Pakistan arrests suspect accused of raping woman on highway

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police said Monday they have arrested one of the two assailants suspected in the gang rape of a woman on a deserted highway after another person was wrongfully detained in the case…

US envoy lauds Pakistan's role in Afghan peace talks process

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan was in Pakistan on Monday to express his gratitude for Islamabad's role in helping launch the much-awaited negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan represent…

In an area better known for Amish, police shots stoke unrest

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a man during a domestic disturbance call, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a “heartbr…

In white Adirondacks, racism may be toughest hill to climb

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Nicole Hylton-Patterson moved to the Adirondack Mountains to help make this vast, and overwhelmingly white, region more welcoming to people who, like her, are Black.

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Weekend gun violence in Chicago leaves 10 dead, 43 injured

CHICAGO (AP) — Gun violence in Chicago left 10 people dead over the weekend and 43 others injured.

Ugandan police nab man entering parliament with severed head

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police on Monday arrested a man attempting to enter the parliamentary building in the capital carrying the severed head of a child in a wrapped gift box.

France tightens screws on public activities to fight COVID

PARIS (AP) — Two of France’s biggest cities with COVID-19 infection rates gathering speed even faster than the national surge in new cases are tightening limits on public activities as the French government seeks t…

Slow-moving Hurricane Sally carrying a deluge to Gulf Coast

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Storm-weary Gulf Coast residents rushed to finish last-minute preparations Monday as Hurricane Sally chugged slowly through warm Gulf waters. Forecasters said the biggest threat is flooding, with…

Just 800 of Greek island's 12,500 homeless migrants rehoused

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Just over 6% of the 12,500 people left homeless last week by the fire that destroyed Greece's biggest camp for refugees and migrants have been rehoused in a new temporary facility under constr…

Search off Crete for boat reported sunk with 16 migrants

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An air and sea search and rescue operation for survivors of a suspected migrant boat sinking was under way Monday off the southern Greek island of Crete.

The National Hurricane Center says Sally has rapidly strengthened to a hurricane, sustaining top winds of around 85 mph

MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Sally has rapidly strengthened to a hurricane, sustaining top winds of around 85 mph.

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South Dakota AG says he wasn't drinking before fatal crash

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg had not been drinking before he was involved in a fatal car crash, his office said Monday.

2018 Florida gubernatorial nominee says he is bisexual

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Andrew Gillum, Florida's Democratic nominee for governor in 2018, told a television interviewer he is bisexual, responding to rumors swirling since March after he was found intoxicated …