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By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake has killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands. Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping some people, while scores of injuries were recorded

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say suspected separatist gunmen have killed at least eight police officers over the past three days in southeast Nigeria, raising concerns ahead of weekend presidential elections. Four officers were killed in an attack at a station in Anambra state Monday while authorities searched for suspects accused of killing four others

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, a top New Orleans session man, has died. Smith backed Little Richard and Lloyd Price among other early rock stars and with his own group made the party favorites “Don’t You Just Know It” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu.” Smith

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter (52-foot) -long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks the first stage of broader renovations for the 120-year-old salmon-colored palatial complex in downtown Cairo, opposite the capital’s famed Tahrir Square. Waziry Papyrus, the

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck parts of Turkey and Syria that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed around 45,000 people. Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and several people were injured in both countries, but there were

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited the Gulf nation of Oman on his first official visit since the deadly Feb. 6 quake. Oman is one of few Arab countries that kept normal relations with Damascus after Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 over its crackdown on Arab Spring

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president says the ex-Soviet nation will form a new territorial defense force amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine. President Alexander Lukashenko has cultivated close military ties with Russia, which used Belarusian territory to send troops into Ukraine nearly a year ago at the start of what the Kremlin calls its

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press The prosecution in the case of a fatal New Mexico film-set shooting made a stark turnaround Monday, dropping the possibility of a mandatory five-year sentence against Alec Baldwin, new court filings show. The actor-producer’s attorneys had earlier objected to the enhancement, saying it was unconstitutional because it was added after

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Italy have discussed military support for Ukraine and voiced agreement that the European Union should be made stronger politically while cutting down on bureaucracy. Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni — both right-wing politicians — said they were on the same page on

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus Monday as the university resumed normal operations, one week after a gunman shot and killed three students and injured five others. The 50,000-student university’s campus remained relatively quiet on the first day back,

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna says a man arrested Monday in the weekend killing of a Catholic auxiliary bishop is the husband of the victim’s housekeeper and had done work at his home. Luna says a SWAT team arrested Carlos Medina in

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies and family members of an opposition politician imprisoned in Russia say he’s been transferred to a penal colony in the northwest of the country and placed in restricted housing. Andrei Pivovarov, who was sentenced to four years in prison last year, was transferred from a

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man has been charged with participating in a Memphis shooting that left one person dead and 10 others injured. According to a police affidavit, 21-year-old Julius Michael Freeman of Memphis admitted to driving the shooter to and from the area where the gunman opened fire early Sunday and to handing

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has summoned Iran’s top diplomat in the U.K. after journalists based in the country were targeted for intimidation by Tehran. The Foreign Office said its Middle East director Vijay Rangarajan met with Iranian Chargé d’Affaires Mehdi Hosseini Matin to “make clear the U.K. will not tolerate threats to life and

NEW YORK (AP) — An alligator was found in a chilly New York City lake on Sunday, far from the subtropical and tropical climates where such creatures thrive. The four-foot reptile was pulled from Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn around 8:30 a.m. and taken to an animal care center and then the Bronx Zoo for

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a watered-down statement strongly opposing Israel’s continued construction and expansion of settlements. The council’s agreement Monday followed high-stakes negotiations by the Biden administration that succeeded in derailing a legally binding resolution that would have condemned and demanded a

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Police in Illinois say three people have died and three more were hurt after a shooting on a Chicago interstate highway. Illinois State Police said Monday that the shooting occurred Sunday at around 10:30 p.m. on the I-57 expressway near 111th Street in the South

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Several Anglican bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific say they no longer recognize Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as their leader. The announcement deepens a rift within the global Anglican Communion over gay marriage. Some bishops who belong to the Global South Fellowship of