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TALKEETNA, Alaska -- Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20.
The animal's owners announced the cat's death late Saturday in a statement.
"Stubbs lived for 20 years and 3 months," the family wrote.
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Defying pressure from abroad and at home, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that a controversial election would go ahead next weekend for a new Congress his foes fear will institutionalize dictatorship.
"The imperial right wing believes it can give orders to Venezuela, the only ones who give orders here are the people," Maduro said in reference to a threat from U.S.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian state TV is reporting a strong 5.4 magnitude earthquake has led to a power outage in a remote area in the country's south.
The quake that struck at around 10 p.m.
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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's president has sacked a governor who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for his ties with al-Qaida.
The presidential decree by Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi was issued on Sunday.
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One man was killed and another two were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan's capital, the kingdom's Public Security Directorate said.
Before the shooting, Jordanians had entered the apartment building for carpentry work, the statement said.
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One man was killed and another two were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan's capital, the kingdom's Public Security Directorate said.
Before the shooting, Jordanians had entered the apartment building for carpentry work, the statement said.
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Anthony Scaramucci at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2017. (Michel Euler / AP)
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AMMAN, Jordan -- A Jordanian man was shot to death and an Israeli man was wounded in a violent incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman on Sunday evening, a security official and a news site linked to Jordan's military reported.
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