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7 dead as Russia, Ukraine exchange strikes and aerial war intensifies
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks killed four people across Ukraine Saturday, officials said, as the aerial war between Moscow and Kyiv intensifies.
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Photos of new amputee soccer league as it kicks off in Bucharest
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A new European soccer league for amputee players has kicked off in Romania’s capital. The European Amputee Football Federation inaugurated the Conference League in Bucharest. The tournament concluded on Friday with Maccabi Haifa FC of Israel winning against Scotland’s Ay...
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Pope encourages Catholics in deeply secular France to persevere as Paris shuts down for huge Mass
Pope Leo XIV is encouraging French Catholics to persevere in their faith. Leo opened his second day in France on Saturday by meeting with young converts. Their decision to join the Catholic faith has sparked optimism in the French church even amid an overall downward spiral of baptisms. The pope ...
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Rescuers pull 2 unconscious from collapsed building near the Acropolis in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescuers combing through the rubble of a building that collapsed in a blast in the Greek capital’s tourist district of Plaka, near the ancient Acropolis, recovered two unconscious people and searched for four others, authorities said Saturday.
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Pope Leo XIV declines to credit himself for White Sox playoff return
PARIS (AP) — Might a helping hand from Pope Leo XIV partly explain the Chicago White Sox’s improbable return to the playoffs?
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Where things stand after Iran's new pitch for a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz
It’s been a busy week for Iranian diplomacy that may have come to nothing.
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A new European soccer league for amputee players kicked off in Romania’s capital
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A new European soccer league kicked off in Romania’s capital this week, giving amputee players from countries lacking domestic leagues an opportunity to compete on an international stage.
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Trump posts map showing 'Trump Strait' off Iran, and other Mideast developments
U.S. President Donald Trump has posted an image of the Strait of Hormuz labeled “Trump Strait” shortly after Iran proposed a deal to open the waterway within a week if the U.S. meets certain conditions.
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One month after Nepal’s devastating floods, in photos
NUWAKOT, Nepal (AP) — A month after Nepal’s floods, thousands are still missing and families face a long recovery.
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Loud worship and other contrasts set apart Kenya's large community of Quakers
KAIMOSI, Kenya (AP) — A choir blasts a local hymn complete with musical instruments as congregants, mostly women clad in white dresses, dance and clap along. The Quaker meeting house in western Kenya is a sharp contrast to the deafening silence that is the norm among practitioners of the faith in...
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11-year-old Japanese player Yuki Kurihara wins esports gold medal at the Asian Games
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Eel is his favorite training food, he's only 11 years old, and he found his niche in his sport when he was in kindergarten.
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Heavy rain and flooding in Bangkok disrupts traffic and prompts evacuations
Incessant rain has hammered several areas of Thailand’s capital, disrupting traffic and forcing hundreds to evacuate. Authorities declared the city a disaster area. Thailand’s Meteorological Department warned that the deluge, which began Thursday, would continue through Sunday. Accumulated rainfa...
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Far-right settlers divert West Bank spring water as Israel backs heritage site takeovers
PETZAEL, West Bank (AP) — The natural springs and ancient pools of the occupied West Bank have long provided a respite from the oppressive summer heat. They also have been a lifeline for Palestinian communities, which rely on them for tourism and irrigation for their farmland.
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China has kept its promise to stop funding overseas coal, but loopholes are helping coal expand
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to stop funding overseas coal power plants in an effort to help curb climate change. Five years later, as the assembly meets this week, the world's climate commitments are dangerously offtrack...
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Photos of record-breaking swimmers and more from the Asian Games’ first week
NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — The first week of the Asian Games, the continent’s biggest multi-sport competition, saw Japan’s Shin Ohashi break the men’s 200-meter breaststroke world record and China’s 13-year-old Yu Zidi win three swimming gold medals.
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Brazil's President Lula bans online betting ahead of presidential election
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday signed an order banning fixed-odds betting just over a week ahead of the first round of the presidential election, in a move he said was designed to tackle the pervasive problem of families falling into debt.
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UN refugee chief urges action from Security Council so displacement no longer crosses generations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. refugee chief urged the world’s divided nations Friday to focus on ending conflicts and crises so the more than 117 million people forced to flee their homes can return, and not spend generations displaced in a foreign country.
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Small bites from the UN: Terminator, outside meddling, more on that 'annihilate' comment
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The leaders of many island nations spoke of the dangers of climate change. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was also on scene, talking to reporters as part of New York Climate Week.
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UN tries to build momentum on pandemic preparedness, but hits a speed bump
NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after COVID-19 forced the U.N. General Assembly 's annual meeting of world leaders to go virtual for the first time ever, pandemics no longer dominate the conversation at the global gathering. Wars, natural disasters, geopolitical polarization and this year's hot-button ...
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Photos offer a glimpse inside Argentina disability care home Pope Leo XIV will visit in November
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At a Catholic home south of Argentina’s capital, residents with disabilities are eagerly preparing to welcome Pope Leo XIV as their caregivers struggle to secure medicine, diapers and other essentials.
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Demna sells a new Gucci fantasy as Moschino’s new designers loosen up the joke
MILAN (AP) — Gucci creative director Demna moved beyond the strict archetypes of his debut collection and fixed his gaze on the fashion house’s luxe heritage for his all-important second collection, previewed Friday during Milan Fashion Week.
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A White House press ban was lifted this week. But the tensions and legal battle aren't over yet
Journalists from three news outlets that President Donald Trump banned from White House grounds are back at the executive complex with TV cameras, laptops and microphones in hand.
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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election, interior ministry says
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the most seats in the country’s parliamentary election, taking 97 of 395 seats in the House of Representatives, according to final results announced by the Interior Ministry on Friday.
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From Gaza to Sudan to Nepal, more than 500 million children are in desperate need of education
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a stifling sixth grade classroom in war-torn Sudan, a very motivated teacher was giving a lesson to 120 very committed children. Among them: an 18-year-old girl uprooted three years ago by fighting, forced into marriage and motherhood too soon, but determined to finish he...
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They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year.
