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SASSARI, Sardinia (AP) — Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont faces a hearing on the Italian island of Sardinia to decide whether to extradite him back to Spain where he is accused of sedition. A group of about 20 supporters rallied outside the courthouse Monday as Puigdemont arrived for the hearing accompanied by his lawyer. Some

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Shaheen has risen to 12. Authorities in Oman said Monday they found the body of a man who disappeared when floodwaters swept him away from his vehicle. That comes a day after a child similarly drowned and two foreigners

MOSCOW (AP) — A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from a nuclear submarine for the first time. The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that the Severodvinsk submarine performed two launches of the Zircon missile at mock targets in the Barents Sea. It first test-fired Zircon from the surface, and then launched another

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say widespread flooding is easing, allowing the capital Bangkok to avoid serious damage. Eight people had died and one woman was missing when floods fed by a storm a week ago inundated hundreds of thousands of households in 32 of the country’s 77 provinces.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two U.S.-based scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of the receptors that allow humans to feel temperature and touch. David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian focused their work on the field of somatosensation. That is the ability of specialized organs such as eyes, ears and

By GARY FIELDS and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary for hundreds of Muslim men and their families. In the weeks after the attacks in 2001, more than 1,000 South Asian and Arab men were arrested in sweeps across the New

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in Philadelphia say a nurse fatally shot his co-worker at a hospital, fled the scene and was shot in a gunfight with police that wounded two officers. The Philadelphia police commissioner told reporters the 55-year-old gunman was wearing scrubs when he shot and killed a 43-year-old certified nursing assistant at Thomas

LONDON (AP) — British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies for more than a week. The crisis has led to long lines at the pumps as anxious drivers scrambled to fill their tanks. The government said about 200 service personnel were deployed Monday to

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister has warned that Myanmar may be excluded from a summit of Southeast Asian leaders this month if it refuses to cooperate with the bloc’s special envoy in resolving the military-ruled country’s deepening crisis. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes Myanmar, picked Brunei’s Second Foreign

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has denied any impropriety in his purchase of luxury homes abroad. He is trying to contain a budding scandal over reports of lavish spending at a time when he has sought international aid to pull his impoverished country out

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 58-year-old Greek man has been arrested after he drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk in front of the the country’s parliament building and reportedly threatened police. Bomb disposal officers checked the vehicle and one gas canister and a plastic gasoline container were removed, police officials said. They added that

MADRID (AP) — More earthquakes are rattling the Spanish island of La Palma, as the lava flow from an erupting volcano surged after part of the crater collapsed. Officials say they don’t expect to evacuate any more people, because the fiery molten rock is following the same route to the sea as earlier flows. Spain’s

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has threatened to trigger a contentious break clause in the U.K.’s divorce deal with the European Union. Such a move that would send the U.K.’s already chilly relations with its huge neighbor into a deep freeze. David Frost told a gathering of the U.K.’s governing Conservative Party on