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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials say at least one person was feared dead and dozens injured after about 40 vehicles collided on an icy highway near capital Seoul. Officials at the northern Gyeonggi Province fire department say the number of injuries could grow as rescue workers continue to respond to the accident

By JULIE WATSON and DOUG GLASS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The record rainfall in California has soaked its steep hillsides, causing hundreds of landslides and heightening the threat to communities. So far the state has not seen another tragedy like the one in 2018 when mudslides roared through Montecito, killing 23 people and

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is launching its first anti-polio campaign of the year, targeting more than 44 million children under the age of five. It is one of two countries in the world where polio continues to threaten the health and well-being of children. Polio affects the nervous system of children and ultimately leads to

MADRID (AP) — Several thousand health workers have returned to the streets of Spain’s capital to protest what they claim is the dismantling of Madrid’s public health care system by its conservative regional government. The marchers clamored on Sunday against staff shortages and criticized what they consider the favoritism shown by regional authorities toward private

British police say two children and four women were injured in a drive-by shooting in central London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called on Saturday afternoon to a church in the Euston area where a private memorial service was taking place. Police believe gunmen fired shotgun pellets from a moving car outside the church.

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern city of Dnipro rose to 23 Sunday, the local government reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble. Emergency crews worked through the frigid night

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden is marking Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church that aims to celebrate the civil rights leader’s legacy while reviving the Biden administration’s call for sweeping voting rights legislation. Biden’s failure to win passage of a

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and GARY FIELDS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military

By UPENDRA MAN SINGH, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANISH BHATTARAI Associated Press POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority. A regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara Sunday,

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a gas leak explosion in southwest Pakistan has killed a family of six, including four children. Temperatures in the city of Quetta, Balochistan province, can drop to as low as minus 7 degrees Celsius (19 Fahrenheit) at night. Most households rely on gas cylinders for warmth because they don’t

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police say a former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard were shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul. She was among the few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. It is the first time a lawmaker from the

By UPENDRA MAN SINGH and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An official in Nepal says 60 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara. Tek Bahadur K. C., a senior

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan authorities say specialist teams have carried out “controlled detonations” of explosives that were discovered in parts of rocket debris found in a village near the country’s border with Ukraine. Moldova’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement that an on-site investigation

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.N. says comments from Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled central bank about cash shipments for humanitarian work are “misleading and unhelpful.” The global body has been sending funds to the war-torn country in cash because of banking disruptions since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The U.N. responded late Saturday to a tweet

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — When most people think of “carpaccio,” they think of the thinly sliced raw beef appetizer made famous by Venice’s iconic Harry’s Bar. Few people know that the dish is named for a lesser-known Venetian, the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio, because of the intense red hues he

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Enough was enough. For 13 years, extremists with al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate had controlled Mohamud Adow’s village in central Somalia, imposing harsh ideology and arresting local teachers and traditional leaders. Then, word came that Somali forces in a surprising national offensive had expelled the fighters from

By UPENDRA MAN SINGH and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A regional passenger plane with 72 people on board crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 32, an official said. Rescuers scoured the crash