Dog sniffs out cocaine hidden in wheelchair at Milan airport
ROME (AP) — A drug-sniffing dog has led frontier police at a Milan airport to discover some 13 kilograms (nearly 30 pounds) of cocaine stuffed into…
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Iran briefly seizes 2 US sea drones in Red Sea amid tensions
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran says its navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting…
Continue ReadingAs teachers worry, kids at Ukraine cadet school wait for war
DEREK GATOPOULOS and EFREM LUKATSKY Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The heavy rubber gas masks placed atop small wooden desks are nothing…
Continue ReadingBeijing taps into anti-West resentment to counter UN report
By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Hours after yet another assessment by outside observers that China’s crackdown in its far-west…
Continue ReadingGibraltar says some fuel still leaking from stricken ship
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar says some heavy fuel continues to seep from a damaged and partly sunken bulk carrier ship…
Continue ReadingQueen Elizabeth II to skip Highland Games event in Scotland
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Braemar Gathering, a popular Highland Games event, as she struggles with issues getting around. The…
Continue ReadingSudan says 7 killed in tribal clashes in restive province
CAIRO (AP) — Seven people have been killed in tribal clashes that erupted in a restive province of Sudan. The state-run SUNA news agency reported…
Continue ReadingFleeing Nicaraguans strain Costa Rica’s asylum system
By MOISES CASTILLO and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Since the summer of 2021, when Nicaragua President Daniel…
Continue ReadingIndia’s top court grants bail to activist in 2002 riots case
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to a prominent human rights activist who has…
Continue ReadingRecord-setting Sherpa guide contemplates retirement
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A farmer-turned-mountain guide who recently became the first person to climb all of…
Continue ReadingMarcos flying to Indonesia, Singapore on first foreign trip
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will travel to Indonesia and Singapore on his first overseas trip since taking…
Continue ReadingRights body urges Dutch to improve migrants reception
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s top human rights body is calling on the Netherlands government to drastically improve reception conditions for asylum…
Continue ReadingGermany confirms $28M settlement with Munich attack families
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has confirmed that families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics…
Continue ReadingCzech Cabinet survives no-confidence vote over energy prices
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s coalition government has survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling of the energy crisis…
Continue ReadingTurkish pop singer indicted for inciting hatred
ISTANBUL (AP) — A prosecutor has brought an indictment against a Turkish pop-singer for “inciting hatred and enmity,” a charge that carries…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka’s ousted president returns home after fleeing
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, ERANGA JAYAWARDENA and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya…
Continue ReadingIAEA to have ‘full picture’ of Ukraine nuclear plant in days
By YESICA FISCH Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting raged Friday near Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in a…
Continue ReadingMyanmar sentences ex-British envoy to 1-year prison term
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a former British ambassador to the Southeast Asian…
Continue ReadingMan arrested after fatal attack at German gay pride event
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say they have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a fatal attack on a 25-year-old man at a gay pride…
Continue ReadingAfghan mosque blast kills 18, including pro-Taliban cleric
HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people. including a…
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