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NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has formally requested a new trial, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. In a Wednesday letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan, Maxwell lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said the motion for a new trial had been filed under seal and requested that all submissions

By BABR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a powerful bomb has exploded in a crowded bazar in Lahore, the country’s second-largest city, killing at least two people and wounding 26. A newly formed separatist group from the southwestern province of Baluchistan claimed responsibility for Thursday’s bombing. A senior police official

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Veterinarians in Poland say they have euthanized a brown bear cub after more than a week of treatment failed to ease its serious neurological symptoms. The veterinarians said the bear, named Ada, would not have been able to survive on his own. He was suffering from advanced anaplasmosis, spread by ticks.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s president says parliamentary election in Slovenia will be held on April 24. The vote will test the popularity of right-wing Prime Minister Janez Jansa amid political divisions in the small European Union nation. President Borut Pahor said Thursday he will formally schedule the vote in early February. The April 24

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says that the country’s diplomats during the Nazi era shared blame for the Holocaust and she wants more training for staff to speak up against all forms of discrimination. In a statement marking the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, Annalena Baerbock said Thursday it was important to recognize

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — LOT Polish Airlines says lightning struck one of its planes and prompted the aircraft to return to Warsaw. An airline spokesperson said the lighting hit a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that was en route to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. He said no one was hurt and the passengers

RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford has set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. Her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday. It came 155 days after she departed. Rutherford will find herself in the Guinness World Records book after

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban plans to meet with President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 1 to discuss the progress of a project to expand a Hungarian nuclear power plan. Hungary’s foreign minister told Russian state news agency Tass on Thursday that Hungary wants the project to

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has paid $500 million due on sovereign bonds from its badly depleted foreign reserves despite calls by experts to defer it and use the sum to import essential food and medicine. The Indian ocean island nation is in its worst crisis in decades,