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Britain’s Burnham is set to meet Trump for the first time at the UN in New York
LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham once said he would refuse to meet Donald Trump.
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Explosion injures 3 South Korean military officers inside DMZ bordering North Korea
An explosion has injured three South Korean military officers inside the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas. South Korea’s Defense Ministry says the explosion occurred Monday during an unspecified operation near the military demarcation line in the buffer zone commonly ref...
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Pope Leo XIV in France to find a secular country at odds with Catholic teaching on life
Pope Leo XIV opens a four-day visit to France this weekend that is expected to touch on church teaching about the value of all human life. His visit comes after France in 2024 enshrined abortion as a constitutional right and recently gave final approval to a bill allowing adults with incurable il...
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Germany's Merz struggles to stay on track after humiliating regional election defeat
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a struggle to stabilize his position and keep his agenda on track after voters inflicted two more defeats on his party, ejecting it from a state legislature for the first time. The unpopular Merz vowed to stay on and push through reforms to Germany, minutes ...
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Pakistan says airstrikes target militant hideouts in Afghanistan, killing 28. Kabul says 3 killed
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani jet fighters carried out airstrikes Monday on what security officials described as suspected militant hideouts in eastern Afghanistan, and claimed 28 of them were killed.
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Stocks advance after Bessent says talks with China were successful before Trump-Xi meeting
Asian shares are advancing ahead of the expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington. U.S. futures are also higher. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday t...
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Tyre’s ruins survived the strikes. Now divers are finding their way back underwater
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Beneath the Mediterranean waters off the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, divers swim past stone walls, ancient structures and a submerged road — remnants of parts of a city that once stood above the water.
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Sound of Music museum opens where the von Trapp story met Hollywood
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — An Austrian museum is alive with “The Sound of Music,” a first-ever venue devoted to the classic 1965 singalong movie starring Julie Andrews.
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Former husband and in-laws of Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi stand trial in her killing
HONG KONG (AP) — A murder trial began Monday for the former husband and in-laws of Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi more than three years after the discovery of parts of her dismembered body at a house shocked the city where violent crime is rare.
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As Russian strikes destroy millions of books, Ukraine's literary future hangs in the balance
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Seconds before the Russian drone struck, Viktor Kruglov was thinking about textbooks — tens of thousands of them, and how to get them to Ukrainian schools faster.
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China and the US are competing for AI dominance but have shared concerns over safety
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to meet this week to discuss artificial intelligence. The meeting comes amid rising concerns about AI's potential threats and the competitive tension between the two countries. On Sunday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...
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World leaders meet at UN as their planet grapples with war, division, runaway AI and climate shocks
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Under a global cloud of wars and bitter divisions, world leaders meet at the United Nations this week facing new fears that runaway artificial intelligence could threaten humanity even as climate shocks and escalating prices are already making life much tougher for hundreds ...
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Trump shattered Canada’s old US relationship. Carney is building a new one in Europe
TORONTO (AP) — For nearly four decades, Canada built its economy around closer integration with the United States. President Donald Trump has turned that dependence into leverage, imposing tariffs, threatening Canada’s sovereignty and openly seeking to pull Canadian industrial production south.
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Trump decries Democrats as 'communists,' even as he looks to impress China's communist leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — Communism, President Donald Trump says, is the greatest threat the U.S. has ever faced.
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Tiny wild cat newly identified as a species draws curious visitors in Bolivia
COROICO, Bolivia (AP) — A tiny wild cat hidden away in the cloud forests of Bolivia has become an unlikely tourist attraction, drawing a stream of visitors hoping for a glimpse of the animal that scientists have identified as a brand new species.
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Young people in Morocco split over whether politics can deliver change as election draws near
SIDI MOUSSA EL MAJDOUB, Morocco (AP) — A funeral in rural Morocco for an elderly woman became an unlikely campaign stop for candidates trying to motivate disenchanted young voters ahead of parliamentary elections Wednesday.
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Tropical Storm Polo forms off southwestern Mexico
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Polo formed late Sunday off southwestern Mexico.
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Bessent: US proposes AI incident alert system in talks with China
NEW YORK (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. has proposed a new “notification mechanism” for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security, part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House this week between President Donald Trump and C...
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Gold mine collapse in northeast Sudan kills at least 11
SHENDI, Sudan (AP) — A gold mine shaft collapsed in northeastern Sudan, killing at least 11 miners and injuring 30, a state official said Sunday, while a search continued for the missing under the debris.
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18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti's president being extradited from Haiti to US
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were being extradited to the U.S. on Sunday, marking the end of a drawn-out judicial process in Haiti for a killing that shocked the troubled Caribbean country.
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Pakistani forces kill 5 militants and free 23 hostages in operation in the southwest
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed five militants in an intense shootout and freed 23 hostages in the country’s restive southwest, the military said Sunday. It was unclear when the abductions took place.
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels warn against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen's growing civil war
A senior official with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels is warning countries against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s revived civil war. In an Associated Press interview Sunday, he also said the Houthis told the Trump administration that they won’t attack U.S. vessels in the Red Sea. Mohamed al-Bukha...
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Meloni plans to ban burqas and niqabs in Italian schools, and cap foreign students in classrooms
ROME (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Sunday she’ll soon introduce a measure to her government that would cap the number of foreign students in classrooms and ban the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools.
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Tropical Storm Fay forms far out in the Atlantic as Odalys strengthens in the Pacific
MIAMI (AP) — A new tropical storm formed Sunday in the northern Atlantic Ocean but does not appear to pose a threat to land.
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Early results show Russia's main Kremlin party dominating tightly controlled parliamentary vote
Early results from Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, released by the country’s election commission, show the main Kremlin party dominating the vote. The tightly controlled balloting was virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies and all but certain to cemen...
