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KARACHI (AP) — A Pakistani lawyer says a court in the southern port city of Karachi has acquitted a retired senior police officer and 17 others, mostly policemen still serving on the force, in the 2018 killing of a 27-year-old aspiring model. The young man was shot and killed during what police at the time

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow was willing to negotiate with Ukraine in the early months of the war but the United States and other Western nations advised Kyiv against it. Lavrov’s remarks on a visit to South Africa Monday were similar to claims

By AMY TAXIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations, slayings that sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities and cast a shadow over festivities nationwide.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A snow storm packing strong winds has wreaked traffic chaos on a key highway in Slovenia and has left parts of the country temporarily without electricity. Officials said Monday the late Sunday snowfall caused over a dozen traffic accidents overnight. Fallen trees blocked local roads while also downing power lines, including

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The accident investigation boards of Estonia, Finland and Sweden say there is no indication that there was a collision or an explosion on a ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea 28 years ago in one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime maritime disasters. The boards on

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to impose sanctions on several more Iranian officials suspected of playing a role in the crackdown on protesters. But the bloc will not add the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard to the EU’s terror group blacklist. The EU has already imposed three rounds

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer When Mark Winternheimer’s 12-year-old tabby cat was diagnosed with diabetes last year, the treatment was daunting: twice-daily injections of insulin, an implanted monitor and frequent visits to the vet. Despite their qualms, Winternheimer and his wife, Courtnee, of New Albany, Indiana, learned to give Oliver his shots. “For us,

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to impose sanctions on several more Iranian officials suspected of playing a role in the crackdown on protesters. But the bloc will not add the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to the EU’s terror group blacklist. The EU has already imposed three

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an investigation into allegations the chairman of the governing Conservative Party settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury. It’s one of multiple stories about secret loans and unpaid taxes causing discomfort for

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will ask Germany for permission to send some of the Polish army’s Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Monday, as he pushes Europe to send more military hardware to Kyiv amid complaints that Germany is being too slow in helping to

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government is presenting a bill on Monday that foresees broad changes to the pension system that will notably push back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. Unions aren’t happy, and more than 1 million people took to the streets last week to reject

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it’s expelling Estonia’s ambassador and the country’s diplomatic mission will be headed by a charge d’affaires. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that Estonian Ambassador Margus Laidre was ordered to leave the country by Feb. 7. The statement said that Estonia’s diplomatic representation from now on will be downgraded to

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were higher Monday in Europe and in Asia, where most markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher, to 15,058.49 while the CAC 40 in Paris also gained 0.1% to 7,002.30. Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.2% to 7,786.30. The

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The trial of a former leader of the Hells Angels in Europe is set to start in Madrid. German national Frank Hanebuth is being tried alongside 46 alleged collaborators for running a chapter of the motorcycle club on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca that was allegedly

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Much of Pakistan was left without power for several hours on Monday morning as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired. The outage spread panic and raised questions about the cash-strapped government’s handling of the country’s economic crisis. Electricity was turned off during low usage hours overnight

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has replaced the governor of the country’s Central Bank following a weekslong plunge of the Iraqi dinar. Iraq’s state news agency reported that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made the move on Monday after the governor, Mustafa Ghaleb Mukheef, told him he no longer wishes to stay in the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II. He pledged Monday to push a military buildup under a newly adopted security strategy as well as tackle rapidly declining births. Kishida’s government in December adopted