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French president Emmanuel Macron is to visit violence-hit New Caledonia
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to New Caledonia, signaling French authorities' growing confidence that reinforced security and emergency measures are bringing unrest on the French Pacific territory under control. Government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot announced the trip. "He will go the...
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Greek prosecutor recommends dismissing charges in migrant shipwreck case
KALAMATA, Greece (AP) - Greek prosecutors recommended dismissing charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union's border protection and asylum operations, as their trial was opening on Tuesday. Speaking in a cour...
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Australia and New Zealand sending planes to evacuate nationals from New Caledonia's unrest
SYDNEY (AP) - The Australian and New Zealand governments announced Tuesday they were sending planes to evacuate their nationals from violence-scorched New Caledonia. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed Australia had received clearance for two flights to evacuate citizens and other tourists from New Caledon...
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Scottie Scheffler's Louisville court date postponed after arrest during PGA Championship
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky court has postponed pro golfer Scottie Scheffler's appearance on charges he injured a police officer and disobeyed commands outside the gates of Valhalla Golf Club as the venue hosted this year's PGA Championship. Scheffler, who was handcuffed and briefly jailed on Friday, had been due...
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Prosecution rests in Donald Trump's hush money case, and defense now gets its turn to call witnesses
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors rested their hush money case against Donald Trump on Monday, turning it over to the former president's lawyers for a chance to call witnesses. The defense has said it plans to call a campaign finance expert, a lawyer who offered to represent Cohen after the FBI raided his property in 2018 an...
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The Latest | Prosecution rests its case in Donald Trump's hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's hush money trial entered its final stretch as the prosecution's star witness Michael Cohen returned to the stand Monday. In his testimony last week, Cohen placed the former president directly at the center of the alleged scheme to stifle negative stories to fend off damage to his White Ho...
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Haiti's main international airport reopens nearly three months after gang violence forced it closed
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March. The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ea...
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Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood and covering up the scandal
LONDON (AP) - British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.'s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,0...
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (AP) - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas. Karim Khan said that he believes N...
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Ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse has been refloated and is moving back to port
BALTIMORE (AP) - The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated Monday and has begun moving back to port. The Dali has remained at the collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge's supporting columns on March 26, killing six construction...
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South Africa's top court rules former President Zuma cannot stand in election over criminal record
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's highest court ruled Monday that former President Jacob Zuma is not allowed to stand as a candidate for Parliament in a national election next week because of a previous criminal conviction, a decision that's likely to increase political tensions ahead of a pivotal vote. The...
May 20, 2024
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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-line diplomat, dies in helicopter crash
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the country's nuclear program, died in the helicopter crash that also killed the countr...
May 20, 2024
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Iran President Ebrahim Raisi, supreme leader's protégé, dies at 63 in helicopter crash
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country's supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Is...
May 20, 2024
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Edwards leads Wolves back from 20-point deficit for 98-90 win over defending champion Nuggets
DENVER (AP) - Anthony Edwards overcame a slow start and the Timberwolves roared back from a 20-point second-half deficit to eliminate the reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets 98-90 in a Game 7 Minnesota masterpiece on Sunday night. The Timberwolves overcame a 15-point halftime deficit - the largest comeback in a Game 7...
May 20, 2024
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Dominican Republic's president on path to reelection as main opponents concede
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is on the path to a second term following Sunday's general elections, with his top competitors conceding early in the night as he took a big lead in early vote tallies. The ballot came amid his government's crackdown along the country's...
May 20, 2024
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Official says rescuers see helicopter that was carrying Iran's president, others at a distance
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Rescuers on Monday found a helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials that had apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before. As the sun rose Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from...
May 20, 2024
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Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan's president in a transition likely to bolster island's US ties
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan has inaugurated Lai Ching-te as its a new president. It took place in a ceremony Monday after he won an election earlier this year. He is a relative moderate who will continue the self-governing island democracy's policy of de facto independence while seeking to bolster its defenses against...
May 20, 2024
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Schauffele wins thriller at Valhalla for first major at PGA Championship
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Xander Schauffele cashed in at just the right time Sunday by making a six-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the PGA Championship for his first major with the lowest score in major championship history. The Olympic gold medallist got something even more valuable in silver - that enormous W...
May 19, 2024
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Biden tells Morehouse graduates that he hears their voices of protest over the war in Gaza
ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking. "I support peaceful nonviolent protest," he told students, some who wore keffiyeh scar...
May 19, 2024
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Slovak prime minister's condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense...
May 19, 2024
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Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on th...
May 19, 2024
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Congolese army says it has foiled a coup. Self-exiled opposition leader threatens president
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's army says it "foiled a coup" early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At firs...
May 19, 2024
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Israel-Hamas war
Member of Israel's War Cabinet says he'll quit June 8 unless there's new war plan
Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's three-member War Cabinet, threatened on Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan in three weeks' time for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies.His announcement escalates a d...
May 19, 2024
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Seize the Grey wins the Preakness, ends Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid
Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...
May 18, 2024
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Giuliani becomes final defendant served indictment among 17 accused in Arizona fake electors case
Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes posted the n...
May 18, 2024
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Member of Israel's War Cabinet says he'll quit the government June 8 unless there's a new war plan
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's three-man War Cabinet, has threatened to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies. His announcement on Saturday escalate...
May 18, 2024
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Georgia's president vetoes media law that has provoked weeks of protests
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia's president on Saturday vetoed the so-called "Russian law" targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests. The law would require media and NGOs to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abro...
May 18, 2024
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Suspect in attempted assassination of Slovakia's prime minister makes first court appearance
PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) - The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first court appearance Saturday as the nation's leader remained in serious condition recovering from surgery after surviving multiple gunshots, Slovak state media said. Fico, 59, was attacked as he greeted s...
May 18, 2024
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