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By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Belarusian president, whose iron-fisted rule earned him the nickname of “Europe’s Last Dictator,” wants to fool President Donald Trump with gestures like prisoner releases, the exiled leader of Belarus’ opposition told The Associated Press on Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Trump

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACK BROOK Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse amid an ongoing bankruptcy process. Bishop James Checchio of

BY SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With China leading the way by announcing its first emission cuts, world leaders said Wednesday they are getting more serious about fighting climate change and the deadly extreme weather that comes with it. At the United Nations’ high-level climate summit, Chinese president Xi

By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An aid worker and a local group in Sudan said a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 15 people at a bustling market in the besieged city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The strike on Tuesday came only a few days

By JENNIFER PELTZ and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s president addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, marking the first time any president from his country has done so in almost 60 years. As he spoke, hundreds of people gathered in front of giant

By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, according to medics. It was a rare breach of Israel’s sophisticated missile defenses, which have greatly limited casualties from such attacks. In the

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — All flights entering and leaving Costa Rica were suspended for several hours Wednesday morning after an electrical failure knocked out the radar system at the capital’s main international airport, officials said. Costa Rican airspace was reopened just before 11 a.m. local time, the Public Works and Transportation Ministry said.

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — It would have been natural for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to address the U.N. General Assembly in the 80th anniversary year of the founding of the United Nations. But he won’t. Instead, Premier Li Qiang is speaking at this week’s annual meeting in the latest example of