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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. The Interfax news agency reported that a justice of the peace in a magistrate’s court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000)

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The leaders warned that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. The meeting Thursday came

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Bud Light’s parent company expressed confidence Thursday that its U.S. market share has stabilized after a promotion with a transgender influencer cost it sales. Anheuser-Busch InBev reported a 10.5% drop in U.S. revenue in the second quarter as Bud Light sales plunged amid a conservative backlash over a promotion

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard has rescued all 67 people from a ferry boat that struck a floating object and took on water off a northeastern province. It was the second ferry accident to hit the country in a week. Officials said a passenger on the Jovelle Express 3 managed to contact

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Greenpeace demonstrators draped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric Thursday to protest his plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Video posted by the group showed a crew dressed in bright red jumpsuits, helmets and safety harnesses

By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has demanded an end to the volatile clashes in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that troops may have to intervene if the deadly violence doesn’t stop. Najib Mikati called Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday after sporadic

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Banks from four Arab countries are interested in investing in Lebanon’s struggling banking sector, which has been hard-hit by the small nation’s three-year economic meltdown. That’s according to Wissam Fattouh, the Secretary General of the Union of Arab Banks, who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday

By The Associated Press Russia has added Norway to its list of “unfriendly countries” for allegedly targeting Russian diplomats abroad, further worsening its relations with the West. Under the order published Thursday, the number of local staff the Norwegian diplomatic mission can hire in Russia is limited to 27 people. In April, Norway expelled 15

BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. military has identified a soldier killed when a truck hit her Stryker armored vehicle on a highway in southern Germany. U.S. Army Europe said that 1st Lt. Hailey Hodsden was a platoon leader with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s 4th Squadron. She died in the crash near Tirschenreuth in Bavaria on

PARIS (AP) — France’s international news agency, Agence France-Presse, says it’s pursuing a copyright case against X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in an effort to secure potential payment for its news content. The news agency says it applied to a Paris judge to compel X to provide data that it says

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have asked the federal government for help as a local ethnic militia clashes with federal security forces. Flights to key cities have been halted. The deputy prime minister calls the situation “increasingly grave.” Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo is reporting a 52% increase in profit for the first fiscal quarter following the success of its Super Mario movie and the new Zelda video game. Demand was strong for Nintendo Switch game software, which received a boost from this year’s release of the film.

By NICOLE WINFIELD, BARRY HATTON and HELENA ALVES Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving young people from around the globe gave Pope Francis a raucous welcome to the World Youth Day festival in Portugal’s capital Thursday, in a sign of youthful support for the 86-year-old pontiff and his calls for

By SIMINA MISTREANU TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A highway bridge in northern China has collapsed due to flash floods triggered by heavy rains, and two cars have fallen into the river. There were no known casualties as of Thursday afternoon after the bridge collapsed along the Harbin-Mudanjiang Highway in Heilongjiang province, according to state media.

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas brought in 400 million euros ($437 million) from the first release of Yeezy sneakers left over after breaking ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, as the German sportswear maker tries to offload the unsold shoes and donate part of the

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian military commander who encouraged Catherine the Great to expand the Russian Empire into what is now southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands (AP) — A freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea has been towed to a Dutch port for salvage. The Fremantle Highway arrived Thursday at the northern port of Eemshaven. Scores of curious sightseers gathered to watch tugboats tow the

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court says officials can conduct a scientific survey of a 17th-century mosque in northern India to determine if it was built over Hindu temple. The Gyanvapi Mosque in the Hindu pilgrammage city of Varanasi. It’s one of several mosques in northern Uttar Pradesh state