Russia launches intense night attacks across Ukraine, targeting southern port city for second night | AP News

Russia launches intense night attacks across Ukraine, targeting southern port city for second night | AP News

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched an intense series of night-time air attacks sending drones and missiles toward places across Ukraine, and targeting the southern port city of Odesa for a second night in a row, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Russian emergency officials in Crimea said that over 2,200 people were evacuated from four

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Spain’s political escape artist Pedro Sánchez has odds against him yet again in national election | AP News

Spain’s political escape artist Pedro Sánchez has odds against him yet again in national election | AP News

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been prematurely counted out more than once in his relatively short but action-packed political career.Battered and bruised after seeing his Socialists take a drumming in local and regional elections in May, Sánchez took no time to lick his wounds. The very next day he stunned

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Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside | AP News

Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside | AP News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador’s unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion.Honduras’s progressive president once promised to address gang violence through systemic reforms to governance and the criminal justice

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Wildfires have burned a record amount of area in the Canadian province of British Columbia | AP News

Wildfires have burned a record amount of area in the Canadian province of British Columbia | AP News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Wildfires have already burned a record amount of area in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the situation will probably get worse due to more hot, dry weather, government officials said Tuesday.The fires are responsible for at least two deaths in the province and, combined with a severe drought

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North Korea silent about its apparent detention of the US soldier who bolted across the border | AP News

North Korea silent about its apparent detention of the US soldier who bolted across the border | AP News

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea was silent about the highly unusual entry of an American soldier across the Koreas’ heavily fortified border although it test-fired short-range missiles Wednesday in its latest weapons display.More than half a day after the soldier bolted into North Korea during a tour in the border village of Panmunjom

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House passes resolution to show support for Israel after Democrat’s comments about ‘racist’ state | AP News

House passes resolution to show support for Israel after Democrat’s comments about ‘racist’ state | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday passed a Republican-led resolution reaffirming its support for Israel with strong bipartisan approval — an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who, over the weekend, called the country a “racist state” but later apologized.The resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, passed with over 400 lawmakers backing the

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Michigan charges 16 fake electors for Donald Trump with election law and forgery felonies | AP News

Michigan charges 16 fake electors for Donald Trump with election law and forgery felonies | AP News

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general filed felony charges Tuesday against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, accusing them of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that all 16 people

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In Ukraine, a family’s ordeal to identify and honor a veteran killed in Bucha ends after 16 months | AP News

In Ukraine, a family’s ordeal to identify and honor a veteran killed in Bucha ends after 16 months | AP News

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian veteran’s gravestone carries his photograph and birthday, but the date Roman Shadlovskyi died is a broad estimate: March 2022, the month Russian forces brutally killed both civilians and military personnel before ending their occupation of Bucha.Shadlovskyi’s body was found about three months later in a mass grave along with

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