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By CHAN HO-HIM and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway and collided with a security patrol vehicle before both fell into the sea early Monday, killing the two people in the car, authorities said. The plane’s four crew members were unhurt. The Boeing 747,

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China likes to condemn the United States for extending its arm too far outside of its borders to make demands on non-American companies. But when it sought to hit back at the U.S. interests this month, Beijing did exactly the same. In expanding export rules on rare

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA (AP) — Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift were buoyed Sunday when Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate. Tufan Erhurman, 55, won by a landslide,

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was buried Sunday at his rural home as the country, which has previously been marred by post-election violence and anti-government protests, faces political uncertainty. Leaders present at the burial, who included President William Ruto who signed a political pact with Odinga

PARIS (AP) — Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning. The daring heist at the world’s most visited museum occurred as tourists were inside the Galerie d’Apollon, where part of the French Crown Jewels

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa, a U.N. official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, told The Associated Press that the U.N. staffers were detained inside

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border on Sunday, South Korea’s military said. The military took the custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre ’s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said. The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside, was

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas militants had killed two soldiers, and an Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into the territory was halted. The military later said

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into effect immediately and is intended to pause hostilities. Violence has escalated between the neighbors since earlier

By ISABEL DEBRE and PAOLA FLORES Associated Press

By DESMOND TIRO and NICHOLAS KOMU Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could make more people homeowners. The

By CHRISTOPHER MEGERIAN Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. State Department said Saturday that it has “credible reports” that Hamas could violate the ceasefire with an attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. If the attack takes place, it “would constitute a direct and grave violation” of the agreement forged by President

By ANSELM GIBBS Associated Press PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago cautioned Americans on Saturday to stay away from American government facilities on the twin-island nation. It was an unusual warning that came as tensions grow between the United States and Venezuela over deadly U.S. strikes in Caribbean waters targeting

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Cameroonian-flagged ship caught fire Saturday in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen after possibly being struck by a projectile, officials said, with at least one mariner missing and another still likely aboard the burning tanker after the rest of the crew abandoned the

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians shared their disappointment Saturday that the U.S. may not provide Kyiv with long-range Tomahawk missiles, while work to repair the damaged power supply to the country’s Zaporizhzhia power plant soothed other concerns surrounding Europe’s largest nuclear plant. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House

By TOQA EZZIDIN, SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel said Hamas handed over “two coffins of deceased hostages ” from Gaza late Saturday, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increased pressure on the militant group to share the rest more quickly under their ceasefire. No names were immediately released. The bodies

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press Britain’s Prince Andrew was forced to relinquish use of his remaining royal titles after the latest revelations about his relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein proved one scandal too many for his brother, King Charles III. Andrew’s antics have tried the patience of the royal family for more than

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. It is the deadliest crisis between the two countries in several years. The sides agreed to

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Heavy security was deployed to Kenya’s western city of Kisumu before the final public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday, after five people died in the last two public funeral events. Military officers, regular police and air surveillance teams were

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As Israelis and Palestinians wait anxiously to see what comes after a ceasefire in the two-year war in Gaza, the experience of the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s may offer lessons in the thorny process of moving from seemingly intractable conflict to

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The most recent torrential rains in east-central Mexico, which have left at least 76 dead and dozens more missing, have raised questions again about the government’s ability to alert people to severe weather in time. Authorities continue to describe the days of torrential rain last week

By MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Weeks of nationwide Gen Z protests in Madagascar sparked by power and water shortages escalated and led to a military coup that forced President Andry Rajoelina into exile. Army officer Col. Michael Randrianirina has been sworn in as the new leader of the Indian Ocean nation. The

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Two days after dozens of journalists left their desks at the Pentagon behind rather than agree to government-imposed rules on how they report about the U.S. military, it’s apparent they haven’t stopped working. Reporters have relied on sources to break and add nuance to stories about U.S. attacks in

By TOQA EZZIDIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and MARIAM FAM Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bassil Naggar can finally sleep without getting jolted awake by the sounds of Israeli airstrikes. For Naggar and his displaced family, and for many in Gaza facing similar challenges, the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war has provided a much-needed

By JOHN LEICESTER and EMMA BURROWS PARIS (AP) — Police in France detained four people suspected in a plot targeting exiled Russian rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, who exposes abuses in Russian prisons, France’s national anti-terror prosecution office said. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Osechkin, who founded a rights group for prisoners in