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Guterres recommends that Iraqi ex-President Barham Salih take over UN refugee agency, letter says

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended that former Iraqi President Barham Salih become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, and the first from the Middle East in a half-century, according to a letter from the U.N. chief.

Salih, 65, is set to succeed longtime UNHCR veteran Filippo Grandi as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Grandi took office on Jan. 1, 2016, and his second five-year term expires on Dec. 31. He had succeeded Guterres in the post.

Salih, a native of Iraq's Kurdistan region, served as Iraq's president from 2018... Read More

Eurovision champion Nemo returns the winner's trophy to protest Israel's inclusion

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss singer Nemo, who won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has said they will return the winner's trophy because Israel is being allowed to compete in the politically troubled pop music competition.

In an Instagram video, Nemo held the microphone-shaped glass ornament and said “today I no longer feel like this trophy belongs on my shelf.”

“Eurovision says it stands for unity, for inclusion and dignity for all people,” Nemo said in the post Thursday, adding that Israel’s participation, given its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza, shows... Read More

AI stocks are falling with Broadcom, but the rest of Wall Street is picking up the slack

Artificial-intelligence stocks are falling again on Friday, but smaller U.S. stocks and other areas of the market that used to get left behind by Big Tech are picking up the slack. That’s keeping Wall Street indexes near their record heights.

The S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1% in early trading, coming off its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was adding 91 points, or 0.2%, to its own record, while the weakness for tech had the Nasdaq composite down 0.2%, as of 9:40 a.m. Eastern time.

Broadcom fell 7.7% even though the chip company reported a... Read More

Rare fresco of Jesus as the 'Good Shepherd' uncovered in Turkish town visited by the pope

IZNIK, Turkey (AP) — Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.”

The painting was discovered in August in an underground tomb near Iznik, a town in northwestern Turkey that secured its place in Christian history as the place where the Nicene Creed was adopted in A.D. 325. Pope Leo XIV recently visited the town as part of his first overseas trip.

At the time, the region was part of the Roman Empire, and the tomb in the village of Hisardere is... Read More

2 Wisconsin congressional redistricting lawsuits may not resolve by 2026 midterm election

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of two lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin would not be resolved until after the 2026 midterms under a timeline up for approval Friday.

Democrats who brought a second challenge in the battleground state are seeking a more aggressive schedule that would get that case decided in time for the November elections.

Scheduling conferences in both cases on Friday come the day after Indiana Republicans soundly rejected President Donald Trump's demand that they redraw congressional lines... Read More

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Guterres recommends that Iraqi ex-President Barham Salih take over UN refugee agency, letter says

Eurovision champion Nemo returns the winner's trophy to protest Israel's inclusion

AI stocks are falling with Broadcom, but the rest of Wall Street is picking up the slack

Rare fresco of Jesus as the 'Good Shepherd' uncovered in Turkish town visited by the pope

2 Wisconsin congressional redistricting lawsuits may not resolve by 2026 midterm election

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