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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Emerging from their big wins on Super Tuesday, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump head to Georgia, where they’ll campaign for votes in Tuesday’s presidential primary. The day will likely have additional significance for Trump, as voters in a total of four states may award

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces are searching large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region for nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier. It is the second mass kidnapping in the country in less than a week and analysts blame them on the failure of intelligence

By KAREN MATTHEWS and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December and faces federal charges of defrauding donors to his 2022 campaign, has announced he is running for the House again. Santos, a Republican who is just the sixth member to be ousted by fellow House

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Washington state might put former President Donald Trump over the top in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump won hundreds of delegates on Super Tuesday, putting him within reach of becoming his party’s presumptive nominee. But to do so, Trump will need to

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose NATO-member country has sought to balance its close relations with both Ukraine and Russia, offered during a visit Friday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to host a peace summit between the two countries. Erdogan, who has repeatedly discussed

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hawaii Republicans will hold caucuses Tuesday to cast votes in a presidential nomination contest in which former incumbent Donald Trump is the only remaining major candidate competing. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her campaign this week. Hawaii could help Trump clinch the nomination on Tuesday

By TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Osprey, a workhorse aircraft vital to U.S. military missions, has been approved to return to flight after an “unprecedented” part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan in November, Naval Air Systems Command announced Friday. The

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities say they are in talks with Russia’s government about the return of Indian citizens who were duped into working for the Russian army. India’s foreign ministry on Friday said the government has initiated action against a network of agents who lured the men to

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuela’s presidential election so far is a one-horse race for incumbent President Nicolás Maduro. That’s not for a lack of potential challengers, or because of any great affection from voters. It’s because he’s the only politician with the means for a campaign and a guaranteed

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers have approved sweeping reforms that will end the state monopoly on university education. That breaks what powerful left-wing student groups have long regarded as a major taboo. Hours before the vote, protesters attacked police outside parliament with petrol bombs and firecrackers

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will quit as a lawmaker when an election is called this year. The move will end a 27-year parliamentary career that included three years as prime minister during a period roiled by Brexit. May told her local newspaper that

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. The report covers the one-year period from Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese envoy crisscrossed Europe for talks on ending the war, the Chinese foreign minister trumpeted the export of Chinese cars to Russia and Russian natural gas to China. The

KYIV (AP) — Ukraine’s former military chief has been appointed the country’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom. It comes a month after he was sacked as head of the armed forces by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy announced that he has approved the appointment of Valerii Zaluzhnyi to one of Ukraine’s most important diplomatic positions.

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has reported large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, as leaders showcase the ruling Communist Party’s determination to safeguard national security and public order. Top judicial officials presented reports from China’s Supreme People’s Court and from its top prosecutors on

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy. The U.N. mission published its findings in the

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship bearing humanitarian aid was making preparations to leave Cyprus and head for Gaza, the European Commission president said Friday as international donors launched a sea corridor to supply the besieged territory that is facing widespread hunger after five months of war. The opening of

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. He was 68. Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga series, which started in 1984, has sold millions of copies globally and was adapted into hugely popular

HONG KONG (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Asia stock market activity on March 12. The story was inadvertently republished.