Russian forces leave Snake Island, keep up eastern assault
By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island Thursday, potentially easing…
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OPEC+ oil boost likely not much help to high gasoline prices
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations have decided to boost production of crude by…
Continue ReadingAs Israel heads back to elections, Lapid stakes out vision
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself, triggering the country’s fifth election…
Continue ReadingNATO vows to guard ‘every inch of territory’ as Russia fumes
By JILL LAWLESS, JOSEPH WILSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press MADRID (AP) — An unstable world could get even more dangerous if NATO does not…
Continue ReadingPoland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out
By VANESSA GERA and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union,…
Continue Reading‘We cannot pause our lives’: Ukrainians begin rebuilding
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press YAHIDNE, Ukraine (AP) — On the outskirts of a Ukrainian village stand the remnants of a small school that was…
Continue ReadingIndia Hindus begin pilgrimage in Kashmir amid heavy security
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of Hindu devotees have begun an annual pilgrimage to an icy cave in…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Kirin gives up stake in Myanmar Brewery
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese beverage giant Kirin Holdings plans to transfer its stake in Myanmar Brewery to the…
Continue ReadingAsian shares mostly lower after pessimistic ‘tankan’ survey
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks were mostly lower on Friday, echoing a decline on Wall Street, after a quarterly…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand designates Proud Boys a terrorist organization
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has declared American far-right groups the Proud Boys and…
Continue ReadingIsraeli military, Palestinians clash at West Bank shrine
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says that Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Jewish worshipers at a flashpoint holy site in the occupied West…
Continue ReadingCheney presses primary foe on Trump’s false election claim
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has used a debate to press her Donald Trump-backed primary…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China
By DAVID RISING and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka’s strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the…
Continue ReadingChina’s Xi visits changed Hong Kong for handover anniversary
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the British…
Continue ReadingBig cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards
By CHRISTINA LARSON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and…
Continue ReadingWoman fatally shot while pushing stroller on Upper East Side
NEW YORK (AP) — A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side in…
Continue ReadingClimate concerns grow as US helps Europe replace Russian gas
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amos Hochstein, President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems, says he knows…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a lot to celebrate
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning…
Continue ReadingAbout half say Trump should be charged for 1/6: AP-NORC poll
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged…
Continue ReadingResilience Story: A bullet, a wheelchair, then perseverance
By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — There is a large photo of Jonathan Annicks on a wall at the rehab hospital where he was once a…
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