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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — More people in Nigeria have cast ballots even though voting in the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections had been supposed to end on Saturday. Election observers said votes were cast in Benue, Adamawa and Bayelsa states even as the counting of ballots ballots was underway Sunday

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press PARKER, Colo (AP) — In a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become chair of their beleaguered party: “There’s no way a jury of 12

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press VUHLEDAR, Ukraine (AP) — The murky water oh so slowly trickles from the filthy drainpipe into her grimy container — the ticking seconds ramping up the risk that Emilia Budskaya could lose life or limb to Russian artillery strikes torturing her front-line town in eastern Ukraine. Gaping

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is accustomed to increased attention in the years leading up to presidential elections, with the state hosting the South’s first voting contests for several of the last cycles. But even by those standards, 2024 feels different. Democrats elevated South Carolina to the top of

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A delegation of senior Mideast lawmakers is in Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad on bringing his country back into the fold of the Arab world. Sunday’s visit follows a mini-summit in Baghdad the previous day that affirmed the Arab League’s intentions of having Syria rejoin

BERLIN (AP) — Police say three Hungarians have died after the car they were in collided with a bus on a snowy Alpine pass in Austria. Police said the 25-year-old driver appeared to have lost control of his car on the snow-covered road near Leogang, in central Austria, on Saturday. His 29- and 36-year-old passengers

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman seriously wounded two people when he opened fire at an Israeli car in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, casting a shadow on a high-level meeting between Palestinian and Israeli delegations meant to reduce surging violence ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian president’s office says a high-level Palestinian delegation will meet with top Israeli officials in Jordan. The meeting on Sunday is an attempt to reduce surging tensions in the region ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Israel said the prime minister’s national security adviser

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s currency has fallen to a new record low, plunging to 600,000 to the dollar for the first time. The effects of nationwide anti-government protests and the breakdown of the 2015 nuclear deal continued to roil the economy. Iranians have formed long lines in

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Egypt’s parliament speaker is heading a Mideast delegation on a visit to Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad. Sunday’s visit follows a mini-summit in Baghdad the previous day that affirmed the Arab League’s intentions of bringing Syria back into the region’s fold. Speaker Hanafy el-Gebaly is

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will help kick off the latest and longest-ever session of the U.N.’s top human rights body on Monday, with Iran’s foreign minister, a senior Russian envoy, and the top diplomats of France and Germany among scores of leaders set to take part. The

ROME (AP) — Authorities say the Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after a wooden migrant boat broke apart in rough seas near the southern coast of Italy’s mainland. State TV quoted the local prefect’s office as saying that by late morning 33 bodies had been recovered and 58 people

HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model, days after her body parts were found in a refrigerator. Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice,

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say a bus has overturned in the west of the country, killing one person and injuring several. The accident happened shortly before midnight on Saturday. The bus with Albanian license plates slid to the side of the road, hit the road barrier and overturned. The bus was carrying nine

ROME (AP) — Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy. Italian state radio says the coast guard has recovered about 30 bodies in rough waters in the Ionian Sea off Calabria. A spokesperson for firefighters, whose rescue boats were

ROME (AP) — Italian state radio says the coast guard has recovered about 30 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas off the southern coast of Italy’s mainland. Quoting unidentified port authorities near the coastal town of Crotone, in Calabria, RAI state radio said the ship was carrying more than 100 migrants

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tom Cruise was honored for his nearly three decades of work as a producer, and “ Everything Everywhere All at Once ” solidified its status as the frontrunner for the best picture Oscar by taking the top prize at Saturday night’s Producers Guild of

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says that an Australian-based archaeologist and two Papua New Guinea nationals have been released from captivity after being taken hostage by an armed group in a remote part of Papua New Guinea several days ago. The academic, Bryce Barker, and the other hostages were reportedly held