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By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal say a bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a truck. Nineteen people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Monday’s crash. President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened near Ngeun Sarr in the country’s north. The

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run. Matteo Messina Denaro was tried in absentia and convicted

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mail has asked customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations until further notice as it tries to address a “cyber incident” that is temporarily preventing the postal service from sending letters or parcels to other countries. Royal Mail says it continues to experience “severe service disruption” but didn’t

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The four-day event celebrating African musicians across the continent culminated Sunday evening in a stadium on the outskirts of Senegalese capital Dakar. This was the eighth edition of AFRIMA and the first to be held in a French-speaking country. Nigeria has hosted most of the events

By ELENA BECATOROS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As a crowd of thousands chanted “Long live the king” and “Constantine, Constantine,” the casket carrying the former and last monarch of Greece emerged from Athens’ metropolitan cathedral Monday after a funeral service attended by royalty from across Europe. Constantine’s wife, Anne-Marie, the

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following persistent criticism of her handling of military modernization programs and the country’s arms deliveries to Ukraine. Lambrecht said in a statement Monday that she had submitted her resignation request to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. She said that

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine left the site on Monday. The activists — nicknamed “Pinky” and “Brain” — had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to move away from atomic power. Yoon’s comments at a summit in

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Europe and Asia on Monday ahead of China’s release of economic growth figures and a policy update this week from Japan’s central bank. Oil prices declined. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 15,101.73 and the CAC40 in Paris was nearly unchanged

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report says companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities. The report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar details how the country has stepped up arms production since the

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than governments, nonprofits and the media in an increasingly divided world. That’s according to a survey from public relations firm Edelman released Sunday to coincide with the World Economic Forum’s

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty group Oxfam says companies making big profits as inflation surges should face windfall taxes to help cut global inequality. That’s one of the recommendations in a report the group released Monday as the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of political and business elites gets underway

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government says it plans to privatize electricity generation, a first for a U.S. territory facing chronic power outages as it struggles to rebuild a crumbling electric grid. The move announced Sunday marks the beginning of the end for Puerto Rico’s Electric Power

BERLIN (AP) — A village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to make way for a coal mine expansion has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remained holed up in a tunnel, police said Sunday. The operation to evict climate activists who flocked to the site in the hamlet

ROME (AP) — Italian energy giant Eni has announced what it calls a significant gas discovery offshore of Egypt in the eastern Mediterranean. In a statement, Eni on Sunday said the discovery occurred in the Nargis offshore area concession. Eni said it will further develop the offshore area thanks to a recent award of several

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received an honor guard welcome Sunday on a trip to the United Arab Emirates as he hopes to expand his country’s military sales here. Yoon’s visit comes as South Korea conducts business deals worth billions of dollars

By STEPHEN McGRATH AND VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest on Saturday to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who is detained in the country