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By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Afghanistan that killed at least 46 people and wounded dozens. The claim, carried by the IS-linked Aamaq news agency and cited by the SITE

By DAVID McHUGH and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 130 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big, multinational companies are taxed in order to deter them from stashing their profits in offshore tax havens where they pay little or no tax. The

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called for a new national system to manage essential food, medicine and energy stocks after major disruptions caused by the pandemic. Friday’s speech came a day after the king appointed a new government made up of a coalition of liberal and

PLANTERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities are still searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Christopher Ramirez was last seen playing with a family dog near Plantersville, about 60 miles northwest of Houston. Family members say the boy followed the dog into a wooded area but hasn’t been seen since.

By SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland say two staff members have been fatally shot inside a senior living facility and one suspect is in custody. It happened Friday morning at the National Church Residences Gateway Village in Capitol Heights. Police said both victims were women, one found in

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Top science advisers to President Joe Biden are calling for a new “bill of rights” to guard against powerful new artificial intelligence technology. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday launched a fact-finding mission to look at facial recognition and other biometric tools used to

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have acknowledged for the first time that their officers were involved in violent pushbacks of migrants, after a video showed them using batons to beat people trying to enter the European Union country from Bosnia. The head of police on Friday said three members of an intervention unit have

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have discovered 642 Central American migrants in six trailers near the United States border. The trucks stopped at a military checkpoint Thursday night on a highway between Ciudad Victoria and Monterrey in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The state public safety agency said