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UN says at least 55 migrants drowned in shipwreck off Libya

CAIRO (AP) - A rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the U.N. migration agency said on Wednesda...

Apr 26, 2023

Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops' meeting

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making respons...

Apr 26, 2023

China's Xi talks with Ukraine's Zelenskyy by phone

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping appealed for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in a phone call Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, warning "there is no winner in a n...

Apr 26, 2023

US to send nuclear ballistic submarines to Korean Peninsula

WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday will sign an agreement that includes plans to have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in South Korea for the first time in more th...

Apr 26, 2023

Iran says senior cleric on Assembly of Experts shot dead

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A senior Shiite cleric in Iran was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack in a northern province along the Caspian Sea, authorities said. An attacker shot to death Ayatollah Abbas ...

Apr 26, 2023

Sudan military: Former ruler al-Bashir in military hospital

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's military said Wednesday that former autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir was being held in a military-run hospital, giving its first official statement on his location since ...

Apr 26, 2023

Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans...

Apr 25, 2023

Jury to deliberate in major Jan. 6 case against Proud Boys

WASHINGTON (AP) - The seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants went to the jury on Tuesday after dozens of witnesses over more than three months i...

Apr 25, 2023

Yosemite closes over flooding threat as huge snowpack melts

LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) - Park officials are temporarily closing much of the famed Yosemite Valley due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures are expected to melt the massive snowpack accumulat...

Apr 25, 2023

1 dead, 1 injured in blast at Chicago area petroleum plant

LEMONT, Ill. (AP) - An explosion at a suburban Chicago petroleum plant killed one person and injured a second Tuesday morning, authorities said. The Will County Sheriff's Office said that one person w...

Apr 25, 2023