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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian military forces have shelled the center of Kherson, the major city that Russian soldiers retreated from last month in one of Moscow’s biggest battlefield setback in Ukraine. Three people were wounded in the attacks, according to a Ukrainian official. The southern city and its surrounding region have come under frequent

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz became the latest journalist to be banned from Twitter, following a wave of suspensions by CEO Elon Musk. Lorenz said she and another Post technology reporter, Drew Harwell, were researching an article concerning Musk. She had tried to communicate with the billionaire during

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden told Democrats his preference for reordering the presidential primary calendar, states began balking. Officials in Iowa, the leadoff voting state for 40 years, noted a state law mandating that its caucuses take place at least eight days before any other nominating

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines woke up ready to watch the national team play for its third World Cup title amid a national feeling of unity and joy that is rare for a country that has been engulfed in an economic crisis for years and has one of the

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas. Ambulance crews are due to strike on Wednesday, joining nurses, railway staff, passport officers

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties. Speaking to the Spanish newspaper ABC, Francis said he gave the note to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who then was

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A local official in Afghanistan says a fuel tanker explosion in a tunnel has killed at least 19 people and injured 32. The Salang Tunnel is around 80 miles north of the capital, Kabul, and links the country’s north and south. A spokesman for Parwan province said Sunday that survivors remain

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles with a potential range of striking Japan on Sunday, in a possible protest of Tokyo’s adoption of a new security strategy to push for more offensive footing against North Korea and China. The launches came two days

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO & SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. Eastern Congo’s M23 rebels had attacked her village, killing scores of civilians. She and others fled for their lives, she said. “I lost several friends,” said Mathe speaking to

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — When about 100 Russian troops rolled into Kherson’s Lilac Park on the morning of March 1, Oleh Shornik was one of about 20 lightly armed Ukrainian volunteers who didn’t stand a chance against them. Ukraine’s military was nowhere to be seen, and Russian troops in armored

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Days before the 38-year-old Syrian Kurd was to begin the journey,

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police officer says a police station in volatile northwestern Pakistan came under an attack by suspected militants, leaving four officers dead and another four critically wounded. Police said militants used hand and rocket-propelled grenades, as well as automatic firearms in the attack early Sunday

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city on the U.S. border with

By FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press QUINUA, Peru (AP) — This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century. But on Saturday, the streets of Quinua were overrun by weeping residents commemorating a far more senseless loss: the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a pair of ballistic missiles on Sunday toward its eastern waters, its first weapons test in a month and coming two days after it claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Vote counting has finished in Fiji’s general election but there is no clear winner, and various political parties are now negotiating to form a coalition government. The election had pitted two former coup leaders against each other. Sitiveni Rabuka, who led a coup back in

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and Japanese officials say North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast. South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff said the launch occurred Sunday morning but gave no further details. The Japanese Prime Minister’s Office also confirmed the launch. The firing came three days