Zelenskyy returns to Washington to face growing dissent among Republicans to US spending for Ukraine | AP News

Zelenskyy returns to Washington to face growing dissent among Republicans to US spending for Ukraine | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returns to Washington on Thursday for a whirlwind one-day visit, this time to face the Republicans now questioning the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has kept his troops in the fight against Russian forces. Zelenskyy will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House

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Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy | AP News

Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy | AP News

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy.Public displays rejecting machinations by the attorney general’s office had been modest in the month since Arévalo’s resounding victory.

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Canada gets muted allied support after alleging India may have been involved in killing of Canadian | AP News

Canada gets muted allied support after alleging India may have been involved in killing of Canadian | AP News

TORONTO (AP) — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up in Parliament and said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen, the muted international response offered a lesson in modern geopolitics.India, it seems, may be too powerful to alienate.None of Canada’s most important allies — not the U.S., Britain, Australia

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Russian strikes cities in east and central Ukraine, starting fires and wounding at least 14 | AP News

Russian strikes cities in east and central Ukraine, starting fires and wounding at least 14 | AP News

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions rocked Ukrainian cities overnight, as a massive Russian attack started fires and injured at least 14 people.Seven people were injured in Kyiv, including a 9-year-old girl, reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko, and some residential and commercial buildings were damaged.At least six strikes hit the Slobidskyi district of Kharkiv, damaging civilian infrastructure

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India moves toward reserving 33% of the seats in Parliament and state legislatures for women | AP News

India moves toward reserving 33% of the seats in Parliament and state legislatures for women | AP News

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament on Wednesday took a major step toward reserving 33% of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, an issue that had languished for nearly three decades because of a lack of consensus among political parties.Indian President Droupadi Murmu

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$100M men Kane and Bellingham give good value to Bayern and Madrid in Champions League debut wins | AP News

$100M men Kane and Bellingham give good value to Bayern and Madrid in Champions League debut wins | AP News

GENEVA (AP) — Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham made $100 million moves in the offseason and proved their worth Wednesday in Champions League debuts for their new clubs.England captain Kane and his likely successor Bellingham scored key goals for Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, respectively, to show why they are adored already by their new

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Communication outage hits flood-stricken city in Libya, further complicating search efforts | AP News

Communication outage hits flood-stricken city in Libya, further complicating search efforts | AP News

CAIRO (AP) — A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya further complicated the work of teams searching for bodies under the rubble and at sea Wednesday. The country’s chief prosecutor, meanwhile, vowed to take “serious measures” to deliver justice for the victims of the floods, which killed thousands of people and

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Catholic priests bless same-sex couples in defiance of a German archbishop | AP News

Catholic priests bless same-sex couples in defiance of a German archbishop | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — Several Catholic priests held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne Cathedral on Wednesday night in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki.Their protest was triggered by Cologne church officials’ criticism of a priest from Mettmann, a town near Duesseldorf, who in March had held a “blessing ceremony

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