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Spain: 1 dead in attack with bladed weapon at church

MADRID (AP) - One person was killed and another severely injured in an attack carried out by a person with a bladed weapon at a church in the southern city of Algeciras on Wednesday, Spain's interior ...

Jan 25, 2023

7 murder counts expected in Half Moon Bay farm killings

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors say they will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms with seven counts of murd...

Jan 25, 2023

Despite concerns, US to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. will send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, senior administration officials said Wednesday, reversing months of persistent arguments by the Biden administration that the...

Jan 25, 2023

Virginia teacher shot by student to sue school district

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student during class will sue the school district, the teacher's attorney announced Wednesday. Diane Toscano, a lawyer for Abig...

Jan 25, 2023

Man stabs passengers on German train; 2 reported killed

BERLIN (AP) - A man stabbed and wounded several people on a train in northern Germany on Wednesday before police detained him, and two of the victims died, German news agency dpa reported. Germany's F...

Jan 25, 2023

Prosecutor orders release of Beirut port blast detainees

BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's top prosecutor Wednesday ordered all suspects detained in the investigation into the deadly 2020 port blast in Beirut released, a lawyer for two detainees and judicial official...

Jan 25, 2023

Germany's Scholz to unveil Ukraine tank plan to parliament

BERLIN (AP) - The German government has confirmed it will provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks and approve requests by other countries to do the same. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that...

Jan 25, 2023

The AP Interview: Pope Francis: 'Homosexuality not a crime'

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as "unjust," saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to w...

Jan 24, 2023

The AP Interview: Pope on health, critics and future papacy

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis says he hasn't even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations and plans to continue for as long as he can as bishop of Rome, despite a wave of att...

Jan 24, 2023

Hearing underway in effort to free Hawaii man for '91 murder

HONOLULU (AP) - Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man who has been imprisoned for more than 20 years for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting Hawaii began presenting ...

Jan 24, 2023