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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife-wielding man has stabbed at least four pedestrians on a street in the South Korean capital, Seoul. One person has died. Police said that a man in his 30s with a criminal record that wasn’t specified has been arrested. The motivation behind the attack wasn’t immediately clear. Min Moon-ki,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school will be sentenced on Aug. 24 after being convicted of sexually abusing two students. A judge set the date after submissions were made on what sentence Malka Leifer should receive. Two sisters who were students at the school

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — What will North Korea do about the first U.S. soldier in decades to flee into its territory? Its official media have yet to mention Pvt. Travis King, there’s little precedent for his situation and guesses about the country’s next steps vary widely. Unauthorized crossings across

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, met with former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Friday to discuss ways to combat online hate and extremism. Emhoff is in Auckland leading a presidential delegation to the FIFA Women’s World Cup and meeting with officials. He will next

By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil handed Britain’s governing Conservatives two thumping defeats Friday in a trio of special elections that point toward likely defeat for the party in the next national election. The Conservatives avoided a wipeout by holding onto former

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades, during which the opposition has been stifled and the country has moved closer to China. It’s hard to imagine dramatic change with his party virtually guaranteed another landslide victory in this Sunday’s election.

By DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Those who know him in Spain say that Alberto Núñez Feijóo doesn’t enter a political battle unless he has almost every chance of winning. The conservative Popular Party candidate to become Spain’s next prime minister is 61 and has never lost an election in his life.

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press DIMONA, Israel (AP) — The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s. Now, dozens Black Hebrews of their members are facing the threat of deportation. The Black Hebrews, as the spiritual community’s members are commonly known, do not consider

By SCOTT SONNER and HAVIN DALEY Associated Press SAND HARBOR, Nev. (AP) — Tourism officials at Lake Tahoe were surprised when a respected international travel guide included the iconic alpine lake on a list of places to stay away from this year because of the harmful ecological effects of overtourism. But the warning from Fodor’s

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Racist text messages between members of a San Francisco Bay Area police department will be the subject of a court hearing on possible violations of a state law aimed at stamping out racism in the criminal justice system. Antioch Police Department officers have been asked to

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a documentary on Apple TV+ that chronicles the atypical path Stephen Curry took to becoming a basketball legend, new tunes from the rock band Greta Van Fleet and a “Justified” limited series starring Timothy Olyphant. Laura McGann’s documentary “The Deepest Breath” plunges into the world

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Hun Sen has been his country’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades, during which the opposition has been stifled and the country has moved closer to China. With his party virtually guaranteed another landslide victory in this Sunday’s election, it’s hard to imagine