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By JESSICA GRESKO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press The road to a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state began in a town called Waskom, population 1,600. This past week, the Supreme Court decided not to interfere with the state’s strict abortion law, which sidesteps the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade

By ALBERT AJI and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A senior Lebanese government delegation has asked Syria to allow Egyptian natural gas and Jordanian electricity to pass through its territory to ease a crippling fuel crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon. The request came during an official visit to Damascus that marked

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the U.K.’s largest suppliers of seasonal influenza vaccines warns there could be delivery delays of up to two weeks as a result of a shortage of truck drivers. In a statement that has accentuated concerns about the potential scale of this winter’s flu outbreak, vaccine

ISTANBUL (AP) — A collision between a freight train and a minibus in northwest Turkey has killed six people and injured seven others. Turkish news agency Demiroren reported that the crash at a railroad crossing in Ergene, Tekirdag province, involved a minibus carrying textile factory workers and a train headed to nearby Cerkezkoy on Saturday

The Associated Press TEHRAN — Iran’s president is calling for elections in Afghanistan to determine the future of the country, where he hopes peace will return after Western troops have left and the Taliban have seized control. Speaking on state TV on Saturday, Ebrahim Raisi said that the Afghan people should vote to determine their

By ESTHER CUNEO Associated Press PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) — France’s worst virus outbreak is unfolding 12 times zones away from Paris, devastating Tahiti and other idyllic islands of French Polynesia. The South Pacific archipelago lacks enough oxygen, ICU beds and morgue space, and the vaccination rate is barely half the national average. Simultaneous outbreaks on

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press MARRERO, La. (AP) — As the power outages from Hurricane Ida have dragged on, many people have decided to get out of town until the lights come back on. While many have simply packed up their cars and hit the road, others don’t have a car or enough gas to make

By MATT SEDENSKY, CHEVEL JOHNSON and AARON MORRISON Associated Press HOUMA, La. (AP) — The energy company that is providing power to Louisiana says full restoration of electricity to hurricane-battered areas outside New Orleans could take until the end of the month. Phillip May is president and CEO of Entergy Louisiana. He said Saturday that

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Bulldozers with giant blades, crews armed with shovels and a fleet of aircraft dropping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant helped keep the advance of a California blaze threatening South Lake Tahoe  to a couple of thousand acres _ a