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World News - Reports: Mass poisoning in Laos kills 4 tourists, including an America - Nov. 21 (UPI) -- At least four tourists, including an American, have died after consuming suspected methanol-tainted alcohol in Laos, according to officials and reports.

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U.S. News -- U.S. unveils new weapons package for Ukraine, including anti-personnel landmines

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World News -- U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for Gaza cease-fire, hostage releases

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World News -- U.S. envoy off to Israel for truce talks; Hezbollah chief says deal depends on Netanyahu

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World News -- U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein says end of Israel-Hezbollah war "within our grasp" -- U.S. envoy Amos Hoschtein said Tuesday "a real opportunity" to end the Israel-Hezbollah conflict is "now within our grasp," but both parties need to make the decision.

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World News -- Ford cuts European workforce by 4,000, mostly in Germany and Britain -- Ford Motor Company said Wednesday it plans to cut 4,000 European jobs, citing what it called unprecedented competitive, regulatory, and economic headwinds.

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World News -- World Health Organization approves emergency use of second mpox vaccine -- The World Health Organization Tuesday granted emergency use authorization for the second mpox vaccine. The LC16m8 vaccine from Japan's KM Biologics is the second since WHO declared mpox a health emergency in August.

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World News -- Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai takes stand to rebut 'collusion with foreign forces' charges -- Jailed former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand for the first time Wednesday in his trial on conspiracy to collude with foreign powers and publishing seditious anti-government material.

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Beirut firefighters begin search after Israeli airstrikes

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Israeli Bedouins race camels in the Negev desert

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Israel mourns victims of Hamas attack

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World News -- Pope sets dates for two canonizations, including first millennial saint -- Pope Francis on Wednesday announced the date of two saints to be canonized in 2025, including the first millennial saint.

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U.S. News -- Court sentences Chinese national over scheme targeting Falun Gong practitioners -- A Chinese national has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after admitting to trying to damage an opposition religious movement present in the United States under the direction of the Asian nation.

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U.S. News -- U.S. vows to impose visa restrictions over sentencing of Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders -- The United States vowed Tuesday to impose visa restrictions on Hong Kong officials responsible for sentencing 45 pro-democracy leaders and advocates to lengthy prison terms.

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World News -- Hong Kong court sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders in mass trial -- A Hong Kong court sentenced 45 pro-democracy advocates in a mass trial on Tuesday, marking the largest case yet brought under the city's draconian National Security Law.

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U.S. News -- U.S. hits Hamas leaders in Turkey, Gaza with sanctions -- The Biden administration targeted Hamas with sanctions on Tuesday, blacklisting six leaders of the Iran-proxy militia on accusations they aided it in raising funds and smuggling weapons into Gaza.

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World News -- Son of Norway's crown princess facing rape charges after arrest -- Marius Borg Hoiby, 27, is under arrest for suspicion of rape involving someone who was unconscious and otherwise incapable of resisting the act, Norway Police announced on Tuesday.

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World News -- Moscow says its Bryansk region attacked with U.S.-made long-range missiles -- Moscow said Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Russian soil for the first time with U.S.-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden reportedly gave his permission for the weapons to be used.

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World News -- German officials suspect sabotage in damage of Baltic Sea communication cables -- German officials said on Tuesday they believe the damage to two underwater fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea was an act of sabotage, but they could not speculate beyond that.

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World News -- Several hospitalized as man drives SUV into crowd at Chinese elementary school -- Several people were hospitalized Tuesday after an SUV was driven into parents and children as they arrived for class at an elementary school in the city of Changde in China's southern Hunan Province.

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World News -- North Korea looks to boost economic cooperation with Russia alongside growing military ties -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with the leader of a Russian delegation in Pyongyang and called for deepening trade, economic and scientific ties between the two countries, state media reported Tuesday.

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1 dead, hundreds of thousands without power as bomb cyclone hits Pacific Northwest

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Ukraine's Zelensky says North Korea may send up to 100,000 troops to Russia

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Comcast announces spinoff of NBCUniversal's cable assets

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U.S. closes Kyiv embassy after receiving information on 'potential significant air attack'

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Biden grants permission for anti-personnel mines to be sent to Ukraine

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