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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations is seeking $4.3 billion at a pledging conference in Geneva to alleviate the suffering of millions of people in Yemen. Monday’s conference deals with the Arab world’s poorest country, where an eight-yearlong war has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. U.N. officials

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is pushing back against a demand by the country’s data protection commissioner to take down its Facebook page over data privacy concerns. The commissioner said last week that he had given the government’s press office four weeks to shut down the page. He argued that people who run such

By RICK CALLAHAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press Powerful storms with widespread wind gusts and reported tornadoes swept across Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving more than a dozen people injured, and some Michigan residents faced a fifth-straight day Monday without power following last week’s ice storm. In California, the National Weather Service said a series of

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — It was pharmacist Gwendolyn Herzig’s first time testifying before a legislative committee when she spoke to several Arkansas lawmakers in a packed hearing room this month about a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Herzig, who is transgender, spoke out against the legislation and told

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese air force serviceperson has filed a lawsuit against the government saying it had failed to protect her from verbal sexual harassment from a male colleague and then systematically covered up the problem for more than a decade. The plaintiff is seeking $85,800 in damages from

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis will visit Hungary at the end of April. That is according to an announcement by the Vatican on Monday. The April 28-30 trip is expected to focus on migration to Europe and Russia’s war in Ukraine. It’s a proper state visit after

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of activists are blocking the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people from raising reindeer in Arctic Norway. A handful of activists who had occupied the ministry’s lobby over the weekend shifted their protest Monday

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Financial envy is common — we see what others have and wish we had it, too — but it can also be destructive. Financial therapists say that the most effective way to deal with those feelings is to explore what is really behind them. Perhaps you want to increase your

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland say they were reviewing an unverified statement by an Irish Republican Army splinter group claiming responsibility for the shooting of a senior police officer. A statement purportedly from the dissident group known as the New IRA appeared on a wall in Londonderry late Sunday, claiming it was responsible

BEIJING (AP) — China says it closely monitored the flight of a U.S. surveillance plane through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, accusing the U.S. of having “deliberately disrupted and undermined the regional situation.” The People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said Chinese forces organized to keep an eye on the passage of the P-8A Poseidon

By ALBERT AJI and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister has met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus and promised to deliver more aid to the quake-hit country. Sameh Shoukry is Egypt’s most senior official to visit Syria since 2011. His visit on Monday comes a day after Cairo’s

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Speed around a French village in the video game Grand Turismo and you might spot a Corvette behind you trying to catch your slipstream. The technique of using the draft of an opponent’s racecar to speed up and overtake them is one favored by skilled players of PlayStation’s realistic

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says a magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey causing some damaged buildings to collapse. Monday’s quake came three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region. A father and daughter were reported trapped beneath the rubble of one building. Turkey’s disaster management agency said that Monday’s earthquake was centered

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. and the European Union are poised to end years of wrangling and seal a deal to resolve their thorny post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to England on Monday for a meeting with Sunak. A joint

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is stressing the importance of legal challenges against “climate-wrecking corporations” like fossil-fuel producers. Guterres ratcheted up his call for the fight against climate change. The U.N. chief’s appeal opened the latest session of the Human Rights Council. It was part of an address

By MAJDI MOHAMMED and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Israel sent hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank on Monday, a day after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis and settlers rampaged through a Palestinian town, torching homes and vehicles in the worst such violence in decades. The responses

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A 37-year-old U.S.-Italian national and longtime left-wing political operative who worked on two presidential campaigns for former U.S. President Barack Obama has defied polls to become the first woman to head Italy’s opposition Democratic Party. Elly Schlein’s surprise victory over the popular governor of Emilia Romagna, Stefano

By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate has arrived at a Romanian appeals court in Bucharest to challenge a court’s decision last week to extend for a third time his detention by 30 days. The divisive social media influencer and former professional kickboxer is detained in Romania on

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will unveil France’s economic and military strategy in Africa for the coming years. Macron is expected to call for a more balanced partnership with African nations in a speech at the Elysee presidential palace on Monday. The French president will begin an