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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hollywood stars and U.K. royalty converged on London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday for the British Academy Film Awards, where German-language antiwar drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” leads the pack of nominees. The visceral depiction of life and death in the World War I trenches

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity and threatened additional powerful steps over upcoming military drills between the United States and South Korea. The United States responded by flying long-range supersonic bombers

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian President Kais Saied has accused Europe’s top trade union official of interfering with the North African country’s “internal affairs” and ordered her to leave the country within 24 hours. Esther Lynch, the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation was in Tunisia over the weekend in solidarity with the

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative tilt on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has given Republicans victories in high-stakes cases in recent years, from voting restrictions to gerrymandered legislative districts. Voters now have a chance to tip that balance toward the left, with implications for abortion rights and perhaps the outcome

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz is still haunted by what he witnessed last Monday night, when a gunman entered his classroom in Berkey Hall, killing two of his students in what he describes as “12 minutes of terror.” “Those images haunt me. The images of

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a  closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday. The family of Nohemi Gonzalez claims that YouTube’s recommendations helped

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One year ago, President Joe Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine. As many in the West and even in Ukraine doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions, the White House was adamant: War was coming and

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Sunday they will escort back to Italy an Italian-Australian fugitive who was arrested on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali after seven years on the run in connection with drug trafficking and organized crime. Antonio Strangio, 32, appeared on Interpol’s “red notice” list when

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow’s nights display few signs of a nation at war. Cheerful crowds packed restaurants and bars in the Sretenka neighborhood on a recent Saturday night, watched by officers marked as “tourist police.” Nearby, a top-hatted guide led about 40 sightseers to a 300-year-old church. There’s only

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Southern California has died of a gunshot wound. That’s according to officials and media reports. The Los Angeles Times reports that Bishop David O’Connell was found dead in Hacienda Heights around 1 p.m. Saturday. According to information from the Sheriff’s Department, homicide detectives responded to “a

By DAVID A. LIEB and KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press LOWRY CITY, Mo. (AP) — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a residential neighborhood in central Damascus. News agency SANA reports that at least five people were killed and 15 wounded in the early Sunday attack. Loud explosions were heard over the capital around 12:30 a.m. local time and

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials in Pennsylvania say a Temple University police officer has been fatally shot near campus in Philadelphia while chasing a robbery suspect. Temple says in a statement that the alleged robbery took place at a nearby convenience store, and the officer was pronounced dead at the university hospital Saturday. The statement says

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlement activity this week at the United Nations that threatens to overshadow and perhaps derail what the U.S. hopes will be a solid five days of focus on condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine. Secretary

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Rahm could hear the cheers from all over Riviera, the sound typically associated with someone making a charge. Except they came from the opposite side of the course that featured players too far away from the lead. What they meant was not nearly as

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party has elected Kristina Karamo to be its next chair during a convention in Lansing. Karamo is a community college professor who lost her race for secretary of state after mounting a campaign filled with election conspiracies. She will lead the party through