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BEIJING (AP) — The bodies of the remaining victims of a landslide in southwestern China have been recovered, bringing the death toll to 44 after four days of searching through the rubble of dirt and crumbled homes. State broadcaster said the final body was found on Thursday evening. The landslide slammed into houses at the

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited Kristersson to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into NATO. Kristersson said in a letter to Orbán he agrees more dialogue between the countries would be beneficial. Orbán’s invitation comes as Hungary and Turkey

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Several thousand university students and their supporters took part in a protest in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans by Greece‘s conservative government to allow privately run universities. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right government is pushing through several key pieces of legislation early in the new year, taking advantage of a

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed jobless benefits last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels despite elevated interest rates and a flurry of job cuts in the media and technology sectors. Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 214,000 for the week ending Jan. 20, an increase of 25,000 from the

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of Indians have flocked to a recruitment center in India for jobs as construction workers in Israel, willing to take the risk of going to a country embroiled in a devastating war with Hamas militants in Gaza. Jobs are hard to

By SEUNG MIN KIM and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden has returned to a deteriorating Midwestern bridge to argue that his administration is keeping its pledge to fix the critical link between the port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Biden visited the John A. Blatnik Bridge at the tip

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for the American founder of a Haitian orphanage who has been charged with sexual abuse revealed that his client was investigated but not charged by a grand jury about a decade ago. The revelation came in a court document filed Thursday by the attorney for

The archbishop of Port-au-Prince says six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released. Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor told The Associated Press on Thursday that the group was released late Wednesday and that everyone is in good condition. He declined to say whether a ransom was paid or to

By PAN PYLAS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A 32-year-old man who fatally stabbed two college students and a man months from retirement in the British city of Nottingham has been told he would “most probably” spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility. The judge told Valdo Calocane

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died. Her publicist Billy James told The Associated Press that Melanie died Tuesday. She was 76 and lived in

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement — 150 years after the items were looted from the Asante people during Britain’s colonial battles in West Africa. The British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, together

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new pro-European Union government and conservative opposition disagree on whether two opposition politicians pardoned this week can still serve as lawmakers. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government has moved to reverse policies of his predecessors that led to conflicts with the EU. The previously ruling right-wing Law and Justice party, frustrated

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man has been charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder for allegedly causing a fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the country’s worst disasters. The suspect was also charged on Thursday with arson

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Idol normally takes advantage of riding his motorcycle on Super Bowl Sunday knowing there’s hardly any traffic because millions are glued to their televisions. But this year, Idol’s bike won’t be leaving his garage on game day. Instead, the legendary British rocker will

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has accused the U.S. of abusing international law with its military maneuvers in the western Pacific, one day after an American naval destroyer sailed through the politically sensitive Taiwan Strait. Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said Thursday that U.S. warplane and warship activity “on China’s doorstep”

PARIS Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the influential agricultural sector from foreign competition, red tape, rising costs and poverty-levels of pay. Traffic-snarling drive-slows, barricades of straw bales, stinky dumps of agricultural waste and other expressions of anger have rapidly blown up

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The former leader of separatist rebels in Ukraine and a woman convicted of a bomb attack which killed a pro-war blogger were jailed by Russian courts Thursday. The Moscow City Court has convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s top diplomat says his country has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals who were recruited to fight in Ukraine and repatriate the bodies of those who were killed in the conflict. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said Thursday in an interview with