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December 9, 2025
Starbucks to close hundreds of stores, lay off 900 workers as part of turnaround plan
Starbucks said Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the US, Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle…
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December 9, 2025
Court sentences Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison
PARIS (AP): A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign…
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December 9, 2025
‘A human tragedy is unfolding’
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): One of Haiti’s leaders on Thursday asked the world to help his troubled Caribbean country fight what he characterised as a war against relentless gang violence and widespread…
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December 9, 2025
Man facing execution for fatally beating 13-month-old girl during ‘exorcism’
HOUSTON (AP): A Texas man faced execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the…
December 9, 2025
Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and the Philippines
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years, whipped waves taller than lampposts onto Hong Kong promenades and turned seas rough on the southern Chinese…
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December 9, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago celebrating 49th anniversary of being a republic
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -Trinidad and Tobago is observing the 49th anniversary of Republicanism with President Christine Kangaloo noting that there were persons who had questioned whether the…
December 9, 2025
Three people shot at a Dallas ICE facility and the shooter is dead, official says
DALLAS (AP) — Three people, including detainees, have been shot at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal…
December 9, 2025
Update | Two detainees killed and another critically injured in Dallas ICE facility, Homeland Security says
DALLAS (AP) — A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing two detainees and wounding another before…
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December 9, 2025
ICE arrests one of Haiti’s most powerful and wealthy businessmen
SAN JUAN (AP): Federal immigration agents have arrested Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful businessmen and the latest elite figure from the troubled Caribbean country to be detained on US…