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By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan say nearly 8,000 people were detained by police during protests that descended into violence last week and marked the worst unrest the former Soviet nation has faced since gaining independence 30 years ago. Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry reported Monday that 7,939 people have been detained

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Isla Fisher’s character in the new genre-bending series “Wolf Like Me” is a romantic catch. Kind of. She speaks four languages, makes cheese and pottery and is good at close-up magic. On the other hand, she can be distant and absolutely beastly. Oh, that reminds

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military leaders are denouncing new economic sanctions imposed by a regional bloc after the junta pushed back elections by four more years. The new measures announced Sunday include the immediate freezing of Mali’s assets held in the regional central bank. Air and land borders with

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is blaming the collapse of a shipyard business on its Malaysia-based owner Genting Group, saying the conglomerate refused to contribute to a government bailout plan. The MV Werften shipyard in northeastern Germany filed for bankruptcy protection Monday after getting into financial difficulties over the construction of a massive cruise liner. The

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body-camera video shows a harrowing rescue in California, where a small plane crashed on railroad tracks shortly after takeoff from a suburban Los Angeles airfield. The Cessna crashed Sunday afternoon just blocks from a police station. Four officers disentangled the bloodied pilot from the cockpit and dragged him away moments

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken a step to reorganize the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office. He removed the No. 2 official widely believed responsible for a controversial document barring blessings for same-sex couples because God “cannot bless sin.” Archbishop Giacono Morandi is currently the secretary of the Congregation for

ALMA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say two people who were snowshoeing over the weekend in Colorado’s mountains were killed in an avalanche. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says their bodies and the body of their dog were found buried in avalanche debris near Hoosier Pass in central Colorado by searchers using an avalanche rescue dog.

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Italy has sent to Athens a small 2,500-year-old marble fragment of the Parthenon Sculptures. Greece hopes the move may lead to the British Museum returning its own share of the works to Athens. Officially, the Sicilian museum is only lending the foot of Artemis, goddess of

GENESEO, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois family has solved the mystery of what happened to their missing cat that likes to sit on horses and donkeys. The Quad-City Times reports that Ann Kandis said the cat, named Noodles, jumped into the trunk of her father’s car in November 2018 while he was at the family’s

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors say that the hundreds of millions of euros that the bloc has poured into six Western Balkan nations to improve the rule of law there just doesn’t pay off. The study of the European Court of Auditors was published Monday and it shows that

ALMA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say two people who were snowshoeing over the weekend in Colorado’s mountains were killed in an avalanche. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says their bodies and the body of their dog were found buried in avalanche debris near Hoosier Pass in central Colorado by searchers using an avalanche rescue dog.

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the country’s Mediterranean coast to talk about internal security. Macron has yet to officially confirm that he is running for a second term in France’s presidential election on April 10. But his visit Monday to the French Rivera city

NEW YORK (AP) — Sorrow is welling across a Bronx community Monday, a day after a fire and choking smoke engulfed a high-rise apartment complex and killed 19 people, nine of them children. As survivors recall the frantic moments of their escape, bereft family and friends of those who perished are reeling in shock, disbelief

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a baby in Germany has been reunited with its parents after they watched in horror as it speed off on a train without them on board. Federal police said the father had put a stroller with his 11-month-old child inside onto the train but was waiting on the platform for

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body-camera video shows a harrowing rescue in California, where a small plane crashed on railroad tracks shortly after takeoff from a suburban Los Angeles airfield. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna crashed Sunday afternoon and a commuter train came roaring roaring through just minutes later. Luckily a police station

By JASON DEAREN Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Flórida (AP) — Supremacistas brancos trabalham em prisões nos EUA   

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has summoned the Dutch representative to object to the Netherlands’ decision to halt funding to a Palestinian civil society group that Israel controversially outlawed. In a statement, the PA decried the “unjust and biased” decision to cut off funding to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees. It’s one of

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC says it has hired former Biden aide Symone Sanders to host a weekend television show and another on its Peacock streaming service. It continues the trend of former political pros jumping to jobs on cable TV, often at dizzying speeds. Sanders said only last

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate. They say his actions surrounding the riot in Washington on Jan. 6 last year amount to engaging in an insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. Lawyers filed a challenge