judaism — delivered a letter to the Florida Department of Emergency Management seeking permission from the state to provide one-on-one chaplaincy services to the detainees at the detention center, a practice that’s common in most other correctional facilities in Florida.

After years of working to dismantle diversity programs, ban books and rewrite classroom curriculum, conservatives are converging on a new battlefront in their push to overhaul public education: teachers’ unions.