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By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy’s Public Diplomacy and USAID offices in a move that comes amid the tensions with the U.S. and its allies over Belarusian authorities’ crackdown on protests. Samantha Power, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s administrator, said Friday that

By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden says Pope Francis told him he’s a “good Catholic” and should keep taking Communion when the world’s two most prominent Roman Catholics met at the Vatican on Friday. Some conservatives have called for Biden to be denied the sacrament

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara for a year, expressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 cease-fire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front and calling for a revival of U.N.-led negotiations. The vote on

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is challenging  G-20 leaders to overcome “dangerous levels of mistrust” among themselves to urgently and jointly tackle climate change and vaccine inequality with the developing world. Guterres spoke to reporters in Rome on Friday on the eve of the Group of 20 summit

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they have found an Iraqi man dead inside a small truck near the Polish border in a suspected people-smuggling effort gone wrong. Police said Friday they found the body after officers spotted about 30 people getting out of the truck near the eastern town of Goerlitz. The 42-year-old driver

By LISA MASCARO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois says he will not seek reelection next year. Kinzinger is a critic of Donald Trump’s who is on the panel investigating the deadly Capitol attack. The military veteran was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court should recuse themselves. The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Puneeth Rajkumar, a leading star of southern Indian regional cinema, has died after a massive heart attack. He was 46. Rajkumar was a lead actor in 29 movies and also appeared on television, where he was the host of India’s version of “Who Wants to be

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words to its venerable dictionary. The list includes a number of abbreviations and slang terms that have become ubiquitous on social media. Among them are dadbod, amirite, TBH and FTW. The coronavirus pandemic also contributed new terms to the lexicon, such as super-spreader, long COVID and