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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President William Ruto has declared Friday a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died due to ongoing flooding. The president on Wednesday said the day will be observed by national tree planting activities to help mitigate the effects of climate change. Kenya, along

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Human Rights Watch says an extremist group linked to al-Qaida carried out mass killings in two villages in central Mali in January. The watchdog said in a report that the group known as JNIM killed at least 32 people, including three children, during attacks on Jan.

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old protest. The House Committee on

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean.An ordinance from ENAC’s western Sicilian office said the flights interfered with the Italian coast guard’s exclusive role in coordinating search and rescue efforts and

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press STURTEVANT, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden has laced into Donald Trump over a failed project that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin. Now on that site, construction will start on a new data center from Microsoft, whose president credits the

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Defense Ministry is insisting that the months-long presence of two Chinese warships at a strategically important naval base that is being expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a permanent deployment of the Chinese military in the country. Questions had

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and few of those interviewed across the globe consider climate to be among the top three priorities for their government. A study commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a Denmark-based think tank, says Germany was in the lead when it

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban has rejected claims of Afghan involvement in recent attacks in Pakistan, calling it “irresponsible and far from the reality.” Pakistan’s military said Tuesday a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in March was planned in neighboring Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan citizen. Enayatullah Khawarazmi,

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A prominent Berlin politician has been violently assaulted and suffered injuries to her head and neck in the latest attack on elected officials that raises concern over rising political violence in Germany. Police say Frankziska Giffey, the city’s top economic official, a former mayor and an ex-federal

ISTANBUL (AP) — A cargo aircraft has made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed. A video on social media showed the Boeing 767 belonging to FedEx Express using the back landing gear and then dipping its nose with the front portion of the fuselage. State-run Anadolu Agency says the

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — China and European Union candidate Serbia have signed an agreement to build a “shared future” between the two states, making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing. After meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday, Chinese leader

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press BOULEVARD, Calif. (AP) — Mexico has begun requiring visas for Peruvians in response to a major influx of migrants from the South American country. The move follows identical ones for Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians. It effectively eliminates the option of flying to a Mexican city near the U.S. border. U.S.

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and KEN RITTER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former top executive at Las Vegas Strip casinos has been sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to violating federal anti-money laundering rules. A judge sentenced Scott Sibella on Wednesday in a federal court in Los Angeles, and fined him

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court is weighing whether to remove a measure from the November ballot that would make it harder for the state and local governments to raise taxes. The court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the measure that would require all new and higher

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disney has received another key approval to expand its Southern California theme parks in its first push to make major changes to its iconic Disneyland in decades. The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the plan to transform Disney’s 490-acre campus by moving parking and redeveloping a massive lot

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed a nighttime barrage of more than 50 cruise missiles and explosive drones at Ukraine’s power grid Wednesday, targeting a wide area in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a “massive” attack on the day the country celebrates the defeat of Nazism in World War

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day, with Chinese benchmarks rising after China reported better than expected trade figures for April. U.S. futures were slightly lower and oil prices rose. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was up

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — An appeals court has granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the city. “Glory to Hong Kong” was often sung by demonstrators during the huge anti-government protests in 2019.

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota has reported that its profit for the fiscal year that ended in March doubled over a year earlier, as strong vehicles sales and a favorable exchange rate lifted results for Japan’s top automaker. Toyota said Wednesday that its profit in the last fiscal year totaled

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza but a United Nations agency says no aid has yet entered. The key terminal for the entry of humanitarian aid was closed over the weekend after a Hamas rocket