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By SHEIKH SAALIQ and RAJESH ROY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police were investigating a deadly car explosion in New Delhi under an anti-terrorism law, officials said Tuesday, as forensic experts worked to determine the cause of the blast. The explosion occurred near the historic Red Fort late Monday, killing at least eight

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In an undated letter to Hamas’ Qassam Brigades published online by the group, the Houthis offered their clearest

By ANTON L. DELGADO and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The head of the International Maritime Organization said Monday he’s continuing to “advocate and campaign” for global regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels, despite the United States and Saudi Arabia blocking new rules last month. IMO Secretary-General Arsenio

LONDON (AP) — The BBC’s top leader and head of its news division resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited U.S President Donald Trump’s speech before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The scandal leading to Sunday’s resignations is hardly the first controversy to hit Britain’s publicly funded

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys say they have cleared all the hurdles needed to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia and are asking a federal judge to dissolve an order blocking his deportation. Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year has helped galvanize opposition to President

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary aired by Britain’s national broadcaster. BBC chairman Samir Shah on Monday apologized for the “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s

By RAJESH ROY and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A car explosion near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital on Monday killed eight people and injured at least 19 others, police in New Delhi said. The blast, which triggered a fire that damaged several vehicles parked nearby, took place near one

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican said Monday it was investigating a possible antisemitic incident, in which a Swiss Guard allegedly made a spitting gesture toward two Jewish women. The alleged incident occurred during a papal audience Oct. 29, at the entrance to St. Peter’s Square. The audience that day was

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus threatened Monday to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stranded in his country following the closure of its border with Lithuania in recent weeks after repeated incursions by weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes. Lithuania, a NATO and European Union member, closed the

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he wants to order 25 Patriot air defense systems from the United States, as Ukraine desperately tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across Ukraine on the brink of winter. Zelenskyy acknowledged that the Patriot

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza ceasefire, while Israel returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians. The remains of four hostages are

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand threatened Monday to suspend a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Cambodia after a land mine explosion along their volatile border injured four Thai soldiers. Thailand and Cambodia signed the truce agreement last month after territorial disputes between the Southeast Asian neighbors led to five days of combat in

By NINIEK KARMINI and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia declared the former dictator Suharto a national hero on Monday, provoking outrage from rights group who said the move was an attempt to whitewash decades of human rights abuses and corruption that took place during his 32 years in power. Suharto was

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from prison Monday after a Paris appeals court granted him release under judicial supervision, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol faces more criminal charges as prosecutors alleged Monday that he ordered drone flights over North Korea in a deliberate bid to stoke tensions and justify his plans to declare martial law. Yoon set off the most serious

By SETH BORENSTEIN, ANTON L. DELGADO and MELINA WALLING Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — A litany of recent weather disasters rang long Monday at the opening of U.N. climate negotiations: Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, a deadly tornado in Brazil, droughts and fire in Africa. Against that backdrop, activists used an empty chair to drive

By CHAN HO-HIM AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing’s new K-visa program targeting science and technology workers could turn that dream into a reality. The K-visa rolled out by Beijing

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after causing floods, landslides, power outages and at least 18 deaths. The typhoon weakened into a tropical storm over the South China Sea and was moving northwest toward Taiwan, where it could hit Thursday. Fung-wong lashed

LONDON (AP) — The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster’s top news executive both resigned Sunday after criticism of the way the organization edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had both decided to leave the corporation. Britain’s publicly funded national

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Representatives of European, Latin American and Caribbean nations on Sunday began a two-day summit in Colombia to try to strengthen ties despite questions on the gathering’s relevance and divisions in the Western Hemisphere over the U.S. military operation targeting alleged drug-carrying vessels. Colombian officials have indicated

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Rescuers in Malaysia recovered the bodies of seven migrants from Myanmar and found 13 alive from a boat that capsized with dozens aboard, officials said Sunday. The vessel had departed from the town of Buthidaung, in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, carrying some 300 people, said First Adm. Romli Mustafa from the

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in ways they expected or wanted. Earth’s warming climate has gotten nastier faster than society has been able to wean itself from burning the coal, oil

By AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Judy Bertuso, 63, leans forward inside a bright orange tent set up on the floor of a basketball court in Quezon City, carefully spooning porridge into her husband Apollo’s mouth. Apollo, 65, sits in a wheelchair as he recovers from a stroke, his frail frame outlined

By QASSIM ABUL-ZAHRA and STELLA MARTANY Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Members of Iraqi security forces and displaced people living in camps, including minority Yazidis, cast their ballots Sunday in early voting ahead of this week’s parliamentary election in Iraq. The election, which will help determine whether Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani gets

By MELANIE LIDMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Sunday confirmed it had received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in the Gaza Strip in 2014, closing a painful chapter for the country. The 23-year-old was killed two hours after a ceasefire took effect in that year’s

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday. The report comes as Russia and Ukraine have traded almost daily assaults on each other’s energy infrastructure and U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war have not advanced. Elsewhere,

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Walter Bingham was 14 years old when Nazis plundered Jewish businesses and places of worship across Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass.” Bingham is among a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors marking the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht Sunday,