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By NICOLE WINFIELD, GANTRY MEILANA and HELENA ALVES Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican confirmed Thursday that it imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo in the past two years following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor in the 1990s. The Vatican spokesman said in a

By BHUMIKA SARASWATI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies. Previously, under Indian law, married women could have abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies, but single women were limited to 20 weeks.

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile toward its eastern waters. The launch on Thursday came hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris departed from South Korea, the last stop of a four-day Asian trip on which she emphasized a

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians will go to the polls for the fourth time in less than two years in a general election overshadowed this time by the war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and galloping inflation. Pollsters expect that voters’ fatigue and disillusionment with the political system will result

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian authorities say a man has died flooding in a northern Adriatic Sea port after the town was hit by a storm and torrential rainfall. Huge amounts of water drenched Rijeka on Wednesday evening, bursting into houses and submerging the town’s squares and streets. Officials said as much rain fell in

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police in Montenegro are raiding multiple locations in the county in search of suspected spies, officials said Thursday. Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic told members of his cabinet the raids, “aimed at protecting (Montenegro’s) national security” were prepared “in cooperation with our international partners.” Officials refused to provide more details of the

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police in Uvalde, Texas, say two people were killed and 10 others injured after a pickup truck crashed into two other vehicles. Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez says U.S. Border Patrol agents saw the truck speeding Wednesday night on a highway outside of Uvalde and began pursuing it. The police chief

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has passed a motion calling for the dismissal of the foreign minister over a series of alleged diplomatic missteps, including controversial remarks by President Yoon Suk Yeol caught on a hot mic in the United States. The motion isn’t legally

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital has acquitted the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case. Thursday’s acquittal of Maryam Nawaz in Islamabad comes four years after another anti-graft tribunal sentenced her to seven years in prison connected to the purchase of luxury apartments in London. Nawaz, who is

By NICOLE WINFIELD, GANTRY MEILANA and HELENA ALVES Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and Bishop Carlos

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — The Finnish government says it will significantly limit passenger traffic on Finland’s border with Russia, banning Russian citizens traveling with tourist visas from entering the Nordic country effective Friday. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told a news conference that the decision “aims to completely prevent Russian tourism to Finland and the related

MOSCOW (AP) — Three Russian cosmonauts returned safely from a mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov touched down softly on time at a designated site in the steppes of Kazakhstan about 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan. The

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police have fired warning shots in the air before detaining a driver of a van carrying 15 migrants after the Czech Republic and Austria renewed checks at their borders with Slovakia amid a renewed wave of migration. Czech police reported traffic delays, especially for trucks, after

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction across Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island, damaging a hospital from above and below and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain over a huge

By JON GAMBRELL and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia confirmed on Thursday it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged. Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony on

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — In a rare admission of sexual harassment in Japan’s military, its army chief has apologized to a former soldier for suffering caused by a group of servicemembers. Yoshihide Yoshida, head of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, says an internal investigation found evidence that several servicemen had been involved

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has failed to elect a president, just weeks before incumbent President Michel Aoun’s six-year term comes to an end. Over half of the crisis-hit country’s legislators cast blank ballots and some lawmakers shuffled out of the assembly hall, breaking the quorum. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shares in luxury automaker Porsche have risen on their first day of public trading. The maker of the 911 sports car made its market debut Thursday on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Parent company Volkswagen carried out an initial public offering that is one of the