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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations children’s agency says that after last summer’s devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water. Tuesday’s statement underscored the dire situation in this impoverished country where the floods killed 1,739 people, including

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s parliament is debating ahead of a confidence vote brought by the nation’s far-right Vox party against the governing left-wing coalition. The motion has little chance of succeeding. No other party has said it will support the attempt by Vox’s 52 lawmakers to topple the government

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stressing to China unofficial stopovers to the U.S. by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to increase aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait. That’s according to a senior administration official who spoke about the sensitive matter on

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers have repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip. Tuesday’s action in the parliament could pave the way for an official return to the abandoned

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting out the word in advance that an expected unofficial stopover in the United States by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen would fall in line with recent precedent and should not be used as a pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from extreme weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopian capital. The “debt-for-climate swap” option

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne were among the “John Wick: Chapter 4″ stars honoring Lance Reddick, their co-star who died unexpectedly last week, at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. “We lost our brother, and in a really sort of very shocking way. I think we’re all

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn’t ready for a massive onslaught of cases, with hospitals turning away ambulances and crematoriums burning bodies around the clock. Chinese state media claimed the decision to open up was based on “scientific analysis and shrewd

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — For months, authorities have been urging civilians in areas near the fighting in eastern Ukraine to evacuate to safer parts of the country. But while many have heeded the call, others — including families with children — have steadfastly refused. So it has fallen to local police

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A legal expert investigating Sweden’s international adoption practices says she’s trying to determine if Swedish authorities knew of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children. Anna Singer spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday on a trip where

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says it is assessing Sri Lanka’s governance in the first case of an Asian country facing scrutiny for corruption as part of a bailout program. The IMF executive board approved a nearly $3 billion bailout program for the bankrupt nation Monday

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily — and in some places standing higher than a human being. A strike by Paris garbage collectors, which begins its 16th day on Tuesday, is taking a toll on the renowned aesthetics of the French capital, a

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Kyiv early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine casting a shadow over both meetings. It comes after a week in which China

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow is scheduled to stand trial on Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by a retired optometrist who said that the actress-turned-lifestyle influencer violently crashed into him in 2016 while skiing in Utah at one of the most upscale ski resorts in the United States.

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Apache group battling a foreign mining firm that wants to build one of the largest copper mines in the United States on what tribal members say is sacred land will get a new chance to make its point Tuesday when a full federal appeals court panel

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters have a chance to cast ballots in person starting Tuesday in the state’s high stakes Supreme Court race, the same day the two candidates were meeting for their first and only debate two weeks before election day. Both candidates were urging their supporters to

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The man responsible for running Venezuela’s oil industry — the one that pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculously cheap gas — has quit amid investigations into alleged corruption among public officials. Tareck El Aissami’s announcement Monday was shocking

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says its executive board has approved a nearly $3 billion bailout program for bankrupt Sri Lanka. About $333 million will be disbursed immediately, and the approval will open up support from other institutions. Sri Lanka last year suspended repayment of its