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By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Pivotal elections in Brazil and the United States will present an early test to Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and his promise to ease up on the platform’s policies on misinformation. Voters in both nations have already faced a torrent of misleading claims about candidates, issues and voting. That torrent

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As a Brazilian journalist living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-more effort rebutting ever-crazier rumors. There were claims that Argentina’s presidential palace had been invaded, that people had to leave keys in their cars’ ignitions so the government could use them at any

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Some 120,000 people paraded in the streets of Taipei despite the rainy weather in the city’s 20th annual Pride event celebrating the LGBTQ community Saturday. The Taiwan Pride Parade began in 2003 with just 700 participants gathering in a park in central Taipei. Most of them

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former presidential candidate who led a political party in Haiti has been shot to death in the capital. The slaying of Eric Jean Baptiste has stunned many in a country already facing a profound crisis. A party spokesman says Baptiste was killed late Friday along with his bodyguard. He was

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Two car bombs exploded Saturday at a busy junction in Somalia’s capital near key government offices, leaving “scores of civilian casualties,” police told state media. The attack came five years after a massive blast at the same location. The Somalia National News Agency cited national police

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Wes Moore could soon make history if elected Maryland’s first Black governor, and he’s not alone: Rep. Anthony Brown would be the state’s first Black attorney general. Aruna Miller, Moore’s running mate who immigrated from India, would be the first Asian-American elected statewide. Moore has led

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Some 120,000 people paraded in the streets of Taipei despite the rainy weather in the city’s 20th annual Pride event celebrating the LGBTQ community Saturday. The Taiwan Pride Parade began in 2003 with just 700 participants gathering in a park in central Taipei. Most of them

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say a shootout with militants in northwestern Pakistan killed two soldiers. Also on Saturday in Pakistan, counterterrorism officers arrested a suspect involved in the recent killing of a former top judge of the restive southwestern Baluchistan province. According to a military statement, the shootout took place in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By MARK SHERMAN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Once a bastion of segregation, the University of North Carolina now takes account of race to make up for its sordid history and to increase the number of Black students and other underrepresented minorities on campus. Its affirmative action program, using race

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss railway company will try to set a record for the world’s longest passenger train during a trip on one of the most spectacular tracks through the Alps. The Rhaetian Railway company plans to run the 1.9-kilometer-long (1.2-mile-long) train with 100 coaches and fours engines along the Albula/Bernina route from Preda

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried in a huge mudslide laden with rocks, trees and debris, officials said Saturday.

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops moved large numbers of sick and wounded comrades from hospitals in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, Ukrainian military officials reported Saturday as their forces fought to retake a province overrun by invading soldiers early in the war. Kremlin-installed authorities in the mostly Russian-occupied region previously

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry says that a 75-year-old from Pakistan who was the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been released and returned to his home country. The ministry says Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family on Saturday, after spending more than 17 years

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian media say the gunman who killed 15 people at a major Shiite holy site in southern Iran earlier this week has died. Meanwhile on Saturday, Tehran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard issued a new warning to Iranians joining the protests roiling the country. The attack on the shrine in Shiraz

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at age 93, the foundation that runs the Anne Frank House museum said. The Anne Frank Foundation paid tribute to Pick-Goslar, who is mentioned in Anne’s world-famous diary about her life in hiding