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BERLIN (AP) — Prince Harry arrived in the western German city of Duesseldorf on Saturday where he will open the Invictus Games, a competition for wounded, injured and ill service personnel and veterans. Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, was welcomed by the mayor, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, and about 100 cheering

By DEMETRIS NELLAS and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The body of a missing 77-year-old man was found Saturday, raising the death toll from floods in central Greece to 11, authorities said. The number of missing increased to six, but there could be more. The man was living in the seaside village

By The Associated Press Follow live updates of a deadly, powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, killing more than 2,000 people and causing widespread damage in and around the city of Marrakesh. WHAT TO KNOW: — Morocco was shaken by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake late Friday — Morocco’s African Cup qualifier postponed because of quake —

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of the G20 summit. She vowed Saturday to “consolidate and deepen” relations as her government considers abandoning Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative of Chinese-built and -funded infrastructure projects. Neither government mentioned the initiative in brief statements after the

By NOREEN NASIR, AARON MORRISON and AISHA I. JEFFERSON Associated Press The racist motivations of the white shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are Black,

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Lawmakers in a breakaway Armenian-populated region of Azerbaijan have elected a new separatist president in a move that was strongly condemned by the Azerbaijani authorities. Samvel Shakhramanyan’s election on Saturday as the new president of Nagorno-Karabakh comes amid soaring tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s Foreign

By MATT O’BRIEN and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes have resumed at the largest refugee camp in Lebanon between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group and Islamic groups, killing three people and wounding 10 others. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, discussed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the volatile situation. In the early hours of

AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s qualifying game for the African Cup of Nations has been postponed in the wake of the earthquake that struck the country, killing more than 1,000 people. Morocco had been scheduled to play Liberia in Agadir on the country’s western coast, but the Moroccan soccer federation said the game had been

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier facing terrorism charges who snuck out of a London prison on a food delivery truck was captured Saturday, police said. Daniel Abed Khalife was nabbed while riding a bicycle along a canal path west of London after a four-day manhunt. Khalife escaped from

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee barreled over open waters Sunday night just northeast of the Caribbean, unleashing heavy swell on several islands as it regained some strength and expanded in size. The Category 3 storm is not forecast to make landfall and is expected to stay over

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas. They broke through a police barrier and sat on a road in The Hague heading to the lower

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Basketball has united the South Sudanese. The country which gained its independence just 12 years ago is still celebrating the men’s national team after its first-ever qualification for the Olympics. South Sudan will play at the Paris Olympics as the automatic qualifier from Africa thanks

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety from a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, whose forces continued pressing their counteroffensive on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its experts deployed at the Russia-occupied

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Police say violence erupted in India’s northeastern state with a history of ethnic clashes when armed men exchanged gunfire with security forces, leaving at least two dead. Police say the shootout took place in Pallel village in Manipur state on Friday. Police say that as reports of the shooting spread, hundreds

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia played its first home football game in 10 months on Saturday and went in hoping to create a high point in what remains a long, emotional journey that started in a horrific way. The day didn’t end the way they wanted; James Madison

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan have detained for interrogation close relatives of a couple wanted by U.K. police in connection with last month’s death of their 10-year-old daughter in the outskirts of London. A police spokesman in Jehlum, northwest of Lahore, said that Urfan Sharif and his wife

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the U.S. Open final. What

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the death of controversial South African politician and traditional minister of the Zulu ethnic group Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi at the age of 95. Buthelezi founded the Inkatha Freedom Party, the third-largest political party in South Africa when the country transitioned

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit in Kyiv, promising Tokyo’s backing and agreeing to start negotiations on security cooperation between the two countries. Hayashi, who had been on a tour of the Middle East and Poland earlier this