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An Indigenous Australian senator was censured by fellow lawmakers Monday for a "disrespectful and disruptive" outburst at Britain's King Charles as he delivered an address to dignitaries in Parliament. ... Read full Story
Washington is easing limits on what Ukraine can strike with U.S.-made weaponry, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Sunday. ... Read full Story
The meeting will take place a day after The Associated Press reported that Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia. ... Read full Story
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At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in multiple waves of Russian missile strikes overnight on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, about 30 miles from the border with Russia's Kursk region. ... Read full Story
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country's nuclear weapons capacity "without limit" and completing war preparations against the United States and its allies, state media reported Monday. ... Read full Story
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Authorities in Australia on Monday arrested and charged veteran radio broadcaster and former national rugby team coach Alan Jones for sexually abusing seven adults and a 17-year-old over a two-decade span. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/17/2024 11:39 PM
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said "missiles will speak for themselves," following reports that U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to conduct strikes deeper into Russian territory. ... Read full Story
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Rescuers in Tanzania have reached survivors stranded when a building collapsed Saturday in the Kariakoo area of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania's biggest city, killing at least 13. ... Read full Story
Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns. ... Read full Story
Concerns storm surges could raise water levels between one and three feet above ground level as Tropical Storm Sara makes landfall in Belize. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/17/2024 11:19 AM
Russia said Sunday that it destroyed all its planned targets in a sweeping attack on critical energy infrastructure sites in Ukraine. ... Read full Story
Air defenses could be heard engaging drones over Kyiv in the night, and a series of powerful blasts rang out across the city as the missile attack was under way in the morning. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/17/2024 8:45 AM
The head of Hezbollah's media relations, Mohammad Afif, was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike that targeted a building in a densely-populated neighborhood in Beirut. ... Read full Story
John Kirton, head of the G20 Research Group, says the forum is the main tool countries have to prepare for the second Donald Trump presidency. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/16/2024 3:38 PM
Russia's state-owned natural gas supplier said it won't send any more gas to Austria after Saturday, but Austrian officials say that won't be a problem. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/16/2024 3:09 PM
The Israeli military continued an intense wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs on Saturday, including an attack on the militant group's headquarters in the Dahiya area. ... Read full Story
Israeli airstrikes on the village of Khreibeh in the Baalbek District of eastern Lebanon killed six people on Saturday, including three children the Lebanese health ministry said. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 11/16/2024 2:12 PM
A former student allegedly used a knife to attack dozens of students at a college in Yixing, China, and cause eight deaths and wound 17 others Saturday evening. ... Read full Story
'From our side, we must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means,' Zelenskyy said in a Ukrainian radio interview aired on Saturday. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 20, 2024 is:
snivel \SNIV-ul\ verb
To snivel is to speak or act in a whining, sniffling, tearful, or weakly emotional manner. The word snivel may also be used to mean "to run at the nose," "to snuffle," or "to cry or whine with snuffling."
// She was unmoved by the millionaires sniveling about their financial problems.
// My partner sniveled into the phone, describing the frustrations of the day.
"At first, he ran a highway stop with video gambling. 'To sit and do nothing for 10 to 12 hours drove me nuts,' he [Frank Nicolette] said. That's when he found art. 'I started making little faces, and they were selling so fast, I'll put pants and shirts on these guys,' he said, referring to his hand-carved sculptures. 'Then (people) whined and sniveled and wanted bears, and so I started carving some bears.'" — Benjamin Simon, The Post & Courier (Charleston, South Carolina), 5 Oct. 2024
Did you know?
There's never been anything pretty about sniveling. Snivel, which originally meant simply "to have a runny nose," has an Old English ancestor whose probable form was snyflan. Its lineage includes some other charming words of yore: an Old English word for mucus, snofl; the Middle Dutch word for a head cold, snof; the Old Norse word for snout, which is snoppa; and nan, a Greek verb meaning "to flow." Nowadays, we mostly use snivel as we have since the 1600s: when self-pitying whining is afoot, whether or not such sniveling is accompanied by unchecked nasal flow.