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NEW YORK (AP) — English-language editions of a Vietnamese novel set everywhere from Saigon to Paris and of poetry by Egypt’s Iman Mersal are this year’s winners of National Translation Awards. The awards were announced Sunday by the American Literary Translators Association, which is marking the awards’ 25th anniversary. Thuân’s novel “Chinatown,” translated from the

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve captured the third of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month. The FBI and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office say 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell was captured Sunday morning at a home in Augusta. The sheriff’s office says large quantities of drugs also were found at

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York Congressman Brian Higgins says he will leave office before the end of his current term early next year, after 19 years. The Buffalo, New York, Democrat says he’s grown frustrated with dysfunction in the U.S. House of Representatives. At a news conference Sunday, he

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom. The event passed without incident despite fears that 0tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony. London’s Metropolitan Police Service deployed more than double the usual number of officers

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Officials say a part of an under-construction road tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state popular with tourists has collapsed after a landslide, trapping more than 30 workers. Manohar Tamta, an Uttarakhand state relief official, said rescue work is in progress and oxygen is being pumped

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Progressive U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has drawn a prominent Democratic primary challenger. Former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced Sunday that he’ll try once again to unseat her after coming close in 2022. Omar has won reelection twice despite accusations of antisemitism. She has come under

OAKLAND, Maine (AP) — The boys’ high school soccer team in the Maine city that was the site of a mass shooting more than two weeks ago has won the state title. The Lewiston Blue Devils beat Deering 3-2 on Saturday in the Class A boys’ soccer state championship game. The shootings at a bowling

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. The clashes came as skirmishes between the Iran-backed group and Israeli military continue to intensify along the Lebanon-Israel border, threatening to escalate into another front in the

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital. Thunberg was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia State University officials say a wounded university police officer’s condition has improved to stable. The officer was critically wounded in a shooting near the VSU campus at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say the off-duty officer was responding to a disturbance at the campus in Petersburg, Virginia. The suspect ran

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali authorities say floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of the country. Since October, floods have displaced nearly half a million people and disrupted the lives of over 1.2 million people, and have caused extensive damage to civilian

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America — to audiences large and small, from churches and colleges to spiritual centers and soup kitchens — in a demanding schedule of appearances in her second tenacious, against-the-odds run for the presidency. The bestselling spiritual author and one-time advisor to

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia had made clear his Election Day expectations. He was pushing for a Republican majority in the Virginia House and Senate to come out of last week’s closely watched legislative elections. Instead, Democrats ended up taking both chambers. That means Youngkin

By AAMER MADHANI and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping have no shortage of difficult issues to discuss when they sit down for their first talks in a year, even if expectations are low that their meeting will lead to major breakthroughs. Each leader has clear objectives

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has a simple reelection pitch to voters — let him “finish the job.” So what does that mean? What’s left for him to get done? Unlike Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination who has been releasing videos and statements detailing

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have ramped up attacks in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to gain ground near two key front line cities, Ukrainian military officials said Sunday. Moscow’s troops have begun a push to regain territory near Bakhmut, the eastern mining city that was the site of

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and “freedom cities” built on federal land. Much of the 2024 presidential campaign has been dominated by the myriad investigations into former President Donald Trump and the subsequent charges against him. But with

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — More than 180,000 people across France, including 100,000 in Paris, have marched peacefully to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, representatives of several parties on the left, conservatives and centrists of

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces are meeting in the United Arab Emirates to talk about almost anything that isn’t an airstrike. The discussions at the Dubai