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GENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery once used by the school that operated

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming. Francis in remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday said the cry of the poor, united to the cry of

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters. Prison official Arshad Shah said Sunday that the group left the Karachi central prison and boarded a bus for the eastern

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to slow the fast spread of the coronavirus in the country. The move prohibits unvaccinated individuals older than age 12 from leaving their homes except for basic activities such as work, grocery shopping, going for a

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three dozen Kuwaiti dissidents in a move aimed at defusing a government standoff.  The royal decree, published late Saturday in Kuwait’s official gazette, said that Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah had cut

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says Israel has been using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from farming and pasture lands in the occupied West Bank. A report released Sunday by the group B’Tselem details the takeover of roughly 11 square miles of farm and pasture land in the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has missed out on the Remembrance Sunday service in London to pay tribute to Britain’s war dead after she sprained her back. The service is one of the most important on the 95-year-old monarch’s calendar, and it was widely expected to be her first

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s election agency says the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month. Libya’s election agency said in a statement Sunday that Seif al-Islam submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is decrying society which “hurries past” the poor, judges them and leaves them to their fate. The pontiff on Sunday made the appeal against what he called “growing indifference” to the indigent as he celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by some 2,000

By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling from the pandemic and an aviation industry hard-hit by the coronavirus –  but on the mend. Boeing and Airbus have traditionally been the stars of the aviation trade show that

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Officials say a fire broke out on a ward for COVID-19 patients in Bulgaria, killing three people. The fire in the southern Bulgarian town of Sliven broke out at about 2:40 a.m. Sunday, the chief of the local fire brigade, Vladimir Demirev, told reporters. The blaze occurred in a room on

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead. The monarch is “disappointed” to miss the event, officials said. The service had been expected to be the  95-year-old monarch’s first

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities say migrants who tried to cross the border from Belarus attacked Polish police officers with stones, hitting one in the helmet. In a separate incident some three hours earlier, about 50 migrants broke through a border barrier by force near a different border village. Police said they detained 22

By ADAM PEMBLE and MATTHIAS SCHRADER BOHONIKI, Poland (AP) — Maciej Szczęsnowicz cried when he saw migrants at the border for the first time, hungry and exhausted from the ordeal of being stuck while trying to enter from Belarus. The chairman of the local Muslim community in the eastern Polish village of Bohoniki, Szczęsnowicz saw

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is holding runoff municipal elections in almost two-thirds of the country after the center-right opposition parties dominated in the first round. About 1.26 million voters in the small Balkan nation can cast ballots in the second round to elect mayors in 21 out of 38 municipalities. The governing left-wing Self-Determination

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — For most of his 27 years as the authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has disdained democratic norms, making his country a pariah in the West and bringing him the sobriquet of “Europe’s last dictator.” Now, his belligerence is directly affecting Europe. Angered by European Union sanctions

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination rates are low, but politicians have hesitated to impose the measures to curb the virus that experts are calling for. A World Health Organization official declared earlier this month that Europe is