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By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care. The death has spotlighted cruel conditions in the country’s prisons. The respected Viasna human rights center said Monday that Vadzim Khrasko

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boeing told employees Monday that it plans to increase quality inspections of its 737 Max 9 aircraft, following the failure of emergency exit door panel on an Alaska Airlines flight last week. The inspections come after Federal regulators grounded the 737 Max, and that Boeing

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization. The Home Office said Monday that Parliament will debate this week a proposal to make joining the group illegal in the U.K. under terrorism laws. The ban would take effect on Friday if

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital on Monday, after spending two weeks there to treat complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from senior Biden administration leaders and staff for weeks. Austin will be working from home as

BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a flight school and a student pilot were among three people who died in a small plane crash in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts over the weekend, state police said Monday. Fredrika Ballard, 53, of Southwick, Massachusetts, owned the Fly Lugu Flight School while William Hampton, 68, of

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire has sent emergency vehicles to the complex. President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland when the call came in Monday morning. A person familiar with the matter says fire

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have opened a vandalism investigation into the spray-painting of a swastika on a wall adjacent to a Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia over the weekend. Authorities say the symbol, measuring about two feet by two feet and scrawled with green spray-paint, was reported Sunday on the wall adjacent to the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust

By JEFF MARTIN and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Communities across the nation celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with acts of service, prayer services and parades. But with the November presidential election as a backdrop, some events took on an overtly political turn. In King’s hometown of Atlanta, several

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he’s finally been sworn into office. After months of efforts to derail his inauguration, old guard legislators delayed Bernardo Arévalo’s swearing-in by 10 hours on Sunday. The ceremony ended up taking place very early Monday.

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military that is based in the country’s western state of Rakhine says it has seized a township bordering India and Bangladesh. Paletwa is the first township reported to fall to the Arakan Army. The group launched surprise attacks beginning in

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The party of former three-time Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has officially launched its general election campaign with a rally in Punjab province. The rally that Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party held in the city of Okara came a week after Pakistan’s Supreme Court scrapped a lifetime

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements. Long convoys of trucks and tractors disrupted traffic on Monday on the outskirts of Bucharest and other cities throughout the

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An independent analysis shows that most of the newly ordered maps redrawing Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the state Legislature would keep Republicans in majority control, but their dominance would be reduced. Seven sets of new state Senate and Assembly maps were submitted on Friday. The Wisconsin

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology says its lander is now headed back from the vicinity of the moon. Company officials expect the mission to end Thursday. They stress that the lander

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thirteen years after they toppled the country’s longtime dictator, Tunisians are protesting President Kais Saied for democratic backsliding. Hundreds of members of opposition parties marched through the streets of the country’s capital on Sunday, blaming Saied for quashing the aims of the revolution that kicked

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria say Turkish strikes have targeted dozens of infrastructure facilities wounding at least 10 people and cutting electricity and water supplies in wide areas held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the war-torn country. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said the 73 attacks over

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed