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By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian prosecutors have asked lawmakers to strip former Prime Minister Sali Berisha of his parliamentary immunity because he did not abide by their previous decision to report regularly while he is being investigated for corruption. Prosecutors of the country’s Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime

By STEVE LeBLANC and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university’s highest governing body announced Tuesday. “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — All five people inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm have died, a Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday. Authorities had previously only reported that the occupants were seriously injured when the elevator plummeted 20 meters (66 feet) in Sundbyberg, a Stockholm suburb, on Monday. It is still

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British officials say an asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police investigation has been launched into the incident. Police said officers received “a report of a sudden death of a resident” on the barge, called the

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA AND BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is defending the high taxes the government recently imposed, calling them a “necessary sacrifice “in helping the country deal with ballooning foreign debt which now stands at $70 billion. President William Ruto spoke at celebrations marking 60 years since Kenya’s independence

BEIRUT (AP) — Jordanian troops have clashed with dozens of drug smugglers along the country’s northern border with Syria, leaving several dead including one soldier while another was wounded. The Jordanian Armed Forces said Tuesday the smugglers were trying to bring into Jordan “large amounts of drugs” while taking advantage of fog and low visibility.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded the EU’s top human rights prize. Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini was 22 when she died last year, three days after she was arrested by

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Floods, fires, historic storms — severe weather events are on the rise. If your home was hit by high water or a fire emergency, would your important papers be safe? Items like insurance information, birth and marriage certificates, passports, Social Security cards and estate planning paperwork should all be protected

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after repeated attempts to reach a deal with the rival hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer to shareholders of Wyndham, which runs Days Inn, La Quinta, Ramada and a host

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s culture minister has announced that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will become the new director of the Berlin International Film Festival next year. Tuttle, who is American, will take over in April from the outgoing leadership duo of executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters have rallied in the capital of the European Union for better public services, salaries and living conditions. The protest Tuesday in downtown Brussels takes place during EU negotiations over the new Stability and Growth Pact, which aims to limit debt and deficits for member

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The White House says Congo’s security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country’s eastern region near the border with Rwanda. It comes days before Congo’s presidential election. The region has struggled with violent conflict for decades and

By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India and SIBI ARASU, Associated Press Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United Nations climate negotiators have declared the world must transition away from oil, gas and coal. The decision by nearly 200 countries will likely be considered one of the most important in nearly 30 years

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have voted in favor of the government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. The vote keeps alive a policy that has angered human rights groups and cost the U.K. at least $300 million without a single flight getting off the

BRISBANE, Australia: (AP) — Residents have begun evacuating and battening down homes and businesses as the first tropical cyclone of Australia’s season is forecast to cross the northeast coast on Wednesday, bringing destructive winds and flooding rain. Tropical Cyclone Jasper was tracking west on Tuesday across the Pacific Ocean and was expected the cross the

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s newly elected prime minister, Donald Tusk, has vowed that his government will demand that the West keep helping neighboring Ukraine. In his inaugural speech to parliament on Tuesday, Tusk also called on Poland’s fractious political class to unite, saying it cannot afford

By NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and the United States on Tuesday showed their sharpest public disagreement yet over the conduct and future of the war against Hamas as the two allies became increasingly isolated by global calls for a cease-fire. The dispute emerged while

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has overturned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to recognize Misuzulu kaZwelithini as the king of the country’s 15 million-strong Zulu nation in what may spark a lengthy battle for the throne. In a judgment delivered by Judge Norman Davis in the Pretoria High Court

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday arrested the president of top-flight soccer club after he punched a referee in the face at the end of match, prompting the Turkish Football Federation to suspend all league games. MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca attacked referee Halil Umut Meler on the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has convicted three former soldiers in a sexual assault case that authorities had dropped until the victim came forward demanding a reinvestigation and prompting a military-wide harassment probe. The court sentenced them to two years in prison but suspended the sentences for four years,