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  • Fallbrook's North Coast Church helps provide hope to Ukraine

    Updated Jul 21, 2023

    Avalon Hester Village News Intern It’s the peak of summer in Fallbrook – school is out, and the days are reaching 93 degrees. By now, parents have probably confirmed and reconfirmed camp reservations and have sent their children for fun days spent swimming, playing capture the flag, and making new friends. Almost 6,500 miles away, within the borders of an active war zone, Ukrainian children are doing the same things – with help from Fallbrook’s own North Coast Church....

  • Ukrainian says, "I love America!"

    Judy Bell|Updated Mar 1, 2023

    Judith Bell Staff Writer Alexander Hranchenko, 36, escaped from the horrors of war last October as he made his way from his village in the Kherson region of the Ukraine to Wheeling, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. "I wanted to stay and fight. However, my life was not fully my own as I needed to save my family," he said. Alex did so by getting his parents and sister's family and dog to Slovakia. "I found a house for my family and then decided, with my family safe from...

  • Saudi court issues final verdicts in Khashoggi killing

    AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press|Updated Sep 7, 2020

    Sep 07, 2020 9:13 AM (GMT 16:13) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A Saudi court issued final verdicts on Monday in the case of slain Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his son, who still resides in the kingdom, announced pardons that spared five of the convicted individuals from execution. While the trial draws to its conclusion in Saudi Arabia, the case continues to cast a shadow over the international standing of Crown Prince Mohammed bin...

  • 'Hotel Rwanda' arrested on terror charges, police say

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 31, 2020

    KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday. A well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, Rusesabagina had been living outside Rwanda since 1996 and police did not say where he was apprehended. He had been living in Belgium and then in Texas in the U.S. Rusesabagina's daughter told the Associated Press that...

  • First direct Israel-UAE flight lands in Abu Dhabi amid deal

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 31, 2020

    ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Star of David-adorned El Al plane flew from Israel to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight between the two countries. The Israeli flag carrier’s flight marked the implementation of the historic U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two nations and solidifies the long-clandestine ties between them that have evolved over years of shared enmity...

  • Kim Jong Un Delegates Powers to Sister, Close Aides: SK Intelligence

    ISABEL VAN BRUGEN, The Epoch Times|Updated Aug 24, 2020

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly handed part of his authority to his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and some close aides, South Korea's spy agency said on Aug. 20. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said during a closed-door briefing to South Korean lawmakers Thursday that the dictator is delegating responsibilities to officials including his sister, who is now involved in leading dealings with Washington and Seoul. "Currently, Kim Yo Jong, the first vice...

  • Pompeo inks deal to support more U.S. troops in Poland

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 15, 2020

    WARSAW (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sealed a defense cooperation deal Saturday with Polish officials that will pave the way to deploy more American troops to Poland. Pompeo, in Warsaw at the end of a four-nation tour of central and eastern Europe, signed the deal with Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak that sets out the legal framework for the additional troops. “This is going to be an extended guarantee: a guarantee that in case of a threat our...

  • Israel and United Arab Emirates establish historic diplomatic ties

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 13, 2020

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians. The historic deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to President Donald Trump as he seeks re-election and reflected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken...

  • Opposition candidate leaves Belarus, urges end to protests

    Updated Aug 11, 2020

    YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The top opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential election, who initially refused to concede defeat amid a massive police crackdown on anti-government protesters, said she had left for Lithuania and called on her supporters to stop demonstrating. Looking haggard and distressed, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, 37, a former English teacher who entered the race after her husband's jailing in Belarus, apologized to her backers in a video statement and said it was her own...

  • Global coronavirus cases top 20M as Russia approves vaccine

    Updated Aug 11, 2020

    NICOLE WINFIELD, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ROME (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil, as Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a vaccine against the virus. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that one of his two adult daughters had already been inoculated with the cleared vaccine, which he described as effective. "She's feeling well and has a high number of antibodies,"...

  • Scientists uneasy as Russia approves 1st coronavirus vaccine

    Updated Aug 11, 2020

    VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a move that was met with international skepticism and unease because the shots have only been studied in dozens of people. President Vladimir Putin announced the Health Ministry's approval and said one of his two adult daughters already was inoculated. He said the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and was shown to provide lasting immunity to the coronavirus, although...

  • Lebanon's Cabinet resigns over Beirut blast amid public fury

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 10, 2020

    BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's government resigned Monday amid widespread public fury at the country's ruling elite over last week's devastating explosion in Beirut. The move risks opening the way to dragged-out negotiations over a new Cabinet amid urgent calls for reform. Prime Minster Hassan Diab headed to the presidential palace to submit the Cabinet's group resignation, said Health Minister Hamad Hassan. It follows a weekend of anti-government protests in the wake of the Aug. 4 explosion in...

  • Negligence suspected in Beirut blast involving chemicals

    Updated Aug 5, 2020

    BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Investigators began searching through the wreckage of Beirut's port Wednesday for clues to the cause of the massive explosion that ripped across the Lebanese capital, and the government ordered port officials put under house arrest amid speculation that negligence was to blame. The investigation is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored at the facility for six years, and why nothing was...

