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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A major German private art collection accumulated over four generations is going on large-scale show for the first time in Berlin, with a who’s who of French art of the 19th and 20th centuries at its core. The Scharf Collection has its roots in a collection started

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches, an exercise that came as his planned summit on Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump was put on hold. The Kremlin said that as part of the maneuvers involving all parts of Moscow’s

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Two buses and two other vehicles crashed early Wednesday on a highway in western Uganda, killing at least 46 people, police said, in one of the worst motor accidents in the East African country in recent years. Police initially gave the death toll as 63 in

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister toughened his stance Wednesday by declaring that his country is in charge of its own security and isn’t an American protectorate as he prepared to discuss progress on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement with U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s

By THOMAS ADAMSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Louvre’s director on Wednesday acknowledged a “terrible failure” at the Paris tourist attraction after a daylight crown jewel heist over the weekend, and said that she offered to resign but it was refused. The world’s most-visited museum reopened earlier in the day to

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday as forecasters warned of significant flood risk in the northern Caribbean and officials urged residents of flood-prone areas to seek higher ground. Dominican President Luis Abinader said

By AAMER MADHANI, SUSIE BLANN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration announced Wednesday new “massive sanctions” against Russia’s oil industry that are aimed at moving Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and bringing an end to Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine. The sanctions against oil giants Rosneft

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s new president declared a state of emergency in the capital Tuesday in the government’s latest attempt to stem a surge in violence that has stirred protests and contributed to the recent downfall of his predecessor. Peru has seen an increase of killings, violent extortion and attacks on public places in

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian territory. The Hague-based court was asked late last year by the U.N. General Assembly to determine Israel’s