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Afghanistan’s gold rush upends lives, landscapes in northeastern Badakhshan province – World

Dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. In Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. Thousands of miners are deployed across the Shiwa area, about…

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New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill enters national political fray with first set of midterm endorsements, aimed at veterans

Washington — With three months to go until the critical midterm elections, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is taking her first major step onto the national political stage to help Democratic candidates with military service win in competitive frontline races.  The centrist Democrat, who won in a top battleground race last year, will use her…

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Abdul El-Sayed projected to win Michigan Democratic Senate primary, defeating Haley Stevens

Washington — Former Michigan health official Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, CBS News projects, in a closely watched contest that represented the latest test of the party’s divisions. El-Sayed, 41, ran on a leftist platform and secured the backing of prominent progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and…

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Human remains exhumed at site of controversial World War II massacres in Ukraine: “Each of them had their dreams”

Beneath two now-deserted villages in western Ukraine — the site of World War II-era massacres — archaeologists are uncovering the bones at the heart of a dispute that has strained relations between Warsaw and Kyiv for years. Disagreements over what happened and who is responsible for the Volyn massacres have long cast a shadow over…

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In final Michigan Senate Democratic debate, Stevens and El-Sayed spar over outside spending and personal attacks

Southfield, Michigan – Michigan Democratic Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens clashed on issues of spending by outside groups, the tone of the race and electability in the last televised debate before a pivotal primary election next Tuesday. The Democratic primary contest to fill the open seat of outgoing Democratic Sen. Gary Peters…

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