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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of the Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea. Putin told an energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday that the U.S. was likely behind the explosions that ripped through both links of

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Bosnia-Herzegovina has moved a small step closer to the European Union. The EU’s executive is advising member states to grant it candidate member status despite continuing criticism of the way the Balkan nation is run. The advice had been hotly anticipated in ethnically-divided Bosnia, which is lagging

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three Philadelphia police officers were shot and wounded and a suspect was killed when a SWAT team attempted to serve a homicide warrant at a city home. Police did not release the name of the 19-year-old man who was killed. Police said he tried to exit the rear of the house and

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl has grown a little stronger off Mexico’s southern Gulf coast and it’s expected to approach land by the weekend without gaining  hurricane strength. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Karl had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph Wednesday morning. It was centered about 185 miles (300 kilometers) north-northeast

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois police chief says two police officers and a suspect were shot during a traffic stop in the city of Decatur. Decatur Police Chief Shane Brandel says shots were fired after the officers made a traffic stop about 12:30 a.m. CDT Wednesday. The suspect and the two Decatur officers

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The jurors who will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to death or life without parole are expected to begin their deliberations Wednesday, concluding a three-month trial. Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to the murders of 14 students and three staff

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president is scrambling to quell an outcry over his comments appearing to make light of revelations that more than 400 people were victims of child sex abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church. A lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s first space tourist wants to go back — only this time, he’s signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship. For Dennis Tito, 82, it’s a chance to relive the joy of his trip to the International Space

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Medicare open enrollment starts soon, but 7 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries say they don’t compare Medicare plans during this period, which stretches from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. That’s not great, since Medicare Advantage plans — which operate much like the private insurance you may have had through an employer

BERLIN (AP) — A senior German state official has announced his resignation amid questions over his management of deadly floods that hit his region last year. The interior minister of the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate said Wednesday he was “taking the political responsibility for mistakes that were made in my area of responsibility.” More than

PARIS (AP) — The French government has moved to requisition workers operating petrol depots of ExxonMobil’s French branch Esso in an attempt to ensure that service stations around the country are supplied with badly needed fuel amid an ongoing strike. France’s Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne on Wednesday asked prefects at the National Assembly to launch

By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new liquefied natural gas project off Africa’s western coast may only be 80% complete, but already the prospect of a new energy supplier has drawn visits from the leaders of Poland and Germany. The initial field near Senegal and Mauritania’s coastlines is expected to contain

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The leader of Sweden’s third largest party — the center-right Moderates — says he needs more time in his attempt to form a government with other center-right parties and has been granted a two-day extension. Ulf Kristersson, head of the Moderates, said “some details” still needed to be ironed out. It was

ROME (AP) — Police in Italy say an Eritrean fugitive is being extradited to Italy to face human trafficking charges after he was picked up at Ethiopia’s airport trying to board a flight for Australia.  The man is accused of helping run a human smuggling operation that funneled people from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan to

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mixed Wednesday as traders braced for updates on inflation, retail sales and corporate earnings. The British pound weakened against the U.S. dollar after the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, confirmed the bank will not extend beyond Friday an emergency debt-buying