As the world’s diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace | AP News

As the world’s diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace | AP News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside, with speeches and machinations and carefully deployed elbows, those who administer the world persist in their search for the elusive path to peace. Outside, on the wooded grounds of a place founded on the premise of ending conflict, sometimes they can find it. In the walled-off compound of the United

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French activists protest racism and police brutality while officers are on guard for key events | AP News

French activists protest racism and police brutality while officers are on guard for key events | AP News

PARIS (AP) — Families, community groups and far-left activists marched in cities around France on Saturday to decry racism and police brutality, putting authorities on edge at a time when French police are deployed en masse for a string of high-security events.Lingering anger over the killing by police of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk in June was

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A bombing at a checkpoint in Somalia killed at least 15 people, authorities say | AP News

A bombing at a checkpoint in Somalia killed at least 15 people, authorities say | AP News

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An explosives-laden vehicle detonated Saturday at a security checkpoint in the central Somalia city of Beledweyne, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40 others, authorities said. Abdifatah Mohamed Yusuf, the director-general of the Hirshabelle Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management, confirmed the deaths. “Twenty of the wounded have been admitted

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Biden faces foreign policy trouble spots as he aims to highlight his experience on the global stage | AP News

Biden faces foreign policy trouble spots as he aims to highlight his experience on the global stage | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — This probably wasn’t how President Joe Biden envisioned his big foreign policy week ending.Biden spent much of the time trying to make the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly as well as to Democratic donors and voters that his decades of foreign policy experience and demonstrated moral clarity set

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Croatian police detain 9 soccer fans over the violence in Greece last month that killed one person | AP News

Croatian police detain 9 soccer fans over the violence in Greece last month that killed one person | AP News

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police have arrested nine soccer fans sought on European warrants for involvement in deadly violence last month in Greece, state television station HRT reported on Saturday. Greece has issued arrest warrants for 10 fans of Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb soccer club, but one of them remains at large, the report said.

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Trudeau pledges Canada’s support for Ukraine and punishment for Russia | AP News

Trudeau pledges Canada’s support for Ukraine and punishment for Russia | AP News

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced several support measures for Ukraine, including military, economic and humanitarian assistance, while also pledging an additional show of diplomatic backing through steps intended to punish Russia over the war.“We’re continuing to impose costs on Russia and ensuring that those responsible for this illegal, unjustifiable invasion do not benefit

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Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs to provide dental care to their poorest residents | AP News

Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs to provide dental care to their poorest residents | AP News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He couldn’t sleep, barely ate and relied on painkillers to get by.The 67-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, could not afford to see a dentist on the $1,300-a-month his family gets in Social Security and disability payments. So he waited for

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