Maui wildfires renew tensions around water rights in a centuries-old conflict over sacred streams
During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno
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Hopeful signs of an economic 'soft landing' emerge in Jackson Hole as Fed meets with world watching
Business these days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is still good — just not as robust as it was after the U.S. economy roared out of the pandemic recession
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House Judiciary Committee expected to launch inquiry into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is expected to open a congressional investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as soon as Thursday, a source tells CNN -- the same day former President Donald Trump is slated to surrender at the county jail after being charged for participating in schemes to meddle with Georgia's 2020 election results.
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Donald Trump to surrender in Atlanta in fourth criminal case brought against ex-president this year
Former President Donald Trump will surrender on Thursday to be booked on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia's 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges.
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Latvia taps centre-right candidate to form government
VILNIUS Latvian president Edgars Rinkevics on Thursday tasked Evika Silina of the centre-right New Unity party with forming
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UK political watchdog says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 'inadvertently' broke ethics rules
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been chided by Parliament’s standards guardian for failing to declare his wife’s financial interest in a childcare firm that stood to benefit from government policy
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Niger junta's 3-year transition plan is a 'provocation,' says West African regional bloc
The West African bloc ECOWAS has rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democratic rule, with a commissioner describing the slow timeline as a provocation
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BRICS invites six nations to join developing world bloc
JOHANNESBURG Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations have invited Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and
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Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc
Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six nations invited Thursday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies
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Moscow court extends WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's pre-trial detention, state media reports
A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich by three months, state media Russia 24 reported Thursday.
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Plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary chief seen as Kremlin's revenge
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private military were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority
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Jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives at a hearing on extending his detention
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, arrived at a Moscow court Thursday for a hearing on a motion by the prosecution to extend his arrest
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