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DENVER -- U.S. Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot.

The Trump campaign vowed that they "will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court." (US-Election-Trump)

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DAMASCUS -- Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday condemned the intensifying Israeli military operation in Gaza, the state news agency SANA reported.

In a phone conversation, both ministers expressed grave concern about the escalating situation in Palestine, particularly the Gaza Strip, and condemned "the continuous Israeli and Western aggression against the Palestinian people," the report said. (Syria-Iran-FMs-Gaza)

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LOS ANGELES -- NASA is preparing to launch a new mission that will stare at the space between stars, helping build a 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy, the agency said.

The GUSTO mission, which stands for Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory, will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station research base, no earlier than Dec. 21, according to NASA. (US-NASA-Milky Way)

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JERUSALEM -- The U.S. cybersecurity giant Okta has reached an agreement to acquire the Israeli identity protection startup Spera Security, the two companies announced on Tuesday.

The amount of the acquisition was not reported by the two companies, but it was estimated by the Israeli business website Calcalist at 100 to 130 million U.S. dollars. (Israel-ID Startup-Takeover) Enditem

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