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By JAMEY KEATEN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Twenty United Nations agencies and other international organizations are calling for peace, access to humanitarian support and respect for human rights in Sudan. The country in northeast Africa was plunged into chaos in April when months of simmering tensions between the military, led by

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gabon is refinancing $500 million of its debt through a deal aimed at directing more funds to ocean management. The so-called “debt-for-nature swap” is brokered by The Nature Conservancy, a leading international environmental NGO, which negotiated a deal with the Bank of America to buy back

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A migrant boat has sunk off Tunisia’s port city of Sfax, leaving five people dead and seven others missing. The dead included a child. Sfax is the starting point for most attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. A Sfax court spokesperson said 23

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Giants star Joc Pederson is scared to fly. Outfielder Seth Brown of the Oakland Athletics, too. They are hardly the only ones. Longtime manager Dusty Baker would bet that anxiety in the air has shortened more than a few careers. He recalls watching

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee running back Derrick Henry is delighted that his Titans teammate Ryan Tannehill enjoys flying and earned his pilot’s license this summer. Just don’t expect him to join his quarterback in a small plane anytime soon. “Oh, no! I am not going up

By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A country spends millions to deliver a major international sports event to the world. That money buys a chance to project strength at home and abroad and maybe even glosses over that country’s oft-dissected shortcomings. That pattern has played out in China,

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The military junta that seized power in Niger says it plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and undermining state security. The announcement came after the mutinous officers said they were open to dialogue with West African nations to resolve the regional crisis.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says he will run as a candidate in the presidential election early next year, in a race that also includes a popular former Finnish foreign minister who was a negotiator of the country’s recent membership in NATO. Stubb, who headed the Finnish government in 2014-2015

By DASHA LITVINOVA and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country’s currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine. The ruble has lost more than a

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has abandoned a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji after a problem with her government plane twice forced it to return to Abu Dhabi, delaying her by more than a day. Annalena Baerbock set off from Berlin Sunday on what was supposed to

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed missiles across Ukraine early on Tuesday, killing and wounding civilians and damaging infrastructure. The barrage came just hours before top Russian military officials and their counterparts from allied countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered outside Moscow for

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Victor Tsvyk harvested 4,800 tons of wheat this month, but after Russia exited a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to ship grain to the world, he has no idea where his produce will go. Or how his beloved farm will survive. Tsvyk, who normally exported up

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been acquitted by the high court of four corruption charges, days after his opposition bloc expanded its influence in local elections. Muhyiddin says the high court struck down four charges of abusing his power to obtain $50 million

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press TEL MEGIDDO, Israel (AP) — An ancient Christian mosaic bearing an early reference to Jesus as God is at the center of a controversy that has riled archaeologists: Should the centuries-old decorated floor, which is near what’s believed to be the site of the prophesied Armageddon, be uprooted and

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India’s economy will be among the top three in the world within five years. He made the claim on Tuesday as he marked 76 years of independence from British rule. Wearing a flowing, multi-colored turban, Modi addressed the country from New

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has renewed a peace pledge as Japan observed the 78th anniversary of its World War II defeat. He did not mention the country’s wartime aggression in Asia, while three of his former and current Cabinet ministers visited a shrine seen by neighboring

MOSCOW (AP) — A massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan killed 35 people and injured scores more, Russian officials said Tuesday. Russia’s Health Ministry said 115 people were injured in the blast and subsequent fire, and 35 of them died, including three children. A total of 65 of those

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, including a 16-year-old, in a raid in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said troops came under fire during an operation and shot back. Also Tuesday, an Israeli court released to house arrest

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MEG KINNARD Associated Press The fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump may be the most sweeping yet. The sprawling, 98-page case unveiled late Monday night opens up fresh legal ground and exposes more than a dozen of Trump’s allies to new jeopardy. But it also raises familiar legal issues of