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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Flight cancellations are skyrocketing at American Airlines. The airline has canceled more than 900 flights on Sunday, or one-third of its schedule for the day. That brings American’s three-day total to more than 1,800 canceled flights. The airline is blaming staffing shortages and high winds that

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters have filled the street outside Georgia’s national parliament building to protest municipal election results that gave the country’s ruling party a near-sweep. Candidates of the Georgian Dream party won 19 of the 20 municipal elections in runoff votes on Saturday, including the

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The diplomatic row between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia is aggravating divisions in Lebanon, already reeling from an economic meltdown and social tension. Pressure is mounting on Lebanese leaders to remove a Cabinet minister whose comments on the war in Yemen sparked the spat with the Saudis.

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia is holding runoff local elections that are seen as test for the leftist national government. The center-right opposition won way more municipalities than the ruling Social Democratic Union during the first round of voting two weeks ago. The main battleground between left and

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s coalition kept a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election despite losing some seats. Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito together won 293 seats. The level allows the LDP and the ruling bloc to control parliamentary committees in the

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials say an illegal tap on a natural gas line is apparently to blame for pre-dawn explosions that shook the central Mexico city of Puebla. At least one person has died and 11 are injured. Puebla state Gov. Miguel Barbosa says an emergency call warning of

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 countries haggled for two days in Rome over steps to tackle climate change and a pandemic recovery that is diverging between rich and poor countries. Climate change dominated their summit, which ended Sunday just as an annual U.N. Climate Change Conference

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Jim Bob Duggar, whose large family was featured in the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” has announced he’s running for a seat in the Arkansas Senate. Duggar, who previously served in the Arkansas House, announced Friday on the family’s Facebook page that he is running for the district in

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Pro-democracy activists in Thailand have announced a campaign to gather 1 million signatures to support the abolition of the law that makes defaming the monarchy a crime. About 3,000 people rallied Sunday in central Bangkok urging the end of the law — also known as Article 112

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials say an illegal tap on a gas line is apparently to blame for an early morning explosion that shook the central Mexican city of Puebla. At least one person has died and 11 are injured. Puebla state Gov. Miguel Barbosa says an emergency call warning of a gas smell in

PRAGUE (AP) — A cable car has crashed in northern Czech Republic, killing one person. The head of the regional government said one of the cable car’s two cabins crashed to the ground on Sunday afternoon and the staff person who was the only onboard was killed. Rescuers say none of the 15 people from

By FRANK JORDANS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists’ demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at speeding up the global response to global warming. Patricia Espinosa, who is

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at number one and two prominent genre newcomers, “Last Night in Soho” and “Antlers,” stumbling. Whether it’s due to Halloween falling on a Sunday, too many new options or simply a lack of enthusiasm,

By NICOLE WINFIELD, DAVID MCHUGH and KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries. They’ve also made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century.” The commitments came as the Group of 20 biggest economies wrapped

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — A 7-year-old Missouri boy has died after he fell off a hayride and was struck by the trailer he had been riding in. The Jackson County Sheriff’s office says the accident happened Saturday near Lee’s Summit. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a tractor was pulling the trailer and that

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man has been killed in Indianapolis, matching last year’s record for criminal homicides in the city. The Indianapolis Star says the death early Sunday was the city’s 215th this year with two months still to go. Ron Gee, a member of Cease Fire Indy, says the group had hoped for 72

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One of the two candidates In Boston’s historic mayor’s race has found herself questioned about her decision to identify as a person of color. Annissa Essaibi George describes herself as Polish-Arab American. But she acknowledges she hasn’t always identified herself as a person of color. That’s in

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police and witnesses say a man dressed in a Joker costume and brandishing a knife stabbed at least one passenger on a Tokyo commuter train and started a fire. Some people scrambling to escape the attack jumped from the train’s windows. The Tokyo Fire Department says 17

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s annual investment forum has drawn over a thousand participants, with big-name U.S. financiers and business leaders back on the stage three years after many stayed away following international outcry over the killing of a government critic in a Saudi consulate. In the years

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has a long history of police violence and now authorities are looking at body cameras as a way to avoid deadly incidents involving officers. The biggest program of that kind started in June in Sao Paulo state, involving 3,000 police officers. There