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Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities say they have charged seven individuals in connection with a cyberbullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies. Jolly became the target of an online hate campaign filled with homophobic and antisemitic abuse following his acclaimed but controversial queer-inclusive opening

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor weighed war crimes charges this year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he was engulfed in a behind-the-scenes personal crisis. Karim Khan faced an accusation he tried to coerce a female aide into a sexual relationship, an allegation he has denied

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor sought war crimes charges this year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over actions in Gaza, he was engulfed in a very different personal crisis playing out behind the scenes. Karim Khan faced accusations that he tried for more than a

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suggested that Poland’s government and its prime minister, Donald Tusk, were installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing populist leadership. Orbán provided no evidence to substantiate his claims about Poland’s government, which defeated a

AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child care costs and other types of financial hardship that prevent them from repaying their loans. Announced Friday, the proposed rule is President Joe Biden’s third attempt at

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A group campaigning for Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iranian authorities have issued an additional six-month prison sentence against her. The Free Narges Coalition said in a statement on Thursday that Mohammadi was sentenced on Oct. 19 to an additional six months in prison on the

PARIS (AP) — Environmental activist Paul Watson, who is detained in Greenland and facing possible extradition to Japan, has formally requested French citizenship after France’s Foreign Minister said his bid for political asylum could not be processed because he is not on French soil. Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd and a prominent anti-whaling advocate,

AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday. A SpaceX capsule carrying three Americans and one Russian parachuted before dawn

Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity. Only legends like Russia’s Garry Kasparov and American Bobby Fischer can match his name recognition. And Carlsen is arguably an even more dominant player. Last month, he beat both men

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish capital is holding the grand opening of new modern art museum designed by the American architect Thomas Phifer. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw opens its doors to the public on Friday. It has a white box-like facade and light-filled spaces and a monumental geometric staircase.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities say three Indian soldiers and their two civilian porters have been killed in a rebel ambush in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police on Friday said rebels sprayed bullets at an army vehicle carrying troops close to the highly militarized line of control near the resort town of Gulmarg on Thursday night. The

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — One of Japan’s largest travel agencies says a tourist died and 12 other people were injured when their a tour bus smashed into the rear of a truck on a highway in Malaysia. JTB Corp. says the incident occurred Thursday in central Perak state while the bus was heading to

Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say a group of militants have attacked a security post in northwest Pakistan and killed 10 officers in an intense shootout. Police said that other security forces were wounded in the attack overnight in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Also on Friday, suspected militants

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Tropical storm Trami has blown away from the northwestern Philippines, leaving at least 82 people dead mostly in extensive flooding and landslides. Authorities scrambled for more rescue boats to save thousands of terrified people who were trapped, some on their roofs. But the trauma caused by the onslaught may

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez still have a long way to go before they can walk out of prison, even though the Los Angeles County district attorney has recommended their life-without-parole sentences be thrown out and the brothers be resentenced and immediately eligible for parole. The brothers, convicted in the