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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving…

By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure Monday for a cease-fire deal in Gaza as the…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a judge who was kidnapped after gunmen ambushed his vehicle has been freed in a late-night…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities on the Greek island of Samos say a migrant died and 25 others were rescued from a sinking dinghy that had left…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say a group of militants has attacked a police checkpoint in Russia’s North Caucasus region, killing two…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong transgender activist on Monday received a new ID card reflecting his gender change,…

By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A professor who helped save Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon is one of this…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Time marches on and all good things must come to an end. But don’t tell that to The Rolling…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as…

By The Associated Press Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people,…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Nine people charged with terrorism in connection with an alleged far-right plot to topple the…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, resigned on Monday, triggering a leadership contest as…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition leader has pressured President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police allege in court documents that four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López…

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — When a monster nighttime tornado came roaring into the southern Oklahoma town of…

By JIM VERTUNO, CEDAR ATTANASIO, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Protesters and police clashed Monday at the…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has postponed the reopening of its schools by one week due to ongoing flooding…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seven Minnesotans accused of fraud are set to stand trial in what prosecutors call a massive…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A trial for a mass environmental injury case is starting more than two years after a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend has begun…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press SHERIDAN, Ind. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress. In…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has vowed to stay in office and govern…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The leading candidate to be Panama’s next president is a last-minute stand-in who promises…

By RIAZAT BUTT and ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Naked and frail, a shaggy-haired man films himself as he endures solitude in a tiny room for months,…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change. Administrators were under…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — It took almost a half century for Brazilian singer Cátia de França to find her audience,…