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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s defense ministry says an explosion on a navy ship has killed three sailors. It is unclear whether others were injured or what caused the blast that occurred Tuesday. The ministry said the crew on the INS Ranvir acted quickly to bring the situation under control and no major damage has

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A new report shows that an app that’s expected to be widely used by athletes and others attending next month’s Winter Games in Beijing has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception. Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group, said in a report published

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press A wildfire whipped by gusty winds in a Central Texas state park has forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in the city of Bastrop, the site of a deadly blaze a decade ago. Officials said a prescribed burn Tuesday at Bastrop State Park may have been the cause. No

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says women seeking to participate in shaping and building peace and defending human rights face a “vastly worse” situation now than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that in 2020 her office

By RODOLPHE LAMY Associated Press FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) — An appeals court in the French Caribbean island of Martinique has dismissed a request from groups seeking slavery reparations in a blow to efforts that began more than 15 years ago. The court provided several reasons for its ruling issued Tuesday, including that there’s a statute

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A convicted killer pardoned by Kentucky’s former governor is returning to prison to serve a 42-year federal sentence. Patrick Baker was convicted of a federal murder charge last year. Baker was freed from prison in 2019 when former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned him for the

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers weighing impeachment charges for the state’s attorney general are drilling into the investigation of his fatal car crash in 2020. They spent hours questioning the law enforcement officers and a specialist who analyzed the crash involving Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Nearly all of

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration has chosen Los Angeles to host a summit of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean that is a key part of its outreach to a region increasingly being courted by U.S. adversaries such as Russia and China. It’s the first time the U.S.