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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana’s capital city have arrested two people for a mass shooting that left 12 others wounded at a nightclub in January. Two 19-year-olds, Nikeal Franklin and Jy’Shaun Jackson, were arrested Friday, the Baton Rouge Police Department said. Franklin was charged with 12 counts of attempted first-degree murder while

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ATAREB, Syria (AP) — After years of war, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a massive earthquake are grappling with their new and worsening reality. Almost one week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and neighboring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Top Caribbean leaders are expected to debate Haiti’s spiraling chaos and its impact on the region during a meeting this week. Some are complaing some complain about a constant stream of migrants arriving on their shores as they flee poverty and worsening violence in Haiti. The

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It has been nearly two years since the United States began pressing Mexico over labor rights violations by using rapid dispute resolution methods contained in the U.S.-Mexico Canada free trade agreement. The administration of President Joe Biden has brought six such complaints and brags that, for

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the new president of Cyprus in a runoff election Sunday, pledging to revive stalemated reunification talks with the nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriots and to form a coalition government with women filling half of the Cabinet positions. With 100%

By JUSTIN SPIKE, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that killed over 33,000

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 19-year-old man with violent disorder and assaulting an emergency services worker over a protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England. Police said an initially peaceful protest outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, near Liverpool, turned violent Friday when some demonstrators threw projectiles including lit fireworks

MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have flooded the streets of Madrid to stage the largest protest yet against the regional government’s management of the capital city’s healthcare services. Over 250,000 people according to the central government railed in the city center. The protest was led by health worker associations and backed by

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Mars Wrigley in the June accident at the Elizabethtown M&M/Mars factory, saying the workers were

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The third installment in the “Magic Mike” series danced its way to the top of the box office charts this weekend with a James Cameron double header, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Titanic” (yes that “Titanic”), looming close behind. “ Magic Mike’s Last Dance ” earned $8.2 million

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 19-year-old man with violent disorder and assaulting an emergency services worker over a protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England. Police said an initially peaceful protest outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, near Liverpool, turned violent Friday when some demonstrators threw projectiles including lit fireworks

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Exit polls from the presidential election in ethnically divided Cyprus shows a former foreign minister leading a career diplomat by a tight margin in a runoff vote. According to Sunday’s exit poll by state broadcaster CyBC, Nikos Christodoulides, the ex-minister, garnered 50.5% to 53.5% against 46.5%

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Six days after earthquakes in Syria and Turkey killed tens of thousands, sorrow and disbelief are turning to anger and tension over a sense that there has been an ineffective, unfair and disproportionate response to the historic disaster. Many in Turkey express frustration that rescue operations

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — From Super Bowl opening night to the night before the big game, the party was on all week long. The frenzy was back in full force this year after COVID-19 restrictions limited the wild, zany atmosphere that surrounds the most-anticipated and most-hyped week on the

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered one of the handful of independent media broadcasters to shut down for publishing an article he said intentionally slandered his son in connection with the country’s relief assistance to earthquake victims in Turkey. The article published by VOD, which also owns a radio

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. Schumer, D-N.Y., told ABC’s “This Week” that he was briefed on Saturday night

By JUSTIN SPIKE and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors, including a pregnant woman and two small children, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings. The death toll

BEIJING (AP) — The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. The 7th Fleet based in Japan said Sunday that the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group and the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Dozens of leaders and senior officials from Arab and Islamic countries have condemned recent Israeli measures in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged between Israel and the Palestinians. The meeting in Cairo on Sunday was hosted by the Arab League and attended by