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By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A rap battle at a local bar means good news for people in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela. The contest is a sign of gradually returning normality after nearly two years of pandemic restrictions. Ten local rappers took

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — A team comprised of mostly veterans is helping Afghan refugees settle in the United States. On Wednesday, Jordon Daniel and others with Team Rubicon were busy furnishing two suburban Denver apartments that will house Afghan families that fled Taliban rule. Daniel joined the Navy after 9/11

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In an impassioned speech to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate has urged world leaders to “prove us wrong” on global warming. Citing studies showing greenhouse gas emissions going up, instead of down as required, she warned on Thursday that millions in

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — At least seven people have been killed as Bangladesh holds village council elections that are certain to further consolidate the governing party’s power but have raised concerns about the country’s state of democracy. The largest opposition party is boycotting the vote after the last two national

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling disruptive outbreaks in the North. It’s a worrisome sign of what could be ahead this winter in the U.S. Meanwhile, trends are improving in Florida, Texas and other Southern states that bore the

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police officers began seeing injured concertgoers just minutes into rapper Travis Scott’s performance at the Astroworld music festival where eight people died. That’s according to police radio traffic obtained by the Houston Chronicle. Officers can be heard over police airwaves on Friday night reporting that people were coming out of the

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel faces growing calls to release five Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for weeks to protest against being held without charge in what’s known as “administrative detention.” One has been fasting for 120 days and is in severe condition. Israel says the policy is needed

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A group of European parliamentarians has urged the Serbian president and other government officials to stop glorifying convicted war criminals and denying genocide committed in Bosnia in the 1990s. The parliamentarians made their appeal on Thursday, two days after Serbia’s police prevented rights activists from painting over a large mural in

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial could ask the jury to consider less serious charges in a trade-off that could help get a conviction but would ensure that he wouldn’t receive a life sentence. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three people, two fatally, during an August

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A use-of-force expert says less than three seconds elapsed between the time a protester in the streets fired a shot in the air and Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with his rifle. John Black testified Thursday for the defense at Rittenhouse’s murder