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By OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A strike at the Eiffel Tower over poor financial management turned away visitors on Tuesday for the second consecutive day. The 330-meter (1,083-foot) landmark in central Paris has seen soaring sightseer numbers in the lead-up to the Olympics in the French capital. Tourists planning to visit the

LONDON (AP) — A UK based think-tank says Russia is rebuilding its capacity to destabilize European countries and extend its influence in the Middle East and Africa. The Royal United Services Institute says that Russia poses a strategic threat to NATO as its members focus on the war in Ukraine. In a brief but sweeping

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior European Union officials are welcoming a plan by Poland’s new government to address concerns about democratic backsliding. If implemented, they say the plan to roll back political influence over the judiciary could end legal wrangling that’s threatened to suspect Poland’s EU voting rights and blocked it

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet For years millennials have been treated like broke kids, which might have had some truth to it. But these days, millennials aren’t as young as we once were, evidenced by slang we don’t understand, the mystery of what kind of jeans are acceptable and the fact that our investment needs

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish farmers have blocked border crossings with Ukraine as they intensify nationwide protest against the import of Ukrainian foods and European Union environmental policies. Farmers across Europe have been protesting, worried that EU plans to place limits on the use of chemicals and on greenhouse gas

By EMMA BURROWS and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed Tuesday to President Vladimir Putin to intervene and turn her son’s body over to her so she can bury him with dignity. Lyudmila Navalnaya, who has been trying to get his body since Saturday, appeared in a video

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa argued at the United Nations’ top court on Tuesday that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and that Israel’s occupation of land sought for a Palestinian state is “inherently and fundamentally illegal.” Israel rejects such claims. The South African representatives were

By JILL LAWLESS and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Law enforcement agencies say they have infiltrated and disrupted a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world. Britain’s National Crime Agency says it led an international operation targeting LockBit, which provides ransomware as a service to so-called affiliates who infect victim networks with

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies are opening a door for Russian battlefield advances. He says the delays are making the fight “very difficult” along parts of the front line where Russian forces captured a strategic city last weekend ahead

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say a car crash in southern Serbia has killed three migrants and injured 11 others. A police statement says officers detained a 43-year-old Serbian driver, who had no driver’s license. The man, who was among those injured in the crash, is also suspected of people smuggling. The accident occurred late

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects nationwide, paid for by one of the Biden administration’s key legislative victories. Appearing in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Harris says clean water is a right and a way to protect public health. The $5.8 billion will pay for projects in

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden started a three-day swing through California, working to soak up more cash for his reelection bid. At his first fundraiser, he told supporters that his decades of experience in government has helped him better understand how to get things done. Biden’s campaign and

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in a town in eastern Spain is that of Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov, who flew a Russian army helicopter on his escape across the Ukrainian front lines last year. Andrii Yusov, a representative of Ukrainian

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens. One banner says that “Without us, you don’t eat.” The farmers’ demands are similar to those at farmer protests elsewhere in Europe. The center-right government has expressed sympathy

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the 100-yen retail chain Daiso, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80. The company said Yano died Feb. 12 of heart failure in Hiroshima. Yano founded his business as Yano Shoten in 1972. It took on the name Daiso

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are launching attacks despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes. This week they seriously damaged a ship in a strategically important strait and downed an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars. Their assaults on shipping through the crucial Red

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military rulers say they have dissolved the government and will appoint a new one. In a video address Monday night, Gen. Amara Camara said that daily business would continue as usual under the deputy secretary generals until a new government was formed. The West African

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as early as Monday. That’s according to a senior member of the country’s governing Fidesz party. It would bring an end to more than 18 months of delays by the nationalist government

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children’s agency warned that one in six children in

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday after technology stocks led Wall Street broadly lower on Tuesday, with investors waiting for chipmaker Nvidia’s quarter earning report. The report, which will come out later in the day, will put stock markets in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan on alert