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By FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa was re-elected for a second and final five-year term late Saturday in results announced much earlier than expected following another troubled vote in the southern African country with a history of violent and disputed elections. An opposition party spokesperson

By RUSS BYNUM, TERRY SPENCER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A masked white man fatally shot three Black people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store in a predominately African-American neighborhood on Saturday, in an attack where he used a gun painted with a swastika, officials said. The shooter, who had

GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Crews in Louisiana were still working to suppress flare-ups as an oil refinery fire burned for a second day along the banks of the Mississippi River. Residents are now worried about health effects from the fumes and black smoke. The Marathon Patroleum company said Saturday that tests have so far found

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania say a fire at a fueling station caused an explosion that killed at least one person and injured at least eight others, prompting an evacuation of the immediate area. A second explosion at the station Saturday injured at least 26 firefighters. The explosions happened at a fueling station

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say a University of South Carolina student from Connecticut was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street. A Columbia Police Department news release says 20-year-old Nicholas Anthony Donofrio was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Conservative lawmaker Nadine Dorries has stepped down from the House of Commons more than two months after announcing she was quitting. Dorries served as culture secretary in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government and had said she would quit Parliament when Johnson did, which was in

By YVES LAURENT GOMA Associated Press LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon’s government has imposed a nationwide curfew and cut off internet access as voting wraps up in major national elections. Voters in the Central African nation cast ballots Saturday for local leaders, legislators and president. Incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba is seeking a third seven-year

A second container ship has left port through a temporary Black Sea corridor established by Ukraine’s government after Russia halted a wartime agreement aimed at ensuring safe grain exports. The Primus, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, left the port of Odesa on Saturday morning and was steaming south toward Bulgaria. Its departure came 10 days after

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer Bob Barker, the enduring, dapper game show host who became a household name over a half century of hosting “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right,” has died. He was 99. Barker — also a longtime animal rights activist — died Saturday morning at his home in Los

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish economy is getting a boost from the Notre Dame football game in Dublin. The Pittsburgh Steelers are benefitting, too. The NFL team has front-office representation in Dublin this weekend supporting American football initiatives and gathering intel on the Irish market now that it has

BERLIN (AP) — The deputy governor of the German state of Bavaria has rejected allegations that he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer as a high school student. Hubert Aiwanger said on Saturday that he didn’t write the flyer and considers its contents “disgusting and inhuman.” He said he knows who created it and that

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding and landslides across the eastern Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba, and Florida braced for a possible hurricane by midweek, as a weather system off the coast of Mexico was expected to become a tropical storm by Sunday, the

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has appealed a Moscow court’s decision to extend his pretrial detention in Russia until the end of November. The American journalist was arrested on espionage charges in March during a work trip to the city of Yekaterinburg. An order that authorized keeping Gershkovich in jail before trial was set

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An oral surgeon has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend who overdosed on anesthetic drugs that he administered at his Maryland home. Fifty-year-old James Ryan faces a maximum of 55 years in prison when he is sentenced at a date to be determined. Jurors who convicted Ryan on Friday heard testimony

MILL RUN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an EF-2 tornado brought down trees and damaged homes as well as a resort and campground in southwestern Pennsylvania, injuring at least six people. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said an EF-2 tornado with peak winds estimated at 120 mph was on the ground for more than

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina coroner says a toddler died inside a hot car after her mother forgot that she left the girl in the vehicle parked outside a South Carolina high school. Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell told The Post and Courier that he believes the 16-month-old girl died on Friday due

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Mystery hunters converged on a Scottish lake on Saturday to look for signs of the mythical Loch Ness Monster. The Loch Ness Center said researchers would try to seek evidence of Nessie using thermal-imaging drones, infrared cameras and a hydrophone to detect underwater sounds in the lake’s

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston police commissioner says two people have been arrested and multiple weapons recovered in a shooting that wounded at least seven people Saturday morning in a city neighborhood. Police say all seven were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. Police responded around 7:43 a.m. to multiple gunshots in a Dorchester neighborhood.

HARTFORD, Vt. (AP) — A hot air balloon made an emergency landing on a highway median in Vermont after becoming stalled in flight. The Valley News reports that five people were aboard for a sunset ride Wednesday night when the pilot landed the craft safely on the Interstate 91 median in Hartford. Traffic was shut

BEIRUT (AP) — Opposition activists say insurgents in northwest Syria have attacked a government position killing and wounding more than 30 troops. Saturday’s attack came days after Russian and Syrian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on the last major rebel stronghold in the northwest killing several insurgents. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an