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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected challenges to the official results of the presidential election and upheld Deputy President William Ruto’s win. Ruto is expected to be sworn in on Sept. 13. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga had alleged irregularities in the otherwise peaceful Aug. 9 election

BEIJING (AP) — China has locked down 65 million citizens under tough COVID-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays. Most of the 21 million people in the southwestern city of Chengdu are confined to their apartments or residential complexes while in the eastern port city of Tianjin classes have ben moved

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan. The blast went off at the

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says weapons stocks in the bloc are running low as member countries funnel arms and ammunition to Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is urging the 27 member countries to coordinate their spending on new military materiel. Borrell said Monday that the arsenals of most EU

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Monday upheld a motion from Russian authorities to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that for years has been critical of the Kremlin, the latest move in a months-long crackdown on independent media, opposition activists and human rights groups. The ruling against Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s

BEIJING (AP) — China has locked down 65 million of its citizens under tough COVID-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays. Most of the 21 million people in the southwestern city of Chengdu are confined to their apartments or residential complexes, while in the eastern port city of Tianjin, classes have

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s health ministry says the death toll from a measles outbreak has risen to almost 700 children. Some are calling for the enactment of legislation to make vaccination mandatory in a country where anti-modern medicine religious sects hold sway on large swathes of the population of

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese official says the death toll from flash flooding since the start of the rainy season in May has reached 112. The spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defense said on Monday that at least 115 people have been injured across the country. He says the downpours also inundated around

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Oil prices are sagging amid fears of recessions across the globe. OPEC and allied countries are weighing what to do about that when they meet online Monday. High oil prices were a bonanza for countries like Saudi Arabia over the summer, but now they’re well

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The lawyer of a British man who was arrested in Dubai for allegedly masterminding a $1.7 billion tax scheme in Denmark has asked judges not to extradite him. Denmark wants hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah extradited from the United Arab Emirates, but Shah’s lawyer

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least four civilians were killed and seven others were wounded by Russian shelling in the past 24 hours across several regions of Ukraine, Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday. Most of the casualties were in the eastern Donetsk region, where three people were killed and four

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A blast went off outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday, killing two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian, a Russian state news agency and a local police official said. A higher death toll was expected, with conflicting reports saying between eight

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets sank Monday as Europe faced a new squeeze on Russian gas supplies. London and Frankfurt opened lower. Tokyo, Hong Kong and South Korea fell while Shanghai gained. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel while the euro edged lower. Markets were roiled

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Eight people are on trial in a special terrorism court in Paris. They are accused of helping a man who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in the southern French resort of Nice and killed 86 people. The attacker was shot dead by

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old militant in the occupied West Bank in clashes that broke out during an Israeli arrest raid. The military said he threw a firebomb at troops from close range and responded with live fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said the man

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say the number of people who died in an accident while climbing Eurasia’s tallest active volcano has risen to eight. A helicopter with a rescue team is on the way to the site of the accident. Russian media initially reported on Saturday that five climbers died while trying to ascend

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military body has released a list of rules and restrictions for foreigners wanting to enter Palestinian areas of the West Bank, extending its control of daily life and movement in and out of the occupied territory. COGAT, the Israeli body in charge of Palestinian civilian

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake has killed at least seven people, triggered landslides and shaken residents in a major city under lockdown in southwestern China. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted Luding county in Sichuan province at a shallow depth, which can potentially cause major damage. Sichuan is regularly hit by earthquakes, mainly in mountainous,