EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics
By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Lately, drag has been dragged through the mud. The art form has been cast in a false light in recent months by…
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Swiss claim record for world’s longest passenger train
GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most…
Continue ReadingRussia suspends Ukraine grain deal over ship attack claim
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced Saturday that it will immediately suspend its implementation of a…
Continue ReadingPakistan: Oldest prisoner freed from Guantanamo, back home
By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry says that a 75-year-old from Pakistan who was the oldest prisoner…
Continue ReadingRoyal Navy investigating claims women harassed on submarines
LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s Royal Navy said he is “deeply disturbed” by allegations that female submariners were bullied and sexually…
Continue ReadingHong Kong customs seize record meth haul worth $140 million
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs seized 1.8 metric tons (2 tons) of liquid methamphetamine in the city’s…
Continue ReadingAnne Frank’s friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at…
Continue ReadingGunman who attacked Iran shrine dies; Guard warns protesters
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian media say the gunman who killed 15 people at a major Shiite holy site in southern Iran earlier this week…
Continue Reading17 Australian women, children return from Syrian camp
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia says four women and their 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp since the…
Continue ReadingAhead of harsh winter, tourism roars back in Mediterranean
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press CAPE SOUNION, Greece (AP) — When Stelios Zompanakis quit his job at Greece’s central bank to try his luck at…
Continue ReadingWitnesses allege Eritrean abuses during Ethiopia peace talks
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Even as Ethiopia’s warring sides attend their first formal peace talks in a devastating…
Continue ReadingIndia to contribute $500,000 to UN to counter terrorism
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will contribute half a million dollars to the United Nations’ efforts to counter global terrorism. India’s…
Continue ReadingWorld Series: Astros head home to Houston leading Phils 3-2
By The Associated Press The Astros and Phillies travel Friday to Texas, where Game 6 of the World Series will be played a night later. Houston is on…
Continue ReadingPoland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland says it has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse to build its first nuclear power plant. The announcement is an…
Continue ReadingUN: 2022 likely deadliest for Palestinians in West Bank
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians…
Continue ReadingUS storm survivors: We need money faster, less red tape
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation’s disaster aid…
Continue ReadingMusk takes over Twitter and faces social media crash course
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Twitter’s newly minted owner, the self-described “free speech…
Continue ReadingBarnes’ Senate bid may ride on Milwaukee’s Black turnout
By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MILWAUKEE (AP) — In Wisconsin’s tight U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mandela Barnes’…
Continue ReadingCholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro, Lula make final appeals for votes
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made…
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