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The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday
The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…
US says airstrike kills 6 al-Shabab in Somalia after ambush
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United States military says it killed six al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in Somalia after the al-Qaida-linked group attacked Somali forces while U.S. forces were nearby.
Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace
NEW YORK (AP) — John Lewis, Julian Bond and so many other leaders of the civil rights movement are dead; at 78, Jesse Jackson clearly is not the lion he once was.
Gains for tech nudge S&P 500 slightly higher in early trade
NEW YORK (AP) — Most stocks are opening lower on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after the S&P 500 set its latest record high, but gains from several big technology comanies and other stocks nudged the index slightly …
Final 2 Mississippi flag proposals: Shield vs. magnolia
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As Mississippi replaces its former flag that had the Confederate battle emblem, five proposals were literally run up a flagpole Tuesday. A group then narrowed the choice to two designs: One wi…
UN watchdog: Iran to allow access to 2 suspected nuke sites
BERLIN (AP) — Iran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where the country is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday.
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Thai police seek new Interpol notice for Red Bull heir
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand on Wednesday began the process of informing the international police cooperation agency Interpol about a new arrest warrant for an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who was…
Greek coast guard: 96 rescued from yacht carrying migrants
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A broad search and rescue operation was extended into Wednesday night a day after a yacht smuggling migrants partially sank in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greece's coast guard said.
2 people shot to death during protest over Kenosha shooting
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Two people were shot to death during another night of Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha in a possible vigilante attack carried out by a young white man who was caught on cellphone video op…
Zimbabwean activist and opposition leader dies of cancer
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A young Zimbabwean thrust into anti-government activism while searching for his missing journalist brother has died of colon cancer, just as well-wishers had raised money to get him into sur…
Afghan watchdog: Half of police in some provinces use drugs
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Approximately half of all police in Afghanistan's southern provinces use drugs and up to 70% of police positions in those regions are “ghost" positions not actually filled by a person, a n…
Germany to end mandatory tests for travelers, bans protests
BERLIN (AP) — Germany will end mandatory coronavirus tests for travelers returning from high-risk areas abroad and again focus its testing strategy on people with symptoms or possible exposure to COVID-19 patients,…
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Group of French-speaking countries suspends Mali after coup
PARIS (AP) — Mali has been suspended from a global body of French-speaking countries after a military junta overthrew the West African country’s democratically elected president.