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Gas prices climb across WA through April
MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…
Sheriff: LA deputies killed Black man who dropped a handgun
Los Angeles (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was investigating the fatal shooting of a Black man by two deputies Monday afternoon.
Lebanese philanthropist Lady Cochrane dies of blast injuries
BEIRUT (AP) — One of Lebanon's most prominent philanthropists and a pioneer defender of the country's heritage, Lady Yvonne Sursock Cochrane, has died from injuries she suffered in the massive Aug. 4 explosion that…
Detentions resume in Belarus as students take to the streets
MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Tuesday resumed detaining protesters in the capital, Minsk, where students took to the streets demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader after an electi…
French paper attacked in 2015 reprints Muhammad caricatures
PARIS (AP) — The French satirical paper whose staff was decimated in a violent attack by Islamic extremists in 2015 is reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad cited by the killers, declaring "history cannot …
Daughter says 'Hotel Rwanda' hero was 'kidnapped' in Dubai
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as saving the lives of more than 1,200 people from genocide was “kidnapped” while in Dubai, his daughter asserts, while a video shared by Rwandan aut…
Pakistan warns ex-PM Sharif must return to face graft case
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday warned the country's ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to return home by Sept. 10 to face a corruption hearing or risk being declared a fugitive from justice.
Jailed Zimbabwean journalist has virus symptoms, says lawyer
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean journalist in jail for more than a month is “visibly ill” and exhibiting symptoms “consistent with COVID-19,” one of his lawyers said, but prison authorities claim the journalis…
Oil companies want Kenya to loosen strict stance on plastics
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the con…
Pope: Use pandemic to give the environment a vital "rest"
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the Earth can recover “if we allow it to rest” and must spur people to adopt simpler lifestyles to help a planet “groaning” under the constant demand for econ…
Who's next? Abe's party maneuvers to pick Japan's next PM
TOKYO (AP) — With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing his plans to step down due to health reasons, members of his ruling party are furiously maneuvering ahead of an internal vote that will ultimately decide his s…
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Trump to wade into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha
Hong Kong democracy activists urge German action on China
BERLIN (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy activists demonstrated outside the German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday as China's top diplomat visited the capital, urging the government in Berlin do more to try and force Beij…
Afghan official: Death toll from week of flooding at 190
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from a week of heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 190 on Tuesday, an official said, with scores more injured as rescue crews search for thos…
Poland approves new German ambassador after long delay
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has accepted the appointment of a new German ambassador after an unusual delay of three months, reportedly rooted in Polish grievances over World War II.
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