KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in the war, just weeks after he was rebuked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The recent rapid advance by opposition fighters in Syria shows that Syrian President Bashar Assad must reconcile with his own people and hold dialogue with the opposition, the Turkish foreign minister said Monday.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a nearperfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery.

(AP) — A white Kansas police detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is on federal trial, part of a tangle of cases tied to decades of alleged abuse.

Lunch time!

Fourth-grader Bryson Garcia and fifth-grader Josselynn Guzman eat lunch at Nance Elementary during the Thanksgiving break.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival. They demand that major polluting nations be held to account.

Richardson Rental LLC and Richardson Rentals, LLC to Lucky Investment Properties, LLC, WD. Lots 1 and 2, Blk. 7, Pine Acres Second Addn. Weatherford.

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