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A Hindu festival in southwestern Pakistan brings a mountainous region to life
The ascent of steep mud volcanoes marks the start of Hindu pilgrims’ religious rituals in southwestern Pakistan. The dramatic surroundings of Hingol National Park in Baluchistan province are the setting for Pakistan’s largest Hindu festival, Hinglaj Yatra, which started on Friday and ends on Sunday.
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Associated Press
Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer
At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious career, Gustavo Gorriti has endured death threats from drug traffickers, survived Peru's harrowing Shining Path insurgency and a kidnapping by silencer-toting military intelligence agents during a 1992 presidential power grab. Gorriti is clear on who is behind it: A cabal of “kleptocrats” in Peru's political and business elites who are in prosecutorial peril due in large part to his crowning gumshoe achievements.
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NBC News
Climber who died in Alaska national park ID'd as noted N.Y. forest ranger
A climber who died after falling 1,000 feet in Denali National Park and Preserve was identified as Robbi Mecus, a New York climbing enthusiast and forest ranger.
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Associated Press
Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to navigate climate change
From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world's youngest population, faces the worst effects of a warming planet while contributing the least to the problem.
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Reuters
Exclusive-Elon Musk heading to China for visit to Tesla's second-biggest market, sources say
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was on a flight heading to Beijing on Sunday to kick off a surprise trip in the electric vehicle maker's second-biggest market, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Musk is seeking to meet senior Chinese officials in Beijing to discuss the rollout of Full-Self Driving (FSD) software in China and to obtain approval to transfer data collected in the country abroad to train algorithms for its autonomous driving technologies, one of the people said. Tesla has since 2021 stored all data collected by its Chinese fleet in Shanghai as required by Chinese regulators and has not transferred any back to the United States.
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Associated Press
A munitions explosion at a Cambodian army base kills 20 soldiers, but its cause is unclear
Security was tight around a military base in southwestern Cambodia on Sunday, a day after a huge explosion there killed 20 soldiers, wounded others and damaged nearby houses. A villager living nearby told The Associated Press on Sunday that he trembled after hearing the blast because he had never before experienced such a loud explosion. Other photos showed nearby houses with holes in their roofs.
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CNN
Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about
Imagine having sex with your partner in your sleep and having no memory of it once awake. Welcome to the world of sexsomnia.
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Associated Press
Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows
Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned or retired, according to the 214 law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF. Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers spurred nationwide protests against police brutality and heightened scrutiny of law enforcement.
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CNN
Kenya floods leave 76 dead as truck is swept away in deluge
At least 70 people have died from country-wide flooding in Kenya, a government spokesperson said Friday as authorities ordered more evacuations of people from at-risk areas due to ongoing heavy rainfall.
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AFP
US Fed to meet amid dwindling hopes of summer rate cuts
The US Federal Reserve is highly likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week, as policymakers contend with a recent uptick in inflation that has sharply cut the chance of a summer start to interest rate cuts. - The Fed is not publishing updated economic forecasts this week, and so analysts will instead have to parse FOMC policymakers' public comments in the coming weeks for signs of their thinking on interest rate cuts.
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Associated Press
Wild onion dinners mark the turn of the season in Indian Country
As winter fades to spring and the bright purple blossoms of the redbud trees begin to bloom, Cherokee chef Bradley James Dry knows it’s time to forage for morels as well as a staple of Native American cuisine in Oklahoma: wild green onions. Wild onions are among the first foods to grow at the tail end of winter in the South, and generations of Indigenous people there have placed the alliums at the center of an annual communal event. The land he forages straddles the Muscogee Nation and the Cherokee Nation, and he’s thinking of his elisi — grandmother in Cherokee — who taught him how to pick and cook wild onions.
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Associated Press
A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They're among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — Richelle Dietz, a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy officer, often thinks about water. The family, stationed in Honolulu, spends more than $120 a month on jugs of bottled water for drinking, cooking and cleaning, as well as showerhead and sink filters. Each night the children, ages 13 and 5, carry cups of bottled water upstairs to their bathrooms to brush their teeth.
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Associated Press
California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role
During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job to help him earn a living. Unlike the experiences of his peers at Disney's parks in Orlando, Florida, where there is a much smaller talent pool, the performers who play Mickey Mouse, Goofy and other beloved Disney characters at the California parks aren't always provided a consistent work schedule by the company. It's among the reasons the California performers are organizing to be represented by a union now, more than four decades after their Florida counterparts did so.
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Associated Press
Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him
Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. Francis is traveling to Venice to check out the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale. It’s a first for a pope, and has given the 60th edition of the world’s longest running international art exhibit reason for another round of headlines.
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Associated Press
College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. The students' plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
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CNN
He visited Italy for the first time and bought a house within 24 hours
Los Angeles-based TV producer Paul Millet fell in love with the village of Latronico immediately and snapped up a $13,000 house on day one.
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CNN
Millions in the Midwest under storm watches as Nebraska and Iowa communities reel from devastating tornadoes
One day after destructive tornadoes plowed through Nebraska and Iowa, millions of people in parts of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma were under tornado watches Saturday evening.
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AFP
Gaza set to dominate Saudi-hosted global economy summit
The war in Gaza and broader Middle East tensions are expected to get top billing at a Saudi-hosted special meeting of the World Economic Forum that begins on Sunday. - 'New momentum' in hostage talks - Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum (WEF), told Saturday's press conference there was "some new momentum now in the talks around the hostages, and also for... a possible way out of the impasse we are faced with in Gaza".
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TODAY
Who are Elon Musk's 11 children?
Elon Musk, who has three children with singer Grimes, is the father of eight other kids, including two sets of twins and one set of triplets.
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Reuters
France's foreign minister looks to prevent Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalation in Lebanon visit
France's foreign minister will push proposals to prevent further escalation and a potential war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah during a visit to Lebanon on Sunday as Paris seeks to refine a roadmap that both sides could accept to ease tensions. France has historical ties with Lebanon and earlier this year Stephane Sejourne delivered an initiative that proposed Hezbollah's elite unit pull back 10 km (6 miles) from the Israeli border, while Israel would halt strikes in southern Lebanon.
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A Hindu festival in southwestern Pakistan brings a mountainous region to life

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

Climber who died in Alaska national park ID'd as noted N.Y. forest ranger

Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to navigate climate change

Exclusive-Elon Musk heading to China for visit to Tesla's second-biggest market, sources say

A munitions explosion at a Cambodian army base kills 20 soldiers, but its cause is unclear

Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about

Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows

Kenya floods leave 76 dead as truck is swept away in deluge

US Fed to meet amid dwindling hopes of summer rate cuts

Wild onion dinners mark the turn of the season in Indian Country

A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They're among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak

California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role

Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him

College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them

He visited Italy for the first time and bought a house within 24 hours

Millions in the Midwest under storm watches as Nebraska and Iowa communities reel from devastating tornadoes

Gaza set to dominate Saudi-hosted global economy summit

Who are Elon Musk's 11 children?

France's foreign minister looks to prevent Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalation in Lebanon visit