With one eye on China, Japan backs Sri Lanka as a partner in the Indo-Pacific
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says that Sri Lanka’s strategic…
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Indian opposition lawmakers visit violence-wracked state in bid to pressure Modi’s government
NEW DELHI (AP) — A group of Indian opposition lawmakers on Saturday visited a remote northeastern state where deadly ethnic clashes have killed at…
Continue ReadingA rebounding Pope Francis adds an overnight visit to France to his busy travel schedule
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will make a two-day trip to Marseille, France, in late…
Continue ReadingAn explosion at a firecracker factory in southern India kills 8 people, police say
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in southern India, killing eight people and wounding several others.…
Continue ReadingUS pledges to help Australia manufacture guided missiles by 2025
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The United States says it will expand its military industrial base by helping Australia…
Continue ReadingLebanon’s Hezbollah leader urges Muslims to ‘punish’ Quran desecrators if governments fail to do so
By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says that if governments of Muslim-majority…
Continue ReadingBlinken says US economic support for Niger is at risk as military takeover threatens stability
By BRIAN P. D. HANNON and ROD MCGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover…
Continue ReadingBurning cargo ship off Dutch coast will be towed to a new location after flames and smoke subsided
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says that salvage crews are preparing to tow a car-carrying…
Continue Reading5 injured in shooting at Seattle parking lot; police say no immediate arrests
SEATTLE (AP) — Five people were wounded in a shooting at a Seattle parking lot during which the police chief said “dozens and dozens of rounds”…
Continue ReadingTo wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books
By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a snug, wood-paneled Jewish bookstore in Hungary’s capital, Eva Redai…
Continue ReadingA drought alert for receding Lake Titicaca has Indigenous communities worried for their future
By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there…
Continue ReadingBlack Belt Eagle Scout’s latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe’s ancestral lands
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle…
Continue Reading30 days over 110 F in Phoenix. But expected monsoon rains could cool historically hot Southwest
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A historic heat wave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and…
Continue ReadingAfter an attack on Salman Rushdie, the Chautauqua Institution says its mission won’t change
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile…
Continue ReadingEx-New Mexico police informant headed to prison after admitting 5 bank robberies to feed addiction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies last year, including one bank he robbed twice, has been sentenced to…
Continue Reading‘God willing, we will meet again in Libya.’ A migrant family’s tale shows chaos at Tunisian border
By RENATA BRITO, ELAINE GANLEY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert,…
Continue ReadingWater is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, BEATRICE DUPUY and REBECCA BLACKWELL Associated Press KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to…
Continue ReadingFrench President Macron visits his counterpart in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting his Sri Lankan counterpart in the first visit by a French leader to the…
Continue ReadingFresh charges tie Trump even more closely to coverup effort. That could deepen his legal woes
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a stunning new allegation in an already serious case: Former…
Continue ReadingLGBTQ+ community proud and visible at Women’s World Cup
By MAX RALPH Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women’s…
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