Spanish prime minister calls early general election after battering in regional vote
By CIARÁN GILES and JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general…
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Poland’s president approves law on Russia’s influence that could target opposition
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he will sign a bill that creates a commission to investigate…
Continue Reading Iran supreme leader says he’d ‘welcome’ full diplomatic ties with Egypt; presidency websites hacked
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader says he’d “welcome” the restoration of full…
Continue Reading Authorities in Thailand seize more than a ton of crystal methamphetamine thought bound for Australia
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Thailand say they seized more than a ton of crystal…
Continue Reading Uganda’s president signs into law anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in…
Continue Reading IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned discharge of Fukushima nuclear plant water
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan…
Continue Reading UN agencies warn of starvation risk in Sudan, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali, call for urgent aid
ROME (AP) — Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina…
Continue Reading Malaysia detains Chinese barge on suspicion of looting WWII British warship wrecks
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British…
Continue Reading Nepal honors Sherpa guides, climbers to mark 70th anniversary of Mount Everest conquest
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government honored record-holding climbers Monday during celebrations…
Continue Reading Jewish settlers erect religious school in evacuated West Bank outpost after Israel repeals ban
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built a religious school at a dismantled…
Continue Reading UN talks on a treaty to end global plastic pollution open in Paris
By THOMAS ADAMSON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A United Nations committee is meeting in Paris to work on what is intended…
Continue Reading Bola Tinubu sworn in as Nigeria’s president amid hopes, skepticism
By CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — The new president of Nigeria has taken over the reins of power. Bola Tinubu was sworn in as…
Continue Reading PwC Australia sidelines 9 directors as leak of tax information investigated
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network has ordered nine…
Continue Reading 4 dead after tourist boat capsizes in storm on Italian lake
MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters say that they have recovered four bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden,…
Continue Reading Historic acquittal in Louisiana fuels fight to review ‘Jim Crow’ verdicts
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Evangelisto Ramos walked out of a New Orleans courthouse and away from a life sentence…
Continue Reading Sleepless in Kyiv: Nighttime Russian air campaign terrorizes citizens in Ukrainian capital
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the…
Continue Reading Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) — Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells,…
Continue Reading 25 NATO-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building
By RADUL RADOVANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force say that 25 of its troops were…
Continue Reading Pay per wave: Native Hawaiians divided over artificial surf lagoon in the birthplace of surfing
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) — Brian Keaulana is the quintessential Native Hawaiian waterman, well-known in…
Continue Reading As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The…
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