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In secular France, chaplains prepare to provide Olympians with spiritual support during the Games

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As athletes rev up their training and organizers finalize everything from ceremonies to podiums before the Paris Olympics, more than 120 faith leaders are preparing for a different challenge — spiritually supporting some 10,000 Olympic athletes from around the world, especially those whose medal dreams will inevitably

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Bulgarians cast ballots for a new parliament and in European Union elections

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are choosing a new parliament Sunday while also participating in European Union elections that have been overshadowed by domestic political instability and economic inequality. There are worries that voter fatigue and wide disillusionment with politicians who do not fulfill promises to fight corruption and introduce

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South Korea resumes broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda at border in response to trash balloons

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un responded by warning

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In Mexico heat wave monkeys still dying, birds are getting air-conditioning, lions get popsicles

By MARK STEVENSON and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Amid Mexico’s heat wave and drought, suffering birds are getting air-conditioning and monkeys with heatstroke are being rescued by non-governmental groups. The government, meanwhile, has been more preoccupied with cooling down animals at state-run zoos, giving lions frozen meat popsicles. It’s not the

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Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz

By RAF CASERT, LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron. On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime

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A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Ohio nonprofit that provides off-site Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours says it will triple its programs in Indiana this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply. To participating families, nondenominational LifeWise Academy programs supplement religious instruction. But critics in Indiana

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Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike 2 ships in the Gulf of Aden, US military says

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have struck two ships in the Gulf of Aden, the latest assaults on shipping in the region. One anti-ship ballistic cruise missile hit the Antigua- and Barbuda-flagged cargo ship Norderney forward station late Saturday, starting a fire that those on

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Haiti’s new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the government said. It wasn’t immediately known why Conille was hospitalized. The office of the prime minister said in a

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Christophe Deloire, the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, has died. He was 53

PARIS (AP) — Christophe Deloire, the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, died Saturday. He was 53. Deloire negotiated to free imprisoned journalists and offered refuge to reporters under threat around the world. He had been battling sudden and aggressive cancer and died in Paris surrounded by loved ones. Media freedom

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