KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, died Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said. He was …
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5/10/22
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pummeled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments critical to …
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By ELENA BECATOROS and JON GAMBRELL
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5/10/22
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign entered new territory Tuesday when the 96-year-old monarch delegated the formal opening of Parliament to her son and heir, Prince Charles.
The …
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By DANICA KIRKA
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5/10/22
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MONROE, La. (AP) — Three years ago, when a beaten and bloody Ronald Greene drew his final breath on a rural roadside, his death in Louisiana State Police custody seemed destined for obscurity.
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By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG
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5/10/22
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UMUIDA, Nigeria (AP) — As Anayo Mbah went into labor with her sixth child, her husband battled COVID-19 in another hospital across town. Jonas, a young motorcycle taxi driver, had been placed on …
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By KRISTA LARSON and CHINEDU ASADU
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5/10/22
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LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk, who is offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met with the bloc's …
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By KELVIN CHAN
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5/10/22
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s apparent landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is giving rise to immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in the …
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By DAVID RISING and JIM GOMEZ
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5/10/22
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A former Alabama jail official on the run with a murder suspect she was accused of helping escape shot and killed herself Monday as authorities caught up with the pair after more than a week of …
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By KIM CHANDLER and MIKE BALSAMO
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5/10/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new president says he’ll present “an audacious plan” to improve North Korea’s economy if it denuclearizes.
Yoon Suk Yeol made the offer during …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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5/9/22
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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5/9/22
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The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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5/9/22
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Vladimir Putin had no victories in Ukraine to proclaim on Victory Day. Nor did his speech at the Red Square military parade offer any clear pictures of when a victory may come or how it would be …
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By DANICA KIRKA
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5/9/22
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Pale and drawn, the last civilians sheltering in bunkers beneath a sprawling steel mill in the decimated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol arrived late Sunday night in …
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By ELENA BECATOROS
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5/9/22
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister was limping on Monday into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse.
Less than a year after …
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN
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5/9/22
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Shouts of “Hurrah!” echoed through Moscow's Red Square on Monday from thousands of troops and veterans as Russia celebrated Victory Day, marking the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany 77 years …
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By The Associated Press
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5/9/22
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies and a necessary move to ward off a potential …
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5/9/22
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police said Sunday forces captured two Palestinians who killed three people in a stabbing attack last week and fled the scene, sparking a massive manhunt and keeping …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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5/9/22
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s departing liberal president defended his policy of engaging North Korea, saying in his farewell speech Monday that he hopes efforts to restore peace and …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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5/8/22
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HONG KONG (AP) — There was little doubt over John Lee's election as Hong Kong's next chief executive.
A career police officer and the city's security chief received over 99% of the vote from …
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5/8/22
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Arooza was furious and afraid, keeping her eyes open for Taliban on patrol as she and a friend shopped Sunday in Kabul's Macroyan neighborhood.
The math teacher was …
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By KATHY GANNON
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5/8/22
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