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Thursday, February 2, 2023

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Vice President Kamala Harris, left, holds the hand of RowVaughn Wells as she is held by her husband, Rodney Wells, during the funeral service for her son Tyre Nichols at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tenn., on Wednesday.

Impassioned calls for police reform at Tyre Nichols' funeral

Tyre Nichols' family and friends gathered Wednesday for a funeral that blended a celebration of his life with outrage over the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police and heated calls for police reform.
Emergency workers and local residents clear the rubble Thursday after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

High-level Kyiv visit aims to deepen EU-Ukraine ties

Senior members of the European Union's executive branch traveled to Ukraine on Thursday looking to boost relations with the war-torn country and pave the way for it to one day join the bloc, but concerns over corruption and democratic deficiencies remain.
Emergency workers and local residents clear the rubble Thursday after a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

EU officials visit Kyiv as Russia strikes civilian target

Top European Union officials arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for talks with the Ukrainian government as rescue crews dug through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine that was struck by a Russian missile, killing at least three people and wounding 21 others.
Pope Francis, second from left, looks at traditional dancers performing at the Martyrs’ Stadium Thursday In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Francis is in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a “colonialist mentality” that has exploited Africa for centuries.

Pope rallies Congo's youth, and gets a thunderous response

Pope Francis urged Congo's young people to work for a peaceful and honest future on Thursday, directing himself to a generation that has been particularly hard hit by the country's chronic conflict and getting a raucous response when he acknowledged the corruption that threatens their prospects.
Syria on Thursday dismissed the findings of an investigation of which the global chemical weapons watchdog concluded that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in 2018.
Syria blasts chemical watchdog report on 2018 attack
Syria on Thursday dismissed the global chemical weapons watchdog's statement that investigators found "reasonable grounds to believe" the air force dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas on the city of Douma in 2018.
Security forces stand guard during a demonstration in front of the Iraqi central bank as currency plummets against the U.S. dollar in Baghdad, Iraq. In recent weeks, Iraq’s currency has taken a plunge as a result of newly imposed restrictions on dollar transfers from the U.S., leading to spiking food prices and political unrest.
Targeting Iran, US tightens Iraq's dollar flow, causing pain
For months, the United States has restricted Iraq's access to its own dollars, trying to stamp out what Iraqi officials describe as rampant money laundering that benefits Iran and Syria. Iraq is now feeling the crunch, with a drop in the value of its currency and public anger blowing back against the prime minister.
Austria’s government said Thursday that it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to U.N. agencies in the city, to leave the country.
Austria expels 4 Russian diplomats based in Vienna
Austria's government said Thursday that it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow's mission to U.N. agencies in the city, to leave the country.
U.S. Secret Service agents are seen in front of Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home in 2021. The FBI on Wednesday conducted a planned search of the home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents. That’s according to a statement from Biden’s personal lawyer.
Biden lawyer: FBI finds no classified documents at beach house
The FBI searched President Joe Biden's vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday without finding any classified documents, the president's attorney said. Agents did take some handwritten notes and other materials relating to Biden's time as vice president for review.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a 2022 news conference at the Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington.
Federal Reserve lifts rate by quarter-point and signals more hikes ahead
The Federal Reserve extended its fight against high inflation Wednesday by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point, its eighth hike since March. And the Fed signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further rate hikes.
Hunter Biden arrives in the East Room before President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people at the White House in July 2022.
Hunter Biden seeks federal probe of Trump allies over laptop
Lawyers for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, have asked the Justice Department to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who they say accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop that he dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. In a separate letter, Biden's attorneys have also asked Fox News host Tucker Carlson to retract and apologize for what they say are false and defamatory claims.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, leads an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress at the Capitol in Washington. The committee held its first hearing on fraud and waste in federal pandemic spending on Wednesday.
Republican-led committee targets COVID relief aid for review
House Republicans on Wednesday began their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration, focusing on what watchdogs described as "indications of widespread fraud" in federal coronavirus aid programs initiated under President Donald Trump.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in Washington.
Republicans set to oust Rep. Omar from Foreign Affairs panel
Newly empowered House Republicans are preparing to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born Muslim lawmaker, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her past comments critical of Israel -- and as payback after Democrats booted far-right GOP lawmakers from committees for their incendiary, violent remarks.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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