  • EU regulators investigating Google's plan to buy Fitbit

    Updated Aug 4, 2020

    KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators opened an in-depth investigation Tuesday, Aug. 4 into Google's plan to buy fitness tracking device maker Fitbit. The EU's executive commission said it was concerned the deal would entrench the U.S. tech giant's position in the online ad market by "increasing the already vast amount of data" the company uses to personalize ads. "Our investigation aims to ensure that control by Google over data collected through wearable devices as a result of the...

  • Huge explosions rock Beirut with widespread damage, injuries

    Updated Aug 4, 2020

    BEIRUT (AP) — Massive explosions rocked downtown Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors as a giant mushroom cloud rose above the capital. Witnesses saw many people injured by flying glass and debris. An Associated Press photographer near the port saw people lying injured on the ground, and hospitals called for blood donations, but exact casualties were not immediately known. Miles from the scene of the blast, balconies were knocked down, ceiling collapsed and...

  • Report: Retired Pope Benedict XVI ill after visit to Germany

    Updated Aug 3, 2020

    BERLIN (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after his return from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper reported Monday. The daily Passauer Neue Presse quoted Peter Seewald, a biographer of the retired pontiff, as saying that the 93-year-old has been suffering from a facial infection since his return to Rome. Seewald, who has published several book-length interviews with Benedict, handed over a copy of the biography to the former pontiff on Saturday, the...

  • HSBC says net profit plunged 96% in 2Q as pandemic took hold

    Updated Aug 3, 2020

    LONDON (AP) — Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, said Monday that its net profit plummeted 96% in the second quarter of this year as lower interest rates combined with the downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic tool hold. The bank's net profit was $192 million in the April-June quarter, down from $4.37 billion reported in the same period a year earlier. Net profit in the first quarter of the year was $1.79 billion. London-based HSBC has most of its business in Asia, where the pandemic began, first emerging in central China....

  • Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship, could spread along coast

    Updated Aug 3, 2020

    JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after a coronavirus outbreak on one ship infected at least 5 passengers and 36 crew. Health authorities fear the ship also could have spread the virus to dozens of towns and villages along Norway's western coast. The confirmed virus cases from the MS Roald Amundsen raise new questions about safety on all cruise ships during a pandemic even as the devastated cruise ship industry i...

  • Eurozone economy suffers record drop during lockdown months

    Updated Jul 31, 2020

    JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press PARIS (AP) - The economy of the 19-country eurozone shrank by a devastating 12.1% in the April-June period from the quarter before - the largest drop on record - as coronavirus lockdowns shut businesses and hampered consumer spending. Economists say the worst of the downturn is past as many restrictions have eased, but that the recovery will be drawn out and vulnerable to renewed virus outbreaks. Spain, which along with Italy...

  • Sleepy lions, empty bars, lost jobs: A world without tourism

    Updated Jul 31, 2020

    JOHN LEICESTER, ROD McGUIRK and ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) - With no American visitors to show around the D-Day beaches or the Loire Valley's chateaux, and no work on the immediate horizon, Paris tour guide Linda Zenou frets about how she'll pay off a loan and continue to care for her ailing mother in the achingly lean months ahead. "My situation is going to become completely inextricable," she said. "We have nothing to live on." For growing numbers of businesses...

  • Britain delays easing of lockdown as virus spread speeds up

    Updated Jul 31, 2020

    DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put some of the country's next steps out of lockdown on hold Friday with just a few hours' notice, saying the number of new coronavirus cases was on the rise for the first time since May. The government's top medical adviser warned that it was impossible to fully reopen society without the virus running out of control. Johnson said statistics showed that the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community is likely increasing, with an...

  • Moscow demands that Belarus free 33 detained Russians

    Updated Jul 31, 2020

    VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin demanded Friday that Belarus quickly release 33 Russian private security contractors it detained on terrorism charges, dismissing accusations of plots during the Belarus presidential campaign as bogus. The allegations represent an unprecedented escalation of tensions between Russia and neighboring Belarus, traditionally close allies, as Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko seeks a sixth term in the Aug. 9 election. Belarusian officials said the employees of...

  • Mass protests rock Russian Far East city, challenge Kremlin

    Updated Jul 18, 2020

    YULIA KHOROVENKOVA and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press KHABAROVSK, Russia (AP) — Mass rallies challenging the Kremlin rocked Russia's Far East city of Khabarovsk again on Saturday, as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the arrest of the region's governor on charges of involvement in multiple murders. The massive unauthoritized crowds gathered despite local officials' attempts to discourage people from taking to the streets, citing the coronavirus epidemic and an alleged averted terrorist threat. Local media...

  • Mexico puts military in charge of customs operations

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's military will take over the country's land and maritime ports of entry as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tries to root corruption out of the country's customs offices. "We have made the decision, I've just advised the security Cabinet, that the land and maritime customs (offices) are going to be in the charge of the Army and the Navy and the same in the case of the country's ports so that there is security and to avoid the introduction of drugs," López Obrador said Friday from the...

  • China says it's not trying to replace US, won't be bullied

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    BEIJING (AP) — China isn't seeking to confront or replace the United States as the world's top technological power, but will fight back against "malicious slander" and attacks from Washington, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday, responding to a litany of recent accusations from the Trump administration. Hua Chunying said China's chief concern is improving the livelihoods of its citizens and maintaining global peace and stability, despite what critics say is an increasingly aggressive foreign policy that looks to...

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