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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong this year, becoming the latest non-governmental organization to cease its operations amid a crackdown on political dissent in the city. An Amnesty International official said Hong Kong’s national security law has made it effectively impossible for

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s information ministry says military forces have arrested the country’s acting prime minister and senior government officials, disrupted internet access and blocked bridges in the capital Khartoum. The ministry described Monday’s actions as a coup. In response, thousands flooded the streets of Khartoum and its twin city

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A rabble-rousing television pundit and author with repeated convictions for hate speech is rocking the early stages of France’s race to replace President Emmanuel Macron. Eric Zemmour is finding large and fervent audiences for his anti-Islam and anti-immigration invective. He is packing auditoriums with paying crowds and

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s information ministry says the country’s interim Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok is under house arrest and being forced to issue a message in support of a military coup. The news comes as the United States expressed alarm over recent developments in the country, in a transition to

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged Southeast Asian countries to speed up plans to create a regional travel corridor to help revive tourism and speed up a recovery from the economic damage of the pandemic. Citing U.N. and World Trade Organization data, Widodo said Monday that the level of restrictions

By JO KEARNEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) — A proposal to dig a new coal mine in northern England is dividing the British government just as it prepares to host a major climate conference. West Cumbria Mining wants to build Britain’s first deep coal mine in three decades to extract coking

By RYAN PEARSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A camera operator told authorities that Alec Baldwin had been careful with weapons on the set of the film “Rust” before the actor shot and killed a cinematographer with a gun he’d been told was safe to use, records released Sunday show. A

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s information ministry says military forces have detained a number of Sudanese government figures. The country’s main pro-democracy group reported internet and phone outages Monday and called on people to take to the streets to counter an apparent military coup. Sudan has grappled with a transition to

BEIJING (AP) — State media report that a laboratory explosion at a university in eastern China has killed two people and injured nine. State broadcaster CCTV reported the blast occurred Sunday afternoon at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a major center of higher education that has had a large foreign student population. An

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The lone Republican moderate at a U.S. Senate candidate forum in Ohio says that at one point he felt “like a Browns fan in Pittsburgh Stadium.” The crowd of about 950 at the evangelical Genoa Baptist Church north of Columbus never quite booed state Sen.