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By MATTHIAS SCHRADER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — The Oktoberfest fairgrounds closed for several hours Wednesday as police conducted a security sweep of the famed beer festival due to a bomb threat by a suspect linked to an explosion across town in northern Munich. Police in Bavaria, the state where Munich is

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it was their “last opportunity” and that anyone who stayed would be considered a militant supporter and face the “full force” of Israel’s latest offensive.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions suitable for life. Their findings, reported Wednesday, are based on observations made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2008 during

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president and the U.N. nuclear agency head are sounding the alarm about increased safety risks at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, which lost its external power supply more than a week ago as the war raged around it. Emergency diesel generators

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Athens Wednesday as part of a general strike that left ferries tied up in port and disrupted services across the country to protest changes to the country’s labor laws. Many of the protesters also waved Palestinian flags and chanted “free, free Palestine” to

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press BOGO, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers used backhoes and sniffer dogs to look for survivors in collapsed houses and other damaged buildings in the central Philippines after an earthquake killed at least 72 people and injured more than 200 others. The death toll was expected to rise from

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to activists from Sudan and Myanmar, where military and political violence devastates communities, to the Pacific Islands, where climate disaster threatens entire nations, and to Taiwan, which is the frequent target of threats and disinformation. “As authoritarianism and division rise globally, the 2025 Right Livelihood

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescue workers continued to search on Wednesday for dozens of missing students suspected of still being buried under the rubble of a collapsed school in the province of East Java. The death toll following the incident on Monday has risen to six, according

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to authorize a much larger, 5,550-member international force with expanded powers to help stop escalating gang violence in Haiti. The resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and Panama, will transform the current Kenya-led multinational force into a “Gang Suppression

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO Associated Press A high military court in Congo convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and war crimes Tuesday on accusations of collaborating with anti-government rebels and sentenced him to death. It was not immediately clear how the sentence could be carried out because the whereabouts of Kabila, who has been on

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have finally outmaneuvered Hamas. After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire plan with U.S. President Donald Trump. The 20-point plan, unveiled by Trump and Netanyahu

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities arrested a Ukrainian diver who is suspected of involvement in undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany three years ago, Polish and German prosecutors said Tuesday. Volodymyr Z. was detained in Pruszkow, central Poland,

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The outer bands of distant Hurricane Humberto lashed Bermuda on Tuesday ahead of a more direct pass from the newer and stronger Hurricane Imelda on the tiny British territory. Humberto was passing well north of the island in the north Atlantic, but wind gusts

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts after a U.S. peace plan on ending the Israel-Hamas war cast him in a leading role in overseeing the post-war administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

By The Associated Press Hamas said Tuesday it will discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza within the militant group and with other Palestinian factions before responding. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already thrown his support behind it, but it’s unclear whether Hamas will agree, or when it will give a response.

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to 19 in the country with more missing. Rainfall topped 30 centimeters (nearly a foot) in parts of Vietnam over the past 24 hours, the national weather agency

By TRISNADI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors Tuesday a day after the structure fell. At least three students were killed, more than 100 were

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed his “Global Governance Initiative,” Beijing made its intent clear at the most global of forums — that it should, and is qualified to, help shape the world order even as the United States tips more inward under Donald

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s foreign minister has “renounced” her U.S. visa to protest a decision by the U.S. State Department to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Colombian government said Monday. The decision by Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio comes as tensions between both

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent

By ROB GILLIES and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, pushing back at President Donald Trump’s assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country’s biggest trade partner. Trump famously said at his inauguration that “during