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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. General Assembly speeches address countless facets of human existence. But on Tuesday, one world leader also made a point of honoring the existence of horses. “Horses have been integral to human livelihoods, culture and civilizations since time immemorial,” said Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, whose Central

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A day after France led other nations in recognizing Palestinian statehood, the U.N. Security Council once again aired a deep divide between the veto-wielding United States and most of the rest of the world over how to end the war in the Gaza

By SHAWN CHEN and JULIE WALKER NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has found and is quietly dismantling a massive network of “SIM farms” across the New York area just as world leaders gather for meetings at the United Nations. Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian medical charity said Tuesday that Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation. The Palestinian Medical Relief Society said an Israeli strike reduced its six-story building in the central Samer area to rubble. It said

By EDWARD ACQUAH and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Eleven West African nationals deported by the U.S. to Ghana were sent to their home countries over the weekend despite safety concerns, their lawyer told a court in Ghana on Tuesday. The U.S. had deported a total of 14 West African immigrants to

INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival, a major Buddhist celebration and world-class tourist attraction, has seen some of its celebratory spirit diminished, with locals and visitors citing a confluence of challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, political upheaval and natural disasters — including a recent devastating earthquake. Crowds nonetheless flocked this

By SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians across the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank welcomed news that a flurry of Western countries have recognized a Palestinian state, while expressing doubt the move will improve their dire circumstances. On Monday, France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Gabrielle churned Tuesday afternoon across open Atlantic waters ever closer to the Azores as forecasters warned residents of the volcanic archipelago to be on guard for a possible strike later in the week. In the Pacific, Narda was upgraded to a hurricane off the west coast of Mexico after steady strengthening

By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press BINT JBEIL, Lebanon (AP) — A village in southern Lebanon on Tuesday buried five people, including three children and their father, killed in an Israeli strike over the weekend. Shadi Charara, a car dealer, was killed while driving home to the southern seaside city of Tyre on

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — It didn’t exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city’s landmark Rijksmuseum, said Tuesday that it was more or less by accident that she discovered

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here — and with it, an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms. Here is some key vocabulary, decoded. For starters … UNGA: Shorthand (often pronounced “UN’-gah”) for the U.N. General Assembly’s “High-level Week,” when presidents,

By MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls

By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the war. Trump posted on social media soon

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor, the International Criminal Court has revealed. The redacted charges were made public Monday after prosecutors submitted a 15-page charge

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Southern Chinese cities scaled back many aspects of daily life Tuesday with school and business closures and flight cancellations as they braced for one of the strongest typhoons in years that has already killed three people and displaced thousands in the Philippines. Residents living in flood-prone

BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China are talking past each other on key issues, said a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Beijing on Tuesday. The visit, led by Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is the first from the House of Representatives to China since

By EDITH M. LEDERER, JENNIFER PELTZ and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — From France to South Korea, South Africa to Suriname, leaders gave strong support Tuesday to the U.N. chief’s call to work together to address global challenges – war, poverty and climate chaos. But U.S. President Donald Trump had other ideas

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press The race to replace coal in Indonesia, the world’s largest coal exporter, has become a contest between the U.S. and China. At stake is not only Indonesia’s climate future, but also which superpower sets the terms for the next generation of energy in the developing world. Like much of the

By MIKE CORDER and MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies. The accusation is vehemently denied

By AAMER MADHANI and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A jury in New Zealand on Tuesday found a woman guilty of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered. The verdict meant the jury at the High Court in Auckland rejected a defense of insanity made

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s Congress fell short Monday of the supermajority required to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of immunity in order to prosecute him on corruption charges. Chaves’ opposition needed a 38-vote supermajority, but only managed 34 votes in favor of lifting the president’s immunity. Twenty-one lawmakers voted against the effort

By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Over 90% of Guineans voted ‘yes’ in a constitutional referendum that could allow the leader of the country’s junta to run for president, according to provisional results announced Monday evening by the electoral body overseeing the vote count. Guinea is one of a growing number of

By PAUL WISEMAN, BARBARA ORTUTAY and PIYUSH NAGPAL The Trump administration’s abrupt decision to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas has stunned and confused employers, students and workers from the United States to India and beyond. Since announcing the decision Friday, the White House has tried to reassure jittery companies that the fee does

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church was arrested in South Korea early Tuesday as investigators probe allegations that the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker. Hak Ja Han, the widow of the church’s South Korean

By MATIAS DELACROIX and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press JAQUE, Panama (AP) — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense jungle. The 36-year-old Venezuelan mother was among a million migrants who

BY FATMA KHALED and AHMED HATEM Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At least 11 children were killed in a drone strike four days ago that hit a mosque in the besieged city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. Local aid groups and activists and the Sudanese army accused

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As the Gaza war rages on, France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict. More nations are expected to follow, in defiance