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By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s army has said that gunmen ambushed army troops in the West African country’s central region, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 11 others. The statement said that three army vehicles were destroyed after hitting explosive devices in the Mopti region between Koro and Bandiagara

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s lawmakers were poised Thursday to ratify a landmark defense deal with France that includes a mutual assistance clause in case of an armed attack against either, a pact that has irked fellow NATO member Turkey. The five-year agreement was announced in Paris

By KATHY GANNON and ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake has collapsed at least one coal mine and as many as 100 mud houses in a remote, mountainous part of southwest Pakistan. The quake early Thursday killed at least 23 people as the death toll crept higher. At least another

BERLIN (AP) — A 100-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany, accused of being an accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin during World War II. The trial of the defendant, who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, is being held

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus infections have soared to their highest level so far this year as authorities have struggled to control a surge in new cases amid a slow pace in vaccinations and few restrictions in place. The daily coronavirus death toll topped 900 for a second straight

MADRID (AP) — The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma has shut down again due to ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for almost three weeks. Scientists say the scenario is “still tense.” The eruption has settled down in recent days, though the volcano in the Canary Islands continues to spew

By JAY REEVES The Associated Press PELHAM, Ala. (AP) — Parts of Alabama remain under a flash flood watch after a day of high water across the state, with as much as 6 inches of rain covering roads and trapping people. One death has been blamed on the slow-moving low-pressure system: The Marshall County coroner’s

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — In a relationship as fraught as America’s and China’s, just an agreement that talks were productive was a sign of progress. Nine months into Joe Biden’s presidency, the two sides finally appear to be trying to ease tensions that date from the Trump administration — though U.S.

DUBAI. United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Shaheen that crashed through Oman has risen to 14 after the sultanate found the body of someone missing since the storm. Omani state television made the announcement Thursday, raising the total number of dead in the country to 12. In Iran, authorities have found

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The World Health Organization has started shipping COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a possible sign that the North is easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic border closures to receive outside help. WHO says it has started the shipment of essential COVID-19 medical supplies

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two leaders of a Kosovo veterans association have pleaded innocent to charges including obstructing justice and intimidation of witnesses as their trial opened at a court in The Hague. Hysni Gucati was Chairman of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans Association. He was arrested last

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine vice president and opposition leader Leni Robredo has registered her presidential candidacy for next year’s elections in a move that would bring the pro-democracy advocate to a new faceoff with the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Robredo joined a growing