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UPMC confirms to Channel 11 that it will be laying off part of its workforce. In a statement, Paul Wood, the vice president and chief communication officer, said the health care system “continues to face the realities of a still-evolving, post-pandemic marketplace” and as a response to the ongoing challenges says “limited reductions are occurring.” […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people under the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surveillance “shocking and depressing.” “It is sad for me that even in […]

Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and “widespread death” from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, more […]

Mansoor and Mason Madden chronicle their recent travel woes. Last week, Mansoor and Mason Madden (fka Mace) surprised fans with an exciting debut at the Uganda-based Soft Ground Wrestling promotion. Following their appearance at SGW, the pair planned to fly back to Mansoor’s childhood home in Saudia Arabia to clean themselves up before heading out for their […]

TechCrunch Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M Conversational AI platform Parloa has nabbed $66 million in a Series B round, a year after it raised $21 million from a swathe of European investors to propel its international growth. It says this hub helped it sign up “several Fortune 200 companies” in […]

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for German-Turkish relations, which have been simmering on the back burner for some time, to be revitalized. “These are serious times. And that is precisely why we need each other,” he said at a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Wednesday. “That is […]

Pizza and gelato are two can’t-miss food items to be had on a trip to Italy, but strolling in search of a midnight slice may soon become illegale for residents and tourists alike in Milan. CNN reports that officials in the city have announced plans to ban sales of takeaway food after midnight. Marco Granelli, […]

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — A 74-year-old woman charged in the armed robbery of an Ohio credit union last week is a victim of an online scam who may have been trying to solve her financial problems, according to her relatives. Ann Mayers, who had no previous run-ins with the law, faces counts of aggravated […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the West of turning a blind eye to the suffering of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip during a visit to Ankara by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Gaza had been razed, he said. “Our German friends must see this tragic situation,” Erdoğan said on Wednesday in Ankara after […]

PARIS (AP) — Skies over the Paris region will be closed for six hours as part of the massive security operation for the July 26 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Paris airports operator said Wednesday. Augustin de Romanet, chairman of Aéroports de Paris, said airlines are being warned in advance about the closure […]

A lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will likely stand trial for insulting Bavaria’s conservative state premier, Markus Söder, during a speech last year. Stephan Protschka, who also serves as the AfD’s state chairman in Bavaria, denounced Söder as “Södolf” and called him a “traitor to the state” in a speech during […]