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By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have rejected its demand for Serbian security forces be allowed to return to the breakaway province amid ongoing tensions. Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday that KFOR peacekeepers, who deployed in Kosovo in 1999 after the NATO alliance’s bombing forced

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China say 19 people have died and 20 are injured in a traffic accident at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday travel rush. The accident occurred outside the city of Nanchang in Jiangxi province. The cause is under investigation but appeared to involve a truck running into

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have broken up a meeting by Palestinian parents in east Jerusalem about their children’s education, saying it was unlawfully funded by the Palestinian Authority. The operation Saturday came just days after Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist with a long record of anti-Arab rhetoric and stunts began his

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The public can now visit the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in the grottoes under St. Peter’s Basilica. The pontiff was buried on Jan. 5 immediately following a funeral in St. Peter’s Square. Benedict’s tomb lies in the grottoes under the basilica’s main floor. The Vatican

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marks its 111th anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912. President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was re-elected as the ANC party leader at a national conference in December last year,

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack with deadly chemicals, officials said Sunday. Police and prosecutors said the man and another person were detained overnight in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, northwest of Dortmund. In a joint statement they said

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Prominent U.S. lawyer says he cannot defend sweeping judicial reforms planned by Israel’s new government. Alan Dershowitz, long a staunch defender of Israel’s policies on the international stage, says Sunday the reforms pose a threat to civil liberties and minority rights in Israel. The

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of Catholic devotees have joined a night procession through downtown Manila to venerate a centuries-old black statue of Jesus Christ, which was not paraded to discourage an even larger crowd amid lingering fears of COVID-19. The more than 80,000 devotees who church

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested an unruly airline passenger following a complaint by a woman aboard an Air India flight from New York that he urinated on her in business class. Police spokesperson Suman Nalva said Sunday the passenger, Shankar Mishra, was picked up by police in

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China say 17 people have died and 22 were injured in a traffic accident at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday travel rush. The accident occurred outside the city of Nanchang in Jiangxi province. The cause is under investigation. Such accidents, often caused by fatigued drivers or

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The past year has been difficult for startups everywhere, but running a company in Ukraine during the Russian invasion comes with a whole different set of challenges. Clinical psychologist Ivan Osadchyy brought his Knopka connected medical device to this year’s CES show in Las Vegas in

By ADRIANA MORGA, JAMES BROOKS and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show. Innovations include a bartending robot making boba tea and a digital device from L’Oreal to quickly paint on eyebrow makeup. Meanwhile, BMW is betting

BEIJING (AP) — After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in line following the reopening Sunday of border crossing points. The ability of residents of the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city to cross over is one of the most visible signs

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page

BEIJING (AP) — After two years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure he was among the first to cross the border following the reopening of crossing points Sunday. The ability of residents of the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city to cross over is one of the most

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors described Damar Hamlin’s neurological function as “excellent” Saturday, as the Buffalo Bills safety continued making progress in his recovery after having to be resuscitated on the field in a game at Cincinnati on Monday. In providing their daily update on Hamlin, the Bills

By ANDRES LEIGHTON and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Several hundred people marched through the streets of El Paso on Saturday afternoon, and when they arrived at a group of migrants huddling outside a church, they sang to them “no estan solos” — “you are not alone.” Around 300 migrants have