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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military says it lost 36 soldiers in attacks blamed on armed gangs in the country’s northern region. The soldiers died Monday in the northcentral Niger state after they were ambushed by the gangs of bandits and after their helicopter crashed, a Nigerian defense spokesman told

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. rights chief says North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation worsens. Volker Türk spoke Thursday at the first U.N. Security Council open meeting

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A strong earthquake followed quickly by a strong aftershock shook Colombia’s capital and other major cities Thursday, sending panicked residents out onto the streets and damaging Colombia’s congressional chamber. At least one person was reported killed. The midday quakes were both centered about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Bogota, with

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Researchers have concluded there is a “rare but real risk” that an earthquake-produced tsunami could inundate parts of coastal Anchorage under certain conditions. Previously, researchers said the shallow waters of Upper Cook Inlet would work to diminish the power of a tsunami wave on Alaska’s largest city. But the Anchorage Daily

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network. Paramount notified bidders — including Tyler Perry, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Byron Allen — late Wednesday night about its decision to close the BET Media Group sale

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills quarterback Josh Allen is accustomed to having his public life picked over and documented with his star status in Buffalo and beyond showing no signs of cresting. He embraces as much of the celebrity trappings as he can, including Allen’s most recent accolade

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The global cat cafe trend, where people pay to have coffee and hang out with cats, has finally come to the besieged Gaza Strip. In the impoverished Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas militant group and crippled by a 17-year blockade, residents seeking to

RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) — The Red Lake Nation in northwestern Minnesota plans to roll out a mobile marijuana dispensary that will operate only on tribal lands. The tribe opened the state’s first recreational marijuana store this month. Minnesota Public Radio reports that the dispensary will resemble a food truck, and will allow the tribe

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian woman was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison in Washington Thursday in the mailing of a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President Donald Trump at the White House. Pascale Ferrier, 56, had pleaded guilty to violating biological weapons prohibitions in letters sent

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian intelligence operatives accused of direct involvement in the 2020 poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a Russian politician and corruption investigator who is one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Alexei

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis City Council members have narrowly passed a measure that would establish a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers. Under the measure, drivers would be paid at least $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute. It would only apply for the portion of the

SHIRLEY, Mass. (AP) — A large ice chunk fell from the sky and hit a house in Massachusetts on Sunday, damaging the roof of the home. Jeff Ilg said he and his wife suspect the ice fell off an airplane traveling to Boston Logan International Airport. The couple and their two children were not hurt

PRAGUE (AP) — Officials say a scheduled performance by Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko in the Czech capital has been canceled. The announcement came after the Prague government said on Monday that all its coalition parties opposed the concert at a time Russia wages war on Ukraine. Prague’s Municipal House, where Netrebko’s Oct. 16 performance

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s powerful paramilitary has been singled out by a leading rights group and 30 United Nations experts with accusations of rape and sexual violence against women. The separate statements on Thursday come as Sudan has entered its fifth month of conflict. Human Rights Watch says the paramilitary

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in the trailer for the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” stoked criticism of antisemitism, the conductor’s children have come to the defense of the actor. The teaser trailer for “Maestro,” which Cooper directs and stars in, debuted Tuesday and offered

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on two Turkey-backed Syrian militias and the groups’ leaders accused of human rights abuses in Syria’s northwestern, opposition-held enclave. The groups sanctioned on Thursday are based in the town of Afrin, which has been under Turkish-backed opposition forces since 2018, following

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” and familiar for attending games dressed as a wolf in the NFL team’s gear has been indicted by a federal grand jury that accuses him of armed robbery and money laundering in a string of bank heists across four states that netted

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has slammed the World Bank, calling the global lender “insufferable” for holding up new loans after the East African country enacted an anti-gay bill that includes the death penalty in some cases. A statement on Thursday by President Yoweri Museveni said he was struggling to

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones. The city joins the federal government and more than half of U.S. states in banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app on government-owned devices. A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams says the city’s top information

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans will select a new president Sunday between former first lady Sandra Torres in her third bid for the presidency and Bernardo Arévalo, son of ex-President Juan José Arévalo. They have staked out ideologically divergent positions leaving Guatemalans with a clear choice between a continuation of