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By DIANE JEANTET and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro is feeding concern about Brazil’s electronic voting system with the election just a month off. He says the machines are prone to fraud, though he’s acknowledged that hasn’t been proved and Brazil’s electoral authority says the system has been

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni officials say suspected al-Qaida militants have attacked a security post in the country’s south, killing at least 27. The incident sparked clashes that killed at least eight troops and six militants. The early morning attack took place in the district of Ahwar in the southern province

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages. At the top

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening mixed on Wall Street as the market gets a holiday-shortened week off to a muted start. The S&P 500 was just barely in the green in the early going Tuesday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was wavering between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was also

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with stealing a plane that he didn’t know how to land will remain behind bars, denied bond by a judge who took a dim view of his lawyer’s promise that he wouldn’t take off again. Airport worker Cory Wayne Patterson allegedly stole the plane on Saturday after posting

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog has addressed Germany’s parliament about atrocities committed during the Third Reich. At the same time, he used his speech Tuesday at the Bundestag to praise the close and friendly relations that have emerged between the two countries since the end of the Holocaust.

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Activists and relatives have lost contact with a fishing boat carrying some 60 Lebanese and Syrian migrants adrift near the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. A passenger’s relative and Alarm Phone, an activist networks, said Tuesday that they lost touch with the vessel overnight. The

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Kay lashed Mexico’s Pacific coast with rain Tuesday as it moved northward toward the Baja California Peninsula. Kay’s maximum sustained winds rose to 85 mph (140 kph), with forecasters saying it could brush the peninsula as a hurricane this week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Kay was

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has passed a law that gives hundreds of thousands of domestic cleaners and carers the right to unemployment benefits and other job protection measures for the first time. Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said the law would benefit more than 370,000 people, 95% of whom are women. She said the

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six decades ago. Now, with teaching about race in America more complicated than it’s ever been, she’s authored

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is is blocking the buyout of cancer-screening company GRAIL by biotech giant Illumina. It’s a rare move by European antitrust regulators against two U.S. companies. Illumina is a major supplier of next-generation sequencing systems for genetic and genomic analysis. GRAIL is a health company developing blood tests to try

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni officials say suspected al-Qaida militants have attacked a security post in the country’s south, killing 14. The incident sparked clashes that killed at least eight troops and six militants. The early morning attack took place in the district of Ahwar in the southern province of Abyan.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets are poised to open higher Tuesday after three straight down weeks with anxiety high over the potential for additional interest rate hikes. On Wall Street, futures for the S&P 500 index rose 0.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% after a three-day holiday weekend. London was modestly

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, governors around the country vowed to take steps to ensure their students would be kept safe. Months later, as students return to classrooms, money has begun to flow for school security upgrades, training and other

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan arrived in the western German city of Duesseldorf on Tuesday where they promoted the Invictus Games, a competition for wounded, injured and ill service personnel and veterans. The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were welcomed by the mayor and hundreds

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years on Tuesday dumped a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroyed roads and fell power lines, but the death toll of three could have been higher if not for proactive evacuations and closures of schools, officials

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The European commissioner for energy says the EU’s next steps for addressing the continent’s worsening energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are expected to be unveiled next week. Many European countries have tightened their belts as energy costs soar. Russia’s state-run energy company has

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it is opening an independent investigation after a man was shot dead in London after a police chase. The Metropolitan Police said armed officers pursued a “suspect vehicle” in south London on Monday evening. They ended the chase by making “tactical contact” — or deliberately colliding with a

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fears grew Tuesday for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as shelling around it continued, a day after the facility was again knocked off Ukraine’s electricity grid and put in the precarious position of relying on its own power to run safety systems. Repeated warnings from world

MOSCOW (AP) — An array of Russian rabbis has called for an end to the fighting in Ukraine and expressed concern about the conflict creating tension for Jews in Russia. The Monday gathering of rabbis was organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, one of the country’s two largest Jewish organizations. A statement