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BERLIN (AP) — The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany was found with life-threatening wounds on Tuesday. Investigators said there was no evidence of a political motive and that they suspected a family connection to the attack. Iris Stalzer was elected mayor of Herdecke on Sept. 28. She is a member of

By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday his first foreign trip, to Turkey and Lebanon next month, would provide a historic opportunity to promote Christian unity while bringing a message of peace and hope to Lebanon’s long-suffering people and the broader Middle East. Leo

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a fresh blow Tuesday with two of his former prime ministers sharply distancing themselves from him as he faced growing pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government. Édouard Philippe was Macron’s first prime minister after

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, SETH BORENSTEIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers. The work

By SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Peace talks between Israel and Hamas resumed at an Egyptian resort city on Tuesday, the two-year anniversary of the militant group’s surprise attack on Israel that started the war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The second day

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Priscilla has strengthened to a Category 2 storm and could become a major hurricane Tuesday as it swirls off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said that Priscilla was about 260 miles (418 kilometers) west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, and about 230 miles (370 kilometers) south

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base of Mount Everest, and forced the closing of trails in a third. In neighboring Nepal, a South Korean climber died after getting caught in a storm while ascending a

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A cautious calm set in Tuesday morning in neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria after overnight clashes between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters. The violence came as tensions grow between the central government in Damascus and Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria. Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported

By ALON BERNSTEIN and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press REIM, Israel (AP) — Thousands of people converged on southern Israel on Tuesday to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war, while Israel and Hamas pressed on with indirect peace talks in Egypt.

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday at a time when one of the world’s most durable and amicable alliances has been fractured by Trump’s trade war and annexation threats. Carney’s second visit to the White House