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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — While Europe is pushing back publicly against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the language appears softer behind the scenes. Trump published a text message on Tuesday that he received from French President Emmanuel Macron, confirmed as genuine by Macron’s office. Starting with “My friend,” Macron’s tone

By ELENA BECATOROS and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians have been struggling for nearly two weeks with the longest, most comprehensive internet shutdown in the history of the Islamic Republic — one that has not only restricted their access to information and the outside world, but is also throttling

By ADIL JAWAD and MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The bodies of five more people were recovered on Tuesday from the scene of last weekend’s massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan’s largest city, bringing the confirmed death toll to 28, officials said. The search for dozens of people reported missing

By WILL WEISSERT, JAMEY KEATEN and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pledge to provoke a sweeping tariff fight with Europe to get his way in taking control of Greenland has left many of America’s closest allies warning of a rupture with Washington capable of shattering the NATO alliance that had

By SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region. Crews began bulldozing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ’s offices

By KAMILA HRABCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gave no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack that authorities say was inspired by the Islamic State group. The gun laws create new restrictions on gun

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national. The cause of the blast was still under investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The militant group said in a

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A startled British government on Tuesday defended its decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the plan, which his administration had previously supported. Trump said that relinquishing the remote Indian Ocean archipelago, home to a strategically important American

By ANNIE RISEMBERG and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The triumphant Senegal team arrived in Dakar just after midnight Tuesday following the tense Africa Cup of Nations final that saw the players briefly walk off the pitch to protest a penalty decision deep into second-half stoppage time. The players were greeted by

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces abandoned a camp Tuesday in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group, and the Syrian military said that allowed detainees to escape. Hours later, the Syrian government and the SDF announced

By JOSEPH WILSON and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Barcelona commuter train crashed Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, Spanish regional authorities said, killing at least one person and injuring 37 others. The crash in Catalonia in northeastern Spain came just two days after a separate deadly train

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more heavy-handed response to endemic