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Jose Mourinho banned for four matches and fined after Turkish referees comment

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho was given a four-match ban and fined by the Turkish Football Federation following his comments about Turkish referees after a match at Galatasa...

Feb 27, 2025

Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting some temporary relief to a coalition of labor uni...

Feb 27, 2025

Iowa Senate OKs bill removing gender identity protections, sending change to the House

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Senate approved a bill Thursday that will strip gender identity protections from the state's civil rights code, sending the proposal to the Iowa House for possible fin...

Feb 27, 2025

Mexico sends drug lord Caro Quintero and 28 others to the US as officials meet with Trump team

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has sent drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States with 28 prisoners requested by the U.S. government, a Me...

Feb 27, 2025

British PM Starmer extends state visit invitation to Trump from King Charles, and Trump accepts

WASHINGTON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday extended a state visit invitation to President Donald Trump on behalf of King Charles. Trump accepted the invitation, which came at th...

Feb 27, 2025

Vatican says Pope Francis continues to improve but his prognosis remains guarded

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis continued to improve from double pneumonia Thursday, the Vatican said, though doctors said he needs more days of "clinical stability" before they revise their guarded prognosi...

Feb 27, 2025

Imprisoned Kurdish leader urges PKK to disarm and disband as part of peace effort with Turkey

ISTANBUL (AP) - Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens o...

Feb 27, 2025

Dozens reportedly injured after explosions rock a meeting of M23 rebel group leaders in Congo

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) - Dozens of people were reportedly injured Thursday after two explosions hit a meeting of M23 rebel group leaders and residents in the captured city of Bukavu in eastern Congo. Vide...

Feb 27, 2025

Andrew Tate, who faces rape and trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the US

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have left Romania for the U.S. after a travel ban on them was lifted, an official said Thursday. The brothers are charged with hum...

Feb 27, 2025

Austria is getting a new coalition government without far-right election winner

VIENNA (AP) - Three parties announced Thursday that they have reached a deal to form a new centrist Austrian government, five months after an election was won by a far-right party that later failed in...

Feb 27, 2025