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A Russian media outlet is raided in Azerbaijan’s capital as tensions rise between Moscow and Baku

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Police in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku searched the offices of Russia’s state-funded news outlet Sputnik on Monday, local media reported, as tensions rose between the two countries after the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis during a police raid last week in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

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Women can be drafted into the Danish military as Russian aggression and military investment grow

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press HOVELTE, Denmark (AP) — Peering across a dense stretch of woodland outside of Denmark’s capital with camouflage paint smeared across her face, 20-year-old Katrine scans the horizon for approaching threats. After nearly four months of military training, the young soldier and the rest of her unit spent early June completing

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Russia says Moscow now occupies all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, illegally annexed in 2022

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said Monday that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it — one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022 despite not fully controlling a single one. If confirmed, that would make

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Jury deliberates whether Australian woman served deadly mushrooms with intent to kill her in-laws

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A sequestered jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch. Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests — her parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, and

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Chilean communist scores surprise win in primary vote as battle with far-right looms

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean Communist Jeannette Jara, the country’s former labor minister, won the primary election for left-wing parties Sunday with surprising ease, beating out a more moderate rival to clinch over 60% of the vote. The decisive upset makes Jara, 51, the candidate representing Chile’s beleaguered incumbent government in November elections, set to

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CIA chief told lawmakers Iran nuclear program set back years with strikes on metal conversion site

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal conversion facility and in the process delivered a monumental setback to Tehran’s nuclear program that would take years to overcome, a U.S. official said Sunday. The official, who spoke on the

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Brazil ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro rallies supporters in Sao Paulo to protest his Supreme Court trial

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday attended a public demonstration in Sao Paulo to protest against his ongoing Supreme Court trial in the South American country. A couple of thousand people gathered on Paulista Avenue, one of the city’s main locations, in a demonstration that Bolsonaro, before the event, called

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Iran releases death toll of Israel’s Evin prison attack as officials remain suspicious of ceasefire

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and DAVID RISING Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dozens of staff members, two inmates and a bystander were among the casualties of Israel’s attack last week on Tehran’s Evin prison, a notorious facility where many political prisoners and dissidents have been held. The death toll from the strike was

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‘Kisses yes, Bezos No,’ protesters say, as Bezos wedding bonanza stirs controversy in Venice

By ANTONIO CALANNI and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Hundreds of protesters marched through Venice’s central streets on Saturday to say “No” to billionaire Jeff Bezos, his bride and their much-awaited wedding extravaganza, which reached its third and final day amid celebrity-crowded parties and the outcries of tired residents. On Friday, the

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