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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says the country’s air defenses have responded to missiles that were fired from Israel toward suburbs of the capital Damascus. State TV gave no further details about Saturday’s missile attack. Israeli attacks on Syria have mostly happened during nighttime. Saturday’s strikes came days after Syria accused Israel of carrying

By ANGELA CHARLTON and PAN PYLAS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Britain and France are facing calls to sort out their latest post-Brexit spat over fishing rights in the English Channel, which threatens to escalate within days into a damaging French blockade of British boats and trucks. French President Emmanuel Macron warned Saturday that the

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Quinton de Kock has returned to South Africa’s team for the T20 World Cup game against Sri Lanka in Sharjah. He also took a knee for the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of the start. De Kock refused to play in Tuesday’s game against West Indies after an order

By NICOLE WINFIELD and AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — India’s prime minister has invited Pope Francis to visit the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended an official invitation Saturday during a lengthy audience at the Vatican after plans for a 2017 papal visit fell apart. Modi is in Rome for the Group of

NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has walked out of jail and was greeted with dancing and firecrackers, over three weeks after his arrest during a drug raid on a cruise ship party in Mumbai. The Bombay High Court granted bail to 23-year-old Aryan Khan on Thursday but he spent two

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Interior Ministry says more than 8,500 foreign fighters have been deported from Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war 10 years ago. Terror suspects from 102 countries were expelled, including 44 from the U.S. and 1,075 from EU states, according to a statement Saturday. In the first 10

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations and the United States have urged Sudan’s top generals to show restraint and avoid confrontation as pro-democracy protesters began pouring into the streets against a military coup earlier this week. The U.N. envoy for Sudan met with the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s dispute with Britain over fishing rights is a test of the U.K.’s credibility in a post-Brexit world. France is angry over restrictions on permits to fish in British waters, and has threatened to block British boats and tighten checks on U.K. vessels starting Tuesday. Ahead of

By NICOLE WINFIELD and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press ROME (AP) — The leaders of the world’s economic powers are gathering for the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic. Italian Premier Mario Draghi is welcoming the Group of 20 heads of state to Rome’s Nuvola cloud-like convention center in the Fascist-era EUR neighborhood. Climate change,

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U..N climate conference beginning Sunday. It scares him — even though he’s been vaccinated and is only 29. But the campaigner from the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network is determined

By TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle brandished small arms and fired on a broadcast journalist in his car in the Afghan capital of Kabul, lightly wounding him. A Taliban spokesperson says the journalist for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting survived the late Friday night attack. He says: “We

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has gotten much hotter and more dangerous. The first big climate negotiations were in 1992. The world has warmed more in the past 29 years than in the previous 110

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N.‘s special envoy for Sudan has met with the powerful leader of a Sudanese paramilitary force, urging him to allow peaceful protests and avoid confrontation in the wake of a military coup earlier this week. He said on Twitter late Friday that he met with the

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Memorials large and small, ephemeral and epic have cropped up across the United States in the nearly two years since the coronavirus pandemic started. In New Jersey, one woman’s simple seaside memorial to honor her late brother has grown to honor more than 4,000 lost souls. In Los Angeles, a

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volunteers paint and repaint red and pink hearts on the 500-meter-long memorial wall that honors the at least 140,000 people killed by COVID-19 in Britain. The memorial was established in March by the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and campaign group Led by Donkeys as a visual

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly wave is dedicating a vivid memorial to the pandemic dead: A grove of trees, creating oxygen in a park opposite the hospital where so many died, unable to breathe. Bergamo, in northern Italy, is among

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned attacks on schools, teachers and children and called on all parties to promote the right to education in conflicts. A resolution adopted by the council Friday by a 15-0 vote emphasized the “invaluable role” that education plays in

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Critics of President Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president. It’s “Let’s Go Brandon.” The phrase took off after a reporter at a NASCAR race in early October mischaracterized a vulgar three-word chant against Biden as a chant in

By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The Go-Go’s didn’t have any musical masterplan. Punks at the start, they became rock and roll pioneers. Defying odds and smashing norms in a male-dominated field, the female quintet which had a string of hits in the 1980s, will be inducted Saturday into the Rock & Roll

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to huddle with European allies to talk through strategy on Iran’s nuclear program. The leaders are pressing Saturday for a diplomatic resolution — and planning for the possibility Iran declines to return to the negotiating table. Biden’s meeting with