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Heavy rain was already causing flooding in some areas and the president announced that public employees would not have to work Thursday or Friday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm had regained hurricane strength late Wednesday night, with winds of 85 mph (140 kph), after fluctuating between tropical storm and hurricane status earlier this week. Otto "could seriously jeopardize food security for small-holder farmers who rely on maize, beans, cocoa, honey, coffee and livestock for their livelihoods," said Jennifer Zapata... Читать дальше...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled. Daniel McConnell said he was lying in bed at home in the Brisbane suburb of Hendra at 2 a.m. when a car slammed into the front of a neighboring fish-and-chips shop, which had closed for the night.

Europarlementsvoorzitter Martin Schulz stapt over naar de Duitse politiek. De kans is groot dat hij volgend jaar als SPD-leider de uitdager wordt van kanselier Angela Merkel.

Madonna zal er alles aan doen om haar zoon Rocco te steunen, zo heeft ze laten weten in een verklaring, meldt de Amerikaanse blogger Perez Hilton. De 16-jarige zoon van de zangeres en Guy Ritchie werd in september opgepakt omdat hij cannabis op zak had.

We have to talk about it so that victims feel they can too.

Take a look back at the president's best Thanksgiving-related moments over the past eight years.

Despite the up and down—and occasionally dismal—box-office performance for 2016 films, family and animated films have been nothing short of amazing. Don’t expect that to change on the weekend after Thanksgiving, one of the biggest family-friendly periods at the box office, as Walt Disney Co.’s Animation Studios releases “Moana.”

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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Ethnic rebel groups in northeastern Myanmar say their recent attacks on government forces were a response to military pressure and that they are still interested in peace talks.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Ethnic rebel groups in northeastern Myanmar say their recent attacks on government forces were a response to military pressure and that they are still interested in peace talks.

The Kachin Independence Organization said earlier its forces were countering government army attacks and it didn't seek to derail the talks to end decades of fighting between the government and more than a dozen ethnic minority groups.

An unlicensed young mother who had used drugs before she crashed her car, killing her two-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to a maximum of three years in jail, with a judge describing the case as one of the most tragic he had ever encountered.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police are investigating hate graffiti that was sprawled on the walls of a reform synagogue in the city of Raanana and death threats addressed to some reform leaders.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police are investigating hate graffiti that was sprawled on the walls of a reform synagogue in the city of Raanana and death threats addressed to some reform leaders.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police are investigating hate graffiti that was sprawled on the walls of a reform synagogue in the city of Raanana and death threats addressed to some reform leaders. Photographs in the Haaretz newspaper show envelopes with names of some of the leaders, including the president of America's Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs and also Anat Hoffman, the chair of Women of the Wall.

A prominent Wall Street analyst raises her year-end target for the S&P 500, but still sees it giving back some gains.

MANILA, Philippines — Continued engagement by the United States with Asia under President-elect Donald Trump would be good for both the region and America, the head of the Asian Development Bank said Thursday.

The Russian Northern Fleet’s anti-submarine ship The Vice-Admiral Kulakov has extended assistance to a Ukrainian fishing boat in the Mediterranean, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Nov. 24.

It could change the election result.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The head of the Asian Development Bank says a continued engagement by the United States with Asia under President-elect Donald Trump would be good for both the region and America.

Takehiko Nakao, who began his second five-year term as president of the Manila-based development bank on Thursday, also said there is a strong case for regional agreements to liberalize trade and investment despite Trump's threat to withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership.