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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces erected concrete barriers as panic took hold of the Iraqi street Monday ahead of counter-protests planned by Shiite political rivals that many feared could escalate to civil strife.
Calls for the counter-protest came from a political alliance of Iran-backed groups opposed to the open-ended sit-in inside Iraq's parliament by followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The prospect of opposing demonstrations stirred fears of a deepening political crisis. Iraq's political sphere has been a vacuum since federal elections in October.
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A British court is holding an emergency hearing to determine whether a hospital can end life-support treatment for a 12-year-old boy who has suffered catastrophic brain damage. The parents of Archie Battersbee are fighting the decision but have lost a series of court challenges. After the family appealed to the United Nations, the British government asked the Court of Appeal to take another look at the case. The court is holding a hearing on Monday, hours before the Royal London Hospital says it will end Archie’s treatment. Archie was found unconscious with a ligature over his head on April 7. Doctors believe Archie is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.
Team Astana has reinstated Colombian rider Miguel Ángel López following an investigation into drug trafficking in Spain. López had been temporarily suspended by the Kazakhstani team after news he was being questioned in an investigation into the alleged activities of a Spanish doctor suspected of drug trafficking. The team said that “it was not in a position to continue the suspension or further deprive the rider of his contractual rights.” It said “the team will monitor the situation closely and will not hesitate to take resolute measures depending on the development of the situation.” The 28-year-old López is set to race in the Burgos Vuelta and Spanish Vuelta.
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The political rivals of an influential Iraqi cleric whose followers stormed the parliament have declared their own counter-protest. The announcement on Monday stirred fear among Iraqis and caused security forces to erect concrete barriers leading to the heavily fortified Green Zone, home of the parliament building. The counter-protest was called by the Coordination Framework, an alliance lead by Shiite parties close to Iran, and is slated to take place Monday afternoon. The announcement came after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement late Sunday to radically change the political system and abolish his rivals. His opponents perceived the call as a coup.
Serbia’s new parliament has convened for its first session, some four months after an election that reaffirmed the domination of autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic and his right-wing populists. Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party holds the majority in the 250-member assembly and is expected to run the next government. Several opposition groups also made it into the parliament in the April 3 vote after they boycotted the previous election. Beleaguered opposition parties have complained that Vucic’s tight grip over mainstream media and the state institutions have made any election in the country far from free and fair. Vucic has denied the claims.
Nearly three decades after her death, Tejano superstar Selena is making her comeback this summer.
Sudan says it has detected the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in the conflict-wrecked Darfur region. The Health Ministry said Sunday that the 16-year-old student's case was discovered last week in West Darfur province. It did not give further details about the patient. The ministry said there were at least 38 suspected cases of monkeypox; all tested negative to the virus but one in West Darfur. An outbreak of monkeypox could be devastating for Sudan which suffered from decades of conflict in Darfur and other parts of the country, and international isolation. The U.N. health agency last month declared the monkeypox a global emergency.
The White House is making more than $1 billion available to states to address flooding and extreme heat exacerbated by climate change. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce the grant programs Monday at an event in Miami with the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other officials. The competitive grants will help communities across the nation prepare for and respond to climate-related disasters. The announcement comes as the death toll rises from massive flooding in Kentucky and as wildfires in California and Montana explode in size amid windy, hot conditions and force evacuations. The White House says “the impacts of the climate crisis are here.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount of salmonella bacteria found in some raw chicken products or risk shutdowns. The proposed USDA rules announced Monday would declare salmonella an adulterant — a contaminant that can cause food-borne illness — in breaded and stuffed raw chicken products. That includes many frozen foods found in grocery stores that appear to be cooked through but are only heat-treated to set the batter or breading. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the salmonella bacteria sickens 1.3 million Americans each year, puts 26,000 in hospitals and causes 420 deaths.
On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. It was a contentious decision, with the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the final call and overruling the WHO’s emergency committee. The advisory co…
I’m not alone when I confess that the COVID era wreaked havoc on my kids’ annual pediatrician visits.
Mark Turgeon and Chris Mack had the kind of college basketball jobs at Maryland and Louisville, respectively, that you don’t walk away from. Yet both made the rare move of leaving Power 5 conference men’s basketball jobs in season.
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso will extend his Formula One career by joining Aston Martin next season. The 41-year-old Spaniard will replace Sebastian Vettel after the German announced his retirement last week. Alonso’s contract with Alpine was ending this season. Aston Martin says it signed Alonso to a multi-year deal. Alonso will be going into his 20th season in F1. He won his titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006. He took two years off in 2019 and 2020 to race in other series.
