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By NINIEK KARMINI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers have renewed their alarm over and condemnation of the deadly air strikes and artillery shelling in Myanmar. But they failed to reach an agreement Friday on how they should deal with the two-year-old crisis. The civil strife in Myanmar

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Slain at the hands of strangers or gunned down by loved ones. Massacred in small towns, in big cities, inside their own homes or outside in broad daylight. This year’s unrelenting bloodshed across the U.S. has led to the grimmest of milestones: The

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s government says eight people were found dead after a boat capsized off the coast of northern Senegal as it tried to reach Europe. The interior minister said Thursday that the bodies were recovered Wednesday by the fire department and the navy and a search for

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Wagner private military company “simply doesn’t exist” as a legal entity, in comments adding to the series of often bizarre twists that have followed the group’s abortive revolt last month — the most serious threat to Putin’s 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine.

By AIJAZ RAHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press SRIHARIKOTA, India (AP) — An Indian spacecraft is set to blaze its way to the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to a failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft”

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a sunlit art studio in Kyiv filled with easels and canvases, Iryna Farion puts the finishing touches on an oil painting with a predominantly dark color palette in shades of blue and brown. The artwork depicts two intertwined trees held together by their roots, as

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Striking screen actors will begin picketing alongside writers in New York and Los Angeles on Friday in what has become the biggest Hollywood labor fight in decades. The double-barreled strike will shut down the small number of productions that continued shooting in the two months

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two separate shootings 2,000 miles (3,218 kilometers) apart. One killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The other killed 23 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Both were motivated by racial hate. Both involved gunmen who later claimed mental illness. But earlier this year, the

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon (AP) — The little village of Ghajar has been a sore point between Israel and Lebanon for years, split in two by the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But after a long period of calm, the dispute has begun to heat up again. Israel

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly surged Friday after Wall Street’s winning streak barreled into a fourth day, buoyed by the latest signal that inflation may be easing. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost earlier gains, ending down 0.1% at 32,391.26. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.9% to 7,308.50. South Korea’s

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge on Friday afternoon will consider a request to postpone the state’s new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just as Gov. Kim Reynolds is scheduled to sign the measure into law in front of 2,000 conservative Christians barely

By TY O’NEIL Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Even as the already extreme temperatures are forecast to climb even higher, potentially topping records amid a major U.S. heat wave, tourists are arriving at this infamous desert landscape on the California-Nevada border.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two former officers of a federal women’s prison in California have pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual abuse. The pleas on Thursday are the latest developments in cases following an AP investigation revealing rampant abuse of inmates and resulting in prison sentences for the former warden and chaplain. A former

BEIJING (AP) — China says its coast guard issued a warning to a Japanese fishing boat operating in waters surrounding uninhabited East China Sea islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China. State media ran a statement quoting coast guard spokesperson Gan Yu saying a Chinese vessel issued a “warning to depart” to the Japanese

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea’s U.N. ambassador has defended his country’s recent long-range missile launch in a rare appearance at the U.N. Security Council. Kim Song told the council the test-flight of the Hwasong-18 was a legitimate exercise of self-defense. He also accused the United States of driving

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemalan government’s clumsy interference with its presidential election has turned a global spotlight on a country whose struggles with rampant corruption had received limited international attention. President Alejandro Giammattei was deeply unpopular at home, but other than occasional statements of reprobation

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the six-month sprint to the Iowa caucuses begins, the sprawling field of Republican presidential candidates is facing growing pressure to prove they can become serious challengers to former President Donald Trump. The urgency is particularly acute for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,