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By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials say more than 100 people are dead or missing after a boat accident earlier this week on the Congo River in the country’s northwest. Local authorities and survivors say the tragedy took place near the town of Bumba in the northwestern province of Mongala, where

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been convicted on charges alleging that he tried to help the Taliban fight American forces. Delowar Mohammed Hossain was convicted late Friday in Manhattan federal court on charges that he tried to provide material support for terrorism and tried to contribute funds, goods and services

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The group behind the wave of houses decorated to look like floats during this year’s pandemic-curtailed Mardi Gras is continuing the tradition in 2022 while the mayor weighs whether to allow parades during the upcoming Carnival season. The Krewe of House Floats announced Friday that it would return next year. Mardi

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian air force plane crashed in the Amazon jungle in northeast Bolivia on Saturday, killing all six people on board. Police say two military pilots and four civilian passengers died in the crash in the Beni region. The plane caught fire after crashing in thick vegetation, and residents from

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping says reunification with Taiwan will happen peacefully, despite a recent ratcheting up of military threats against the self-governing island. Xi said Saturday that the reunification of mainland China with Taiwan “must be realized, and will definitely be realized.” He added that reunification

ALAMO, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the early Saturday death of a Georgia police officer who was shot in the line of duty in Wheeler County. Few details have been released but the GBI said the victim is an officer from the Alamo Police Department. GBI spokeswoman Natalie Ammons confirmed

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he will step down in a bid to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors’ announcement that he is a target of a corruption investigation. The 35-year-old Kurz said Saturday he has proposed that Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg replace him. Kurz himself

MOSCOW (AP) — Rescue workers combing through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the Georgian city of Batumi have pulled out a man still alive more than a full day later. Nine people are known to have died when a section of the five-story building collapsed Friday in the country’s second-largest city. The

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man exonerated of a 1983 rape and murder after serving 37 years in prison is suing over his wrongful conviction in which a questionable bite mark was critical evidence. Robert DuBoise, 56, was freed from prison in August 2020 after untested

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s centrist party has narrowly lost the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billionaire’s reign in power. With all the votes counted, the Czech Statistics Office said Together, a liberal-conservative three-party coalition, captured 27.8% of

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Residents of the eastern Congolese city of Beni expressed concern after receiving the news that a new case of Ebola was confirmed only five months since the country declared an end to the last outbreak that killed six people in the region. Congo’s Health Ministry

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have marched down Rome’s Via Veneto and other main streets to protest a government rule requiring COVID-19 vaccines or negative tests for workers to enter their offices. The requirement takes effect on Oct. 15 and applies to public and private workplaces. The protesters first

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — As a new Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov has downplфyed the buzz around his name. The award isn’t for him, he says, but for all of the staff at Novaya Gazeta, the independent Russian newspaper noted for investigations of official corruption, human rights

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has visited a vast open-pit coal mine in Germany and a village that is to be bulldozed to make way for its expansion. She described the destruction as “really disturbing.” Saturday’s visit by Nakate and other young activists comes a few weeks before U.N. climate talks

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A new river of lava has belched out from the La Palma volcano, spreading more destruction on the Atlantic Ocean island where molten rock streams have already engulfed over 1,000 buildings. The partial collapse of the volcanic cone overnight sent a new lava stream Saturday heading toward

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston police sergeant seen on body camera footage bragging about striking protesters with his car during demonstrations over George Floyd’s killing has been ordered to serve an unpaid suspension of at least eight days. A police spokesperson said an internal investigation concluded that Clifton McHale’s statements were “unbecoming of a police

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state electricity company says the country’s two main power plants were forced to shut down after running out of fuel. That leaves crisis-hit Lebanon with no government-produced power. The country is dependent on fuel imports but erratic power supplies have put hospitals and essential services

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada this week became one of the last states to include rapid antigen tests in its coronavirus tallies. Experts say the change could provide a fuller picture of the pandemic but also upend metrics used to gauge how the virus is spreading.

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Partial results from Czech Republic’s parliamentary election are showing the centrist ANO (YES) movement led by populist billionaire Andrej Babis in the lead with 30.1% of the vote. Two coalitions created by five parties in efforts to oust the populist prime minister from power followed. A center-right

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Races for local school board seats have emerged as intense political battlegrounds in the upcoming Nov. 2 elections across the U.S. Parental protests that started during COVID-19 lockdowns are evolving into full-fledged board takeover campaigns. National conservative groups offering training academies for