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Sunday, January 29, 2023

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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People walk next to the “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate Thursday at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland. Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II, amid horror that yet another war has shattered the peace in Europe. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.

Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp's liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.
White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients speaks during a 2021 press briefing at the White House in Washington.

Biden picks Zients as his next White House chief of staff

President Joe Biden announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of staff on Friday, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as Biden prepares for a reelection bid while facing an onslaught of investigations from a newly empowered House Republican majority.
Body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape, shown here in 2013, fighting for control of a hammer with 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of view and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.

Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home last year.
Men are seen through a smashed window of a damaged truck Thursday following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine: 10 killed in latest Russian shelling

A new barrage of Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the office of Ukraine's president said Friday as the country worked to recover from an earlier wave of Russian missile strikes and drone attacks.
Palestinians holding a Hamas flag protest Friday by the Dome of the Rock Mosque at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. The protest was a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in decades and raised the prospect of a major flare-up in fighting.
Palestinian gunman kills 6 near Jerusalem synagogue
A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed.
People gather outside of the Azerbaijan Embassy Friday after an attack there in Tehran, Iran. A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran’s capital Friday, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards, authorities said.
Fatal shooting at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran raises tensions
A gunman stormed the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran's capital Friday, killing its security chief and wounding two guards in an attack that spiked long-simmering tensions between the two neighboring countries.
Nikolai Romanov, a former monk known as Father Sergiy until he was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church, baptizes those present in the hall from behind a glass cage Friday during his trial in Moscow, Russia. The monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and challenged the Kremlin, was handed a new prison sentence Friday on charges of inciting hatred.
Russian coronavirus-denying ex-monk sentenced to 7 years
A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday.
Britain’s Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt said Friday that taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some in the governing Conservative Party for immediate tax breaks for businesses and voters.
UK Treasury chief: Tax cuts must wait for inflation to fall
Britain's Treasury chief said Friday that taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some in the governing Conservative Party for immediate tax breaks for businesses and voters.
Syrians walk through destruction in the town of Douma, after a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. A report published Friday by a team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
Watchdog blames Syria's air force for deadly chlorine attack
The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday that its investigators found "reasonable grounds to believe" Syria's air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
Ivon Adams, 36, was arrested in Arizona on murder and child neglect charges and returned to Oklahoma. An affidavit for Adams’ arrest alleges he beat 4-year-old Athena Brownfield to death the night of Dec. 25 and later buried her on property he and his wife once owned near the nearby town of Rush Springs, where authorities found the child’s body.
Oklahoma investigators identify body as missing 4-year-old
The body of a child found in Oklahoma earlier this month was positively identified as 4-year-old Athena Brownfield, who investigators said was beaten to death by a caregiver on Christmas.
Vice President Kamala Harris visits a memorial set up outside Star Dance Studio Wednesday in Monterey Park, California, to honor the victims killed in last week’s mass shooting.
Sheriff: Gunman didn't know Monterey Park dance hall victims
The 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with the victims and investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the massacre, the Los Angeles County sheriff said.
Chunli Zhao appears for his arraignment at San Mateo Superior Court in Redwood City, California on Wednesday. Zhao, a farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Zhao, 66, made his first court appearance.
Suspect in Half Moon Bay farm killings faces 7 murder counts
A farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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