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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

Associated Press KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the size of an orange, a stitch at a time. At the center of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft passed down

Associated Press In the second half of the 20th century, Mexican and Mexican-American children in Marfa, Texas, were educated in an adobe-style building in classrooms that alumni describe as barracks. They received secondhand textbooks and were paddled for speaking Spanish instead of English in a school where Latino students were segregated from Anglos by law

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say two people have died in eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm. Two residents of Zhoushi Town, about 31 miles northwest of Shanghai, were hit by a falling high-voltage power line and electrocuted, state broadcaster CCTV said

Associated Press Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers played audio of the books during class. Much of the reading material at Garden City Middle School in Long Island was either abridged books,

NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest and indictment of Sean Diddy Combs come after 10 months of allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuse. It began in November when singer Cassie, his former protege and girlfriend, filed a lawsuit alleging years of abuse. Many similar lawsuits followed. In March, authorities raided his houses on both

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue. The Senate vote was Democrats’ latest attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge at a daylong hearing in Phoenix to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries. The judge indicated late Tuesday she won’t decide for more than