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MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner have launched joint drills with the Belarusian military near the border with Poland following their relocation to Belarus after their short-lived rebellion. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Thursday that the weeklong maneuvers will be conducted at a firing range near the border city of Brest and

By The Associated Press China’s ambassador to the United States says it does not want a trade war but will retaliate against any further U.S. restrictions on technology and trade. Ambassador Xie Feng criticized U.S. curbs on the sale of microchips and chipmaking equipment to China imposed last year by the Biden administration. Beijing has

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic clashes in India’s northeast, saying Thursday that the assaults of two women as they were being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur state were unforgivable. A video showing the assaults

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is courting unions as a cornerstone of the United States’ economic future with a speech at a Philadelphia shipyard. Thursday’s speech comes just as some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth the Democratic president wants to campaign on in 2024.

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two suicide bombers attacked a sprawling compound housing a police station and government offices in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two police officers and wounding 15 other people. The attack occurred Thursday in the Bara neighborhood in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. Police chief Akhtar

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian firefighter has died during a deadly storm that swept the Balkans after a heatwave, brining the death toll to six, officials say. Emergency services in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia scrambled Thursday to restore electricity and clear the debris left over after Wednesday’s chaos. Meteorologists say the storm was

By The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities say one man has been killed and at least 48 people are injured, some of them seriously, after a suspected underground gas explosion ripped open roads and flipped vehicles in the heart of South Africa’s biggest city. Authorities say the man’s body was found under a vehicle

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who broke negative stereotypes around Asian men in films, gathered in Hong Kong this week to commemorate their idol’s death half a century ago, remembering his legacy and his life philosophy on persistence. Lee, who was born in

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s elections Sunday will be a battle between two leftist and two rightist parties that are teaming up to form potential coalitions. Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister since 2018, is facing reelection with recent ballots and most polls against him. The Socialist party leader

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — An eighth cheetah death in India’s Kuno National Park last Friday has raised new questions about a project that reintroduced the big cats to the country 10 months ago and has been mired in controversy since its inception. The latest death was caused by an infestation

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic clashes in India’s northeast, saying Thursday that the assaults of two women as they were being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur state were unforgivable. A video showing the assaults

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police and a militant spokesman say Pakistani Taliban shot and killed two police officers and wounded two others in a gun attack at a roadside checkpoint in the city of Peshawar. The attack took place overnight in the Regi Model Town neighborhood, area police chief Arshad Khan said Thursday. He said

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A third night of Russian air attacks targeted Ukraine’s southern cities, including the port city of Odesa, and wounded at least 21 people, Ukrainian officials said Thursday. At least 19 people were injured in Mykolaiv, a southern city close to the Black Sea, the region’s Governor Vitalii Kim said in a

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A winning ticket has been sold in California for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the history of the game. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were: white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball

NEW DELHI (AP) — A landslide triggered by torrential rains in India’s western Maharashtra state has killed five people, with many others feared trapped under piles of debris. An official told the Press Trust of India news agency that rescuers worked through the night to help save people trapped by the landslide, which occurred late

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek says Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have signed deals worth $50.7 billion, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rounds off a three-country tour of the Gulf. Simsek said the various agreements would cement ties between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Erdogan began a tour of Saudi

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more than a decade of civil war, Syrian refugee Suzanne Dabdoob felt a deep pressure in her brain and in her ears, she said, a fear she hadn’t felt since arriving to Jordan

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming judge is set to consider a plea deal for an abortion opponent who investigators say burned the state’s first full-service abortion clinic in years. Twenty-two-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green will have a plea hearing Thursday in a Cheyenne federal court. Court documents show Green told