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By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey began Saturday as officials raised the death toll to at least 40 people. Desperate relatives had waited all night in the cold outside the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise’s (TTK) mine

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Beside an abandoned Russian military camp in eastern Ukraine, the body of a man lay decomposing in the grass — a civilian who had fallen victim to a tripwire land mine set by retreating Russian forces. Nearby, a group of Ukrainian deminers with the country’s territorial

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — On the eve of the opening of a key Chinese Communist Party congress, party leader, head of state and commander of the armed forces Xi Jinping has given no indication of stepping away from power or anointing a successor. Xi had given no earlier signs that he

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Ukrainian minesweepers with the country’s territorial defense forces is working to clear an area in the Kharkiv region of dozens of deadly mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance. The brigade is pushing to restore a semblance of safety to the cities, towns and

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Connecticut jury’s ruling this week ordering Alex Jones to pay $965 million to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims he maligned was heartening for people disgusted by the muck of disinformation. Just don’t expect it to make conspiracy theories go away. The appetite for

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In 2018, Brian Kemp spent much of his campaign for Georgia governor in Stacey Abrams’ shadow as the Democratic Party star tried to become the nation’s first Black female governor. In the end, he won narrowly anyway. Then, halfway through his term, the Republican governor became the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl weakened into a tropical depression while nearing Mexico’s southern Gulf shore, though forecasters said its heavy rain could still cause problems on the easily flooded stretch of coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm would move near land during Saturday and likely dissipate by early Sunday.

By TERRY SPENCER, JESSICA GRESKO and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It wasn’t long ago that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz would have been looking at a near-certain death sentence for murdering 17 people in Parkland, even if his jury could not unanimously agree on his fate. Until 2016, Florida law

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl was downgraded to a tropical storm late Friday as it drifted near an easily flooded stretch of Mexico’s southern Gulf coast. Forecasters warned the danger of flooding remained in the swampy, low-lying region Karl had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) late Friday, the U.S. National

By MAJDI MOHAMMED Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s military has carried out an arrest raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and killed two Palestinians in gun battles. The fighting erupted Friday in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, a frequent flash point for

By HENG SINITH Associated Press KOH CHAMROEUN, Cambodia (AP) — Eleven students in southern Cambodia who were crossing a river have died after the boat they were on capsized. Police said four people — two students and two of the boat’s crew — were rescued following the accident Thursday night on the Mekong River southeast

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ruled that Mel Gibson can testify about what he learned from one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers. The 66-year-old actor and director Gibson was one of many trial witnesses whose identities were revealed in court Friday. Weinstein is accused of sexual battery against

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is holding its twice-a-decade national congress starting Sunday, at which Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term as the uncontested head of the party, government and military of the world’s second-largest economy. The proceedings surrounding the event are shrouded in secrecy, as is typical in

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A series of aftershocks are following a magnitude 5.0 earthquake on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano. Scientists say the volcano is in a state of unrest, but it’s not showing any imminent signs of eruption. A series of smaller earthquakes followed Friday’s quake near the Big Island’s

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, on Friday asked the FBI and IRS to look into an election integrity group that claimed to have uncovered widespread fraud in the 2020 election but never provided evidence. True the Vote, a nonprofit organization, has raised “considerable sums of

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In the days since Dane Partridge was fatally wounded while serving as a volunteer soldier in Ukraine, his sister has found moments of comfort in surprising places: First, a misplaced baseball cap discovered in her laundry room, then in a photo of a battered pickup truck

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama, who twice won Wisconsin by large margins, is coming to the battleground state in the final days of the campaign to give a boost to the Democratic governor and challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson. Obama plans to hold an early vote event on Oct. 29