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UAE's long-ailing leader Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed has died

The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government's state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73. The UAE's Ministry of Pr...

May 13, 2022

Russian soldier on trial in first Ukraine war-crimes case

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A Russian soldier went on trial in Ukraine on Friday for the killing of an unarmed civilian, marking the first time a member of the Russian military has been prosecuted for a war ...

May 13, 2022

Louisiana House removes murder charge from abortion bill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana women who have abortions will not be subject to murder or other criminal charges after legislators revamped an abortion bill Thursday night. The controversial bill would h...

May 12, 2022

The AP Interview: US 'vulnerable' to COVID without new shots

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn...

May 12, 2022

Jan. 6 panel subpoenas McCarthy, four other GOP lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 ins...

May 12, 2022

Delayed Southeast Asian Games begin in Vietnam's capital

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The Southeast Asian Games officially kicked off Thursday with a mask-optional opening ceremony in Vietnam's capital, the first major gathering in the country since the start of t...

May 12, 2022

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

WASHINGTON (AP) - The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, inc...

May 12, 2022

Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to end crisis

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reappointed Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and eco...

May 12, 2022

Rights group: Israel approves over 4,000 new settler homes

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel advanced plans for the construction of more than 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rights group said, a day after the military demolished homes in an...

May 12, 2022

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile toward sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of weapons demonstrations this years and jus...

May 12, 2022