What kind of documentary do you have if the person your film is about is played by an actor lip-syncing that person’s words? This is only one of the intriguing questions posed by “My Old School,” a film in which all the flashbacks are at first animated and the animated characters are voiced …
A botched suicide in the San Francisco Bay leaves a woman with no memories. Where do you go from there?
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The kitchen staff in one of this city’s newest chic hotels, housed in a 15th century palace, knew Hollywood had arrived when film crews flown in from California started calling room service to demand smoothies — juiced celery and all.
DALLAS — At first, the conversations seemed ridiculous. “Business is fantastic,” says Bob Sambol, the namesake of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas.
Friday was another beautiful day at, and for, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. So much so that even by his gleaming standards NLBM president Bob Kendrick radiated a certain surplus glow still basking in Buck O’Neil’s long-awaited induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
They have a millionaire coach who lives in a mansion.
The first week of training camp is in the books, and the Mike McDaniel era of the Miami Dolphins franchise began about as smoothly as it could have possibly gone.
The phone rang, a number calling from California, just 13 hours before I was set to embark on a long trip to Malaysia for a college friend’s wedding. I was packing and doing laundry but thought I should answer.
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From the perspective of many leading Republican elected officials and political consultants in Colorado, the governor’s race was supposed to go something like this: Heidi Ganahl, the Republican pick, very likely would lose to high-polling incumbent Democrat Jared Polis, but at least she’d gi…
Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more than 40 years in a tiny one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, writing, painting, sketching, collecting and fantasizing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff says his conference is far from finished, despite the defections of Southern California and UCLA. Kliavkoff confirmed the Pac-12 is actively exploring expansion during an eventful, occasionally feisty opening speech at his conference’s …
The phone rang, a number calling from California, just 13 hours before I was set to embark on a long trip to Malaysia for a college friend’s wedding. I was packing and doing laundry but thought I should answer.
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From the perspective of many leading Republican elected officials and political consultants in Colorado, the governor’s race was supposed to go something like this: Heidi Ganahl, the Republican pick, very likely would lose to high-polling incumbent Democrat Jared Polis, but at least she’d gi…
Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more than 40 years in a tiny one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, writing, painting, sketching, collecting and fantasizing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff says his conference is far from finished, despite the defections of Southern California and UCLA. Kliavkoff confirmed the Pac-12 is actively exploring expansion during an eventful, occasionally feisty opening speech at his conference’s …
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Manchester City is the team to beat once again when the Premier League starts on Friday. The champions have even strengthened their squad in the position they were weakest last season by signing Erling Haaland as their belated replacement for Sergio Aguero up front. Haaland is regarded as one of the best young players in the world. City is looking to win a seventh league title in 12 years in what could be Pep Guardiola’s last season in charge. Liverpool looks to be the team best placed to challenge City despite losing Sadio Mane. Chelsea and Manchester United are in a state of flux so Tottenham and Arsenal will look to take advantage.
A Chinese state-owned company is negotiating to buy a forestry plantation with a deep-water port and World War II airstrip in Solomon Islands amid concerns that China wants to establish a naval foothold in the South Pacific country. Australian Broadcasting Corp. has reported a Chinese company delegation visited the plantation on Kolombangar Island in 2019, asking questions about the length of the wharf and depth of the water while showing little interest in the trees. The ABC says the board of Solomons company wrote to the newly elected Australian government in May warning of the “risks/strategic threats” posed by such a sale. Australia's foreign ministry says its continues to engage with the Solomons company.
Officials say a weekend wildfire in France's southern French Gard region that injured four firefighters has now been contained. Firefighter spokesman Col. Eric Agrinier told French media that 370 hectares were burned and two homes affected by the flames. But he highlighted “dozens and dozens of houses preserved and a human toll of zero casualties among civilians.” The fire was contained in the night of Sunday with some 400 firefighters monitoring the blaze Monday morning, according to the civil protection agency.
The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government has announced the extension of its mandate to rule for another six months in preparation for an election it has said will be held next year. The army seized power last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover was met with widespread non-violent protests around the country. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the ruling State Administration Council, said in a broadcast speech Monday that the state of emergency declared after last year’s takeover was extended because time was needed to prepare for new elections. There is doubt they will be free and fair because most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s party have been locked up.
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BOISE, Idaho — Riley Romazko and her fiancé Julien Rivera were among the first to buy a shipping container home at Caritas Commons, a cluster of single-family houses built for limited-income residents on a quiet street in an older Boise neighborhood.
Working from home while making sure your kids are in their virtual classroom while getting groceries delivered while keeping everyone safe from coronavirus is enough to burn anyone out. Two years of going through this has apparently been too much for many people.
PHILADELPHIA —Rachael Gibbons-Newcome had tried everything to defuse her 5-year-old son's angry outbursts: prizes for good behavior, sticker charts, and calming evening routines.
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