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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for survivors after a building collapse in Nigeria’s capital left two people dead while many others are feared trapped. At least 37 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as crews continue rescue efforts Thursday. The building in the densely populated

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a top court in Pakistan’s capital is delaying a crucial ruling on an appeal from the country’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan against his recent conviction and three-year sentence in a graft case. The ruling, which was expected Thursday, has been delayed until Friday.

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including one in the country’s northeast that officials say is the largest recorded in the European Union. The wildfires have left 20 people dead over the last week. Eighteen of

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Abdihamid Nur’s winding road led the distance runner to the track this week at world championships in Budapest. It’s a journey that began in Somalia. His family fled there amid the country’s instability and headed to Egypt and then Kenya before coming to America. It

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian authorities say that an explosion has ripped through a Hamas militant site in the central Gaza Strip, killing one militant and seriously wounding another. The Gaza-based interior ministry didn’t reveal the cause of Thursday’s blast but said it killed Ashraf Hossain, a member of Hamas’ military wing, the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan’s neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant. Some people in South Korea say they won’t eat seafood, even after its conservative government endorsed the safety of the Japanese

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been chided by Parliament’s standards guardian for failing to declare his wife’s financial interest in a childcare firm that stood to benefit from government policy. The standards commissioner says Sunak broke the code of conduct for government ministers, but the mistake was “inadvertent” and he should

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The West African bloc ECOWAS has rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democratic rule, with a commissioner describing the slow timeline as a provocation. A commissioner interviewed by The Associated Press said the bloc remained open to diplomacy but was

By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia were among six countries invited Thursday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies in a move that showed signs of strengthening a China-Russia coalition as tensions with the West spiral higher. The United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt

JERUSALEM (AP) — An avalanche of rocks tumbled down a hillside onto a hiking trail near the Dead Sea in Israel on Thursday, trapping many people, killing a 5-year-old boy and injuring at least six others, medics said. The volunteer emergency medical service United Hatzalah said rescue teams recovered numerous people who were trapped under

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims from India crashed in southern Nepal killing at least seven occupants and injuring others. Police said the victims in Thursday’s early morning accident include six Indian nationals and and a Nepalese person. The crash occurred as the pilgrims were returning home to Janakpur in southern Nepal

By EMMA BURROWS and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a mercenary leader who was eulogized Thursday by Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian president was the architect of the assassination. One of

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end of November, Russian state news agency Tass reported. Gershkovich has been sitting in jail since the end of March when he was detained in the city of Yekaterinburg, almost 2,000km

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly fell Friday, discouraged by a Wall Street slump that followed a blowout profit report from Nvidia and mixed reports on the U.S. economy. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 1.8% to 31,713.24 in morning trading. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dipped nearly 1.0% to 7,111.60. South

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police have arrested 41 workers for poll monitoring groups and accused them of attempting to distort the results of the country’s widely delayed presidential election to favor the opposition. The arrests occurred Thursday as vote counting continued in many parts of the country after President

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-QABUN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian hamlet of al-Qabun in the central occupied West Bank was silent this week — the grazing fields for sheep deserted, the empty schoolhouse locked, the makeshift homes left as steel carcasses. The last families living there packed up two weeks ago, driven from

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top public education official has a new target in his culture war fight: the Tulsa school district. While all other districts in the state had their accreditation approved last month, State Superintendent Ryan Walters singled out the state’s largest district for further scrutiny. The board

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits. The push in the final weeks of the state’s legislative session is in response to multiple strikes. That includes hotel workers in Southern California, and Hollywood actors and writers. California does not have enough

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after she was convicted of sexually abusing two students. A judge order Malka Leifer to serve at least 11 years and six months of the sentence before she can be