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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the country, Americans are asking if the longest war in their history was worth the cost. A U.S. Marine who served four deployments in Afghanistan says he’s convinced that even a handful

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two amateur Chinese computer coders are set to be released next week after more than a year behind bars. The two were jailed after archiving deleted news articles about the pandemic’s initial outbreak. A brother of one of the imprisoned coders said the sentencing took place

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a gay pride march in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo. Organizers said that LGBT people have been further marginalized in the impoverished and conservative Balkan nation since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. A colorful crowd that walked the streets of central Sarajevo under heavy security after

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius (116.96 Fahrenheit) in Montoro, Cordoba, in the southern Andalusia region. The development came Saturday as Southern Europe sweltered under a relentless summer sun. If confirmed, that exceeds the country’s previous record of 46.9 degrees Celsius

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry says 8 Russian and Turkish crew members were killed after a firefighting plane leased from Russia crashed Saturday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey. The amphibious Beriev Be-200 crashed while trying to land in Turkey’s Adana province. A team to investigate

MADRID (AP) — Human rights groups have denounced Spain’s expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and urging an immediate halt to the process. Amnesty International spokesman Ángel Gonzalo said the deportations began Friday and continued Saturday. The Spanish radio station Cadena Ser said 15 children were deported from the Spain’s North

MOSCOW (AP) — Heavy rains have flooded broad areas in southern Russia, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,,500 people. Authorities in the Krasnodar region said Saturday that more than 1,400 houses have been flooded following storms and heavy rains that swept the area this week. About 108,000 residents of 11 settlements were left without

MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three out of eight people who went missing when a helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a deep volcanic crater lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula Russia’s far east. The Mi-8 helicopter with 16 people on board crashed in Kurile Lake on Thursday while trying to land on

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media says authorities will impose a six-day-long “general lockdown” in cities across the country, after being hit by what it describes as its fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown includes all bazaars, markets and public offices, as well as movie theaters, gyms and restaurants in all Iranian

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Supporters of Zambian opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema have begun celebrating as early election results show him leading in the tightly-fought, tense presidential race. Ignoring calls by the Electoral Commission for people to wait peacefully for the final official results, young opposition supporters drove through the streets

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared international system instead of waiting at the back of the line for unreliable donations from rich countries. It hasn’t worked out that way. Some rich countries bought up doses through the initiative known

BERLIN (AP) — Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a license to distribute its German-language service via satellite. Authorities in the grand duchy said Friday they concluded that Luxembourg wasn’t the right jurisdiction to rule on the request because RT’s German service is based in Berlin and a significant part

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwestern England was given back his confiscated gun and gun license. Police have said Jake Davison killed his mother and four other people, including a 3-year-old girl,

By LIUDAS DAPKUS and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian officials say a recent influx of thousands of migrants from neighboring Belarus appears to have stopped. But with a pile of asylum bids to process and anger rising in local communities near migrant camps, Lithuania faces an unfamiliar challenge. The U.N. refugee

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say attackers targeted a truck in the port city of Karachi, killing at least nine people and wounding nine others. A senior police officer says over 20 people, including women and children, were riding in the truck, returning from a wedding ceremony when the attack happened on Saturday night.