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By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s monarchy system has died in a prison hospital. Netiporn Sanesangkhom was a member of an activist group known for bold and aggressive campaigns demanding reform of the monarchy

By MORIAH BALINGIT, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and DYLAN LOVAN of The Associated Press and DANIEL BEEKMAN of The Seattle Times ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Across the country, the story for families is virtually the same: Child care is unaffordable for many, hard to find for those who can pay, and financially precarious for day care

By DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press ORONO, Maine (AP) — Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality. Floating turbines are the only way for some countries and U.S. states to capture a massive amount of offshore

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday’s move wraps up years of work and comes just as campaigning for next month’s Europe-wide elections gathers pace. Migration could be an important issue. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum

PARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalism as “unspeakable.” She said the memorial was defaced overnight Monday to Tuesday. The attack

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either crashing or doing something that may have

BERLIN (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Katharina then took over as

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court has ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison. The decision on Monday follows a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl’s future. The state court

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday approved a “foreign influence” bill that critics call  a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The

By JOSH BOAK, FATIMA HUSSEIN, PAUL WISEMAN and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says in defending his new tariffs on Chinese products that China’s government subsidies ensure its companies don’t have to turn a profit, giving them an unfair advantage in global trade. The Democratic president on Tuesday slapped tariffs

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Diego Maradona’s heirs will file a lawsuit to try to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina, their lawyer told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Golden Ball trophy rewarding the best player of

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record. Violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East together drove two-thirds of the new movement. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found the

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t until after a decade in the fold, after his family pleaded with him, after the FBI raided his office, apartment and hotel room, Michael Cohen testified Tuesday, that he finally decided to turn on Donald

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One evening in November 2020, a year into his military service, Peacemaker Azuegbulam’s lifelong dream of being a soldier came to an abrupt end. He was among a group of Nigerian soldiers deployed in the country’s grinding counteroffensive against Islamic extremists in northeastern Borno state when

By The Associated Press Russian authorities have arrested a second senior Defense Ministry official on bribery charges days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister in a Cabinet shake-up. Russia’s top law enforcement body said Tuesday the chief of the ministry’s main personnel directorate, Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, was arrested and placed in custody

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mine authorities in southern Poland say that two miners are dead and one is missing while 12 others were hurt following a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine. A company official said the cave-in happened early Tuesday in an underground area where 15 miners were working. Eleven were immediately brought to

BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, in the latest show of unity between the two authoritarian allies against the U.S.-led Western liberal global order. Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, the

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH and BISWAJEET BANERJEEE Associated Press VARANASI, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has filed his nomination to run for a third term in the country’s general election in the northern city of Varanasi, which is his constituency. Modi hopes to retain his seat in the holy Hindu city, from