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EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio police officer was shot and killed while answering a disturbance call over the weekend. Police in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid say officers were dispatched just before 10 p.m. Saturday to a home and the officer was shot and later died at a hospital. Ohio’s attorney general,

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister in a Cabinet shakeup that comes as he begins his fifth term in office. In line with Russian law, the entire Russian Cabinet resigned Tuesday following Putin’s glittering inauguration in the Kremlin, and most members have been widely expected

By JENNIFER PELTZ and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors’ biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president’s hush money trial. But if Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer jurors this week an insider’s view of

By The Associated Press An apartment building has partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod, and officials say at least 13 people have been killed and 20 others injured. Authorities blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction Sunday. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell. The

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. British Columbia’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team say that 22-year-old Amandeep Singh was already in the custody of Peel Regional Police

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t. That second jet was piloted by artificial intelligence, with the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian riding along in the front seat. It was the ultimate display

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Shopkeeper Nazer Mohammad ran home as soon as he heard about flash floods crashing into the outskirts of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. By the time he got there, there was nothing left, including his family of five. “Everything happened just all of a sudden. I

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A protest against rising costs of food, fuel and utility bills has turned violent in Pakistani-controlled portion of Kashmir, leaving a police officer dead and dozens of people injured. Traders in some of the cities in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir pulled their shutters down on Saturday while protesters burned tires to express their anger.

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Atlanta say three police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a man dead. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says officers responded at 5:15 p.m. Saturday to a report of an armed person and encountered a man with a handgun and a knife on Desoto Avenue.

By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEPH KRAUSS and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The exodus of Palestinians from Gaza’s last refuge accelerated Sunday as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern city of Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory’s devastated north, where some Hamas militants have regrouped in areas the military said it

By KASPARMAN PILIANG Associated Press PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods. Official said Sunday that at least 37 people were dead and more than a dozen others were missing. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major fire broke out in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets. Many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area on Sunday morning. The

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in a town in British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, after thousands were evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire. The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in size the following day, reaching about 17 square kilometers (4,200 acres). BC Wildfire

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters. The half was the ailing Nabulo, who at age 12 grasped her mother’s meaning.

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Memorial Day is always a somber occasion in Israel. But it has taken on a profound and raw sadness coupled with percolating anger in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Families of the fallen and broad segments of the public are demanding accountability from Israeli leaders

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Cannes Film Festival rarely passes without cacophony but this year’s edition may be more raucous and uneasy than any edition in recent memory. When the red carpet is rolled out Tuesday, the 77th Cannes will unfurl against a backdrop of war, protest, potential strikes and quickening #MeToo upheaval

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C. This is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on the

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of greatest climbing guides on Mount Everest has scaled the world’s highest peak for the 29th time, extending his own record for most times to the summit, expedition organizers said Sunday. Kami Rita reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak at 7:25 a.m. local time Sunday along

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don’t make a dent in the crisis. As state and local governments navigate

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian officials say a bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others. The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning to a high school in Depok outside Jakarta, the capital, from

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A familiar horror reached Pooja Kanda first on social media: There had been a sword attack in London. And then Kanda, who was home alone at the time, saw a detail she dreaded and knew all too well. A man with a sword had killed a 14-year-old

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in a decade, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial Monday with his political career and freedom on the line in a criminal case that already has forced him out of one of the most powerful posts in

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The controlled demolition of the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has been postponed because of weather conditions, officials said Sunday afternoon. Crews have been preparing for weeks to use explosives to break down the span, which is an estimated

By SUZAN FRASER and DEREK GATOPOULOS ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative Monday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. The two NATO members, which share decades of mutual animosity, a tense border and disputed waters, agreed to sideline disputes last December. Instead, they’re focusing

By DAVID A. LIEB and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. But the governor needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet some very specific

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Six years after plunging Spain into its worst political crisis in decades, Catalonia’s separatist parties are in danger of losing their hold on power in the northeastern region after the pro-union Socialist Party scored a historic result in Sunday’s election. The four pro-independence parties, led by

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Women have never held Indiana’s top office, but their streak as the state’s second-in-command appears to be going strong heading into the fall elections. Indiana is one of 18 states to never elect a woman as governor, according to the Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics,

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the inclusion of transgender people in the work force — unprecedented in Latin America expect in neighboring Uruguay — pulled her from the

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians have voted in a presidential election at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears about Moscow’s intentions. Those concerns are particularly pronounced in the strategically important Baltic region. The popular incumbent, Gitanas Nausėda, is favored to win another five-year term in office. But

By BOB THOMAS and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman