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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leader of the European Union’s executive commission has warned against China’s increasingly assertive actions in disputed Indo-Pacific waters and against Taiwan by citing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU wouldn’t tolerate aggression in either region. Von der

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China’s post-COVID rebound. Home sales are 30-40% below last year’s depressed level after the economy barely grew in the latest quarter, according to the owner, who would give only his surname,

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Four people are dead after the all-terrain vehicle they were in rolled over and burst into flames on a dirt road in central Washington’s Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Kittitas County sheriff’s officials say the side-by-side ATV crashed west of the town of Liberty on Saturday afternoon, and first responders arrived within minutes

By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security and health officials say a shooting at a heavily fortified security facility in the restive part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has killed at least four police officers, including a senior officer. At least 21 other officers were wounded in the shooting Sunday at the National

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve is spreading rapidly amid erratic winds. Meanwhile, firefighters reported progress Sunday against another major blaze to the southwest that prompted evacuations. The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the preserve was

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in an interview with the Danish public broadcaster DR that

UPLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot and two passengers were killed when a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar and burst into flames at a Southern California airport. The Federal Aviation Authority says the Beechcraft P35 with three people on board crashed during departure Sunday morning at Cable Airport in Upland. Police say

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people were killed after shots rang out in a crowd in the home city of Florida’s flagship university. The Gainesville Police Department said police officers had been conducting crowd control in downtown Gainesville, several blocks from the University of Florida campus, when they heard gunshots early Sunday. The

SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say four people found clinging to the hull of an overturned boat off New Jersey were rescued and taken to a hospital. Coast Guard officials in New York say Coast Guard crews and New York police and fire units were deployed to the area off Sandy Hook after receiving

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Dozens of Russian antiwar supporters in Serbia have held a protest after two prominent activists and critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin had problems with entry and residence permits in the Balkan country. Activists on Sunday held banners reading “We came to live in peace” and ”I love Serbia and I

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights groups urged three federal judges to reject Alabama’s newly drawn congressional districts, saying state Republicans prioritized partisan concerns over compliance with a court order to draw lines that are fair to Black voters. The groups representing voters who won the surprise U.S. Supreme Court

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated. Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Several thousand people briefly took to the streets across the Gaza Strip to protest the territory’s chronic power outages and difficult living conditions. Sunday’s rallies were a rare public show of discontent with the territory’s Hamas government. Hundreds joined marches in Gaza City, the southern town of Khan Younis

By DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government researchers say they’ve identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War. Of these, 212 are German, Austrian and Dutch nationals. Researchers were also able to find the likely areas where they died or were badly wounded. It

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” were tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival. When dangerously high temperatures engulfed Phoenix, almost