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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…
China firm over detention of 2 Canadians after FMs meet
BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it remains firm in its insistence that Canada make the first move to end the detention of two Canadians, following a meeting of the two countries' foreign ministers.
2nd arrest in slaying of Kentucky girl playing in dollhouse
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A second arrest has been made in the fatal shootings of a 3-year-old Kentucky girl and her father.
Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s
TOKYO (AP) — Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th century mass grave that is being excavated for a city deve…
Army helicopters to pluck people from flooded Karachi city
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military said Wednesday it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains, displacing s…
Attorney: Missing Fort Hood soldier's body found in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The body of a missing soldier is believed to have been found about 30 miles from Fort Hood, the Army base in Texas where he was stationed, police said Tuesday.
The Latest: Pope says pandemic worsening social inequalities
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says that the pandemic has both ‘’exposed and aggravated’’ social inequalities.
India indicts Pakistani militant in 2019 Kashmir bombing
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's anti-terrorism agency named a Pakistan-based militant leader as the prime mastermind of a 2019 car bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian soldiers and brought the nuclea…
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North, South Korea brace for strong typhoon, flights halted
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of flights were canceled in South Korea while North Korea’s leader expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching typho…
Thai police continue crackdown on pro-democracy activists
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand continued their crackdown on the country’s student-led protest movement on Wednesday, arresting two more activists on charges of sedition and several minor offenses.
New Zealand mosque shooter won't speak at court sentencing
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — On a day when the poetic words of love from a daughter to her murdered father brought many people to tears in a New Zealand courtroom, the white supremacist who killed him and 50 ot…
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Floods in northern Afghanistan leave at least 100 dead
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Heavy flooding has killed at least 100 people and injured scores of others as heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
French government defends ‘freedom’ of topless sunbathing
PARIS (AP) — On top of the virus and the sinking economy, France’s government has a new problem to worry about: defending women’s liberty of topless sunbathing.
'Our hands are tied': Local aid workers exposed in pandemic
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the U.S. and other donors g…