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Frustrations grow in Russia over cellphone internet outages that disrupt daily life
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.Credit cards that won't buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don't connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don't receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can't monitor their kids' blood glucose levels during outages.
The cellphone internet shutdowns, ostensibly to thwart Ukrainian drone attacks, have hit dozens of... Read More
Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administration has already repeatedly sought to weaken.Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali community. Many fled the long civil war in their east African country and were drawn to the state’s welcoming social programs.
But how many migrants would be affected by Trump's announcement that he wants to end temporary protective A... Read More
Africa's first G20 summit opens with an ambitious agenda and tries to move on from Trump's boycott
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opens on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the long-standing problems that have afflicted the world's poorest nations.Leaders and top government officials from the richest and leading emerging economies will come together at an exhibition center near the famous Soweto township in South Africa — once home to Nelson Mandela — to try and find some consensus on the priorities set out by the host country.
They include more help for poor countries to recover from... Read More
Christian pastor's daughter urges US lawmakers to help free her father in China
WASHINGTON (AP) — The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide.Appearing before a congressional panel Thursday, Grace Jin Drexel said her father, Ezra Jin Mingri, was formally charged this week along with 17 other leaders of the prominent underground Zion Church. They were detained in October in one of China's largest crackdowns on a single church in decades.
It is among the largest churches that are... Read More
The Latest: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former Trump loyalist, says she will resign from Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday that she is resigning from Congress in January.In a more than 10-minute video posted online, Greene explained her decision and said she has “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and just never fit in.”
Greene’s announcement follows a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.
Trump branded her... Read More
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