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By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court Wednesday, a day after he was dragged from another court and arrested in Islamabad, setting off clashes between his supporters and police. Angry protesters stormed and set fire to a building housing Radio Pakistan in

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders have agreed to tighten border controls and law enforcement to fight criminal syndicates that are trafficking workers to other nations where they are forced to participate in online scams, according to a draft statement to be issued at the end of a

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday hosted his counterparts from Turkey, Syria and Iran for talks that marked the highest-level contact between Ankara and Damascus since the start of the Syrian Civil War. FM Sergey Lavrov said that he hoped the meeting would pave the way for a roadmap for normalizing Turkish-Syrian relations.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed decrees abolishing visas for Georgian nationals and lifting a 2019 ban on direct flights to the South Caucasus nation. According to the documents, starting from May 15, Georgian nationals will be allowed to enter Russia without visas — unless they’re coming to Russia to work or

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s fertility regulator said the first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people have been born, in an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said fewer than five babies have been born

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is urging people fighting against its rule to surrender their weapons, offering a cash reward if they do so along with the possibility of reduced sentences if they broke the law. The official announcement Wednesday says people involved in major resistance organizations are “invited to return to the legal

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to showcase the Democratic coalition rallying around his reelection bid. Biden is announcing on Wednesday his campaign’s national advisory board of prominent elected officials who will assist his 2024 campaign. The diverse group of 50 officials includes representatives from nearly

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan braced for more turmoil a day after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was dragged from court in Islamabad and his supporters clashed with police across the country. The 70-year-old opposition leader appeared in court Wednesday for a hearing in which a judge was

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is launching a new phase of his pressure campaign against House Republicans as he makes his case lawmakers should lift the nation’s borrowing authority without any strings attached. The Democratic president is fresh off a White House meeting with no serious breakthrough on

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares declined in muted trading Wednesday as investors awaited an upcoming report on inflation in the United States, an important indicator for where interest rates and global growth might go in the coming months. France’s CAC 40 shed 0.2% in early trading to 7,382.48. Germany’s

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Dozens of zoo animals in Sudan’s capital are feared dead after street battles between the country’s rival forces made the location unreachable. The facility’s director says at least 100 animals, including an elderly crocodile, giant lizards, parrots and a cobra, will have gone more than three

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is holding a summit with top officials of the country’s 16 states over the growing number of asylum-seekers and the lack of housing and spaces in schools or kindergartens for them. The federal government and the states, who represent the local communities and

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot – trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene. But now its maker, OpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and Microsoft, are coordinating with the Biden

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, working with Interpol, have launched an international appeal to help identify 22 women who mostly met violent deaths. Their bodies, some dismembered, were found over a span of 43 years, the most recent in 2019. Some showed signs of abuse or starvation.

By JIM GOMEZ and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders condemned an attack on an aid convoy that the regional group had arranged for displaced people in Myanmar, calling Wednesday for an immediate stop to violence and for the military government to comply with a peace plan. Leaders of

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says troops killed two Palestinian gunmen who fired on them in the occupied West Bank. It’s the latest in near-daily violence in the region. Wednesday’s shooting came as tensions are at a fever pitch, following a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip that killed three senior Islamic