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1 dead and 6 missing after luxury superyacht sinks in storm off Sicily

ROME (AP) - A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday. One body was found, six people remain missing and 15 people were rescued, authoritie...

Aug 19, 2024

Ukrainian officials issue an evacuation order for families with children from the city of Pokrovsk

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian local authorities on Monday issued a mandatory evacuation order for families with children from the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where 53,000 people still live. They say Ru...

Aug 19, 2024

Favorable views of Kamala Harris have risen this summer heading into the DNC, AP-NORC poll shows

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris is entering the Democratic National Convention with increased excitement from Democrats and a steady rise in her favorability ratings among Americans as ...

Aug 18, 2024

Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says

CAIRO (AP) - Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said Sunday. The African nation has be...

Aug 18, 2024

Ukrainian president says push into Russia's Kursk region is to create a buffer zone there

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday the daring military incursion into Russia's Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone. It was the first time the president had ...

Aug 18, 2024

Volcano erupts after powerful earthquake in Russia's Far East and scientists warn of a stronger one

PETROPAVOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (AP) - One of Russia's most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) into the sky over the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula and briefly...

Aug 18, 2024

Sudan's paramilitary fighters killed 85 people in an attack on a central village, residents say

CAIRO (AP) - Fighters from Sudan's paramilitary group rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children, authorities and residents sa...

Aug 17, 2024

Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall on Bermuda as a category 1 storm

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Hurricane Ernesto made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda early Saturday as residents hunkered down. The wide category 1 storm was directly over th...

Aug 17, 2024

Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case

DETROIT (AP) - A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak has agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter, ac...

Aug 16, 2024

Palestinian health officials say first case of polio confirmed in Gaza, in a 10-month-old child

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestinian health ministry said it recorded the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah. It's the first case in year...

Aug 16, 2024