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Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese warplanes tailed a U.S. military aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, China’s military said. The U.S. aircraft was a P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance plane, capable of conducting long-range anti-submarine warfare, according to a statement by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command. The U.S. Navy

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Officials say protected Green and Loggerhead turtles are making a big comeback on the beaches of two British military bases in Cyprus, with the number of nests surpassing last year’s record count by nearly 25%. Environmentalists said Tuesday there were 382 sea turtle nests recorded this year on all sandy beaches

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Meta said it’s banning Russia state media organization from its social media platforms, alleging that the outlets used deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow’s propaganda. The announcement drew a rebuke from the Kremlin on Tuesday. The company, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, said late Monday that it will roll

BANGKOK (AP) — Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at least 226 lives, with 77 people missing, state-run media reported Tuesday. The new figures push the total number of dead in Southeast Asia from the storm past 500. The accounting of casualties has been

LONDON (AP) — A man has appeared in a London court charged with killing three women in a knife and crossbow attack near London in July .  Kyle Clifford faces three murder charges over the deaths of Carol Hunt and her daughters Hannah and Louise Hunt. The victims — the wife and daughters of John

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has put women in many of the top roles on her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc. This comes after many EU member states had been reluctant to give in to her demand for gender parity.

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow residents to return to their homes is now an official war goal, as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon that could ignite an all-out conflict. Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to take heavier military action

Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali’s capital, but some soldiers were killed. The army chief of staff said the militants tried to infiltrate the Faladie gendarme school in Bamako and also targeted the airport in Tuesday’s attack. The

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The new hard-right Dutch government has pledged clamp down on migration with stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don’t qualify for asylum.  The vow came Tuesday as the mostly ceremonial king laid out the administration’s plans for the coming year in a speech to

Associated Press AVIGNON, France (AP) — A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed. His wife of 50 years, who has divorced him since his arrest, also got to

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Independent U.N. human rights experts say Venezuela’s government has intensified the “harshest and most violent mechanisms of its repressive apparatus” in the wake of the disputed July presidential election. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, which is closely aligned with President Nicolás Maduro’s administration, has declared that he won the July 28

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes remained stuck in place on Tuesday as Wall Street made few big moves ahead of what’s expected to be the first cut to interest rates in more than four years. The S&P 500 edged up by 1.49, or less than 0.1%, to 5,634.58. It remains

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A police official says days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead. Police Assistant Commissioner Joseph Tondon in Enga province on Tuesday said the death toll from the violence blamed on illegal miners is still being assessed. But he said

Associated Press A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former operations director, said he felt let down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s decision