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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president to grant him a pardon during his long-running corruption trial that’s bitterly divided the country. In a statement Sunday the prime minister’s office said that Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The death toll in Hong Kong’s apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift memorial at the scene of the disaster, among the worst

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans will elect a new president Sunday while still grappling with U.S. Donald Trump’s sudden intervention in what was expected to be a close contest, the latest signal of the United States’ renewed interest in Latin America. Among the five presidential candidates on the ballot, polls

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his visit to Turkey on Sunday before heading to Lebanon, where he aimed to bring a message of hope to its long-suffering people and bolster a crucial Christian community in the Middle East. Leo had two key appointments

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The day before Honduras elects a new president, suddenly the main topics of conversation here shifted from domestic matters to U.S. President Donald Trump and the former Honduran president he said he will pardon. Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first

By The Associated Press Georgian authorities detained a prominent opposition figure Saturday on suspicion of trying to set fire to the Tbilisi City Court office building, the Interior Ministry said. Alexander Elisashvili, also known as Aleko, broke into the court chancellery building in the Georgian capital at dawn by smashing a window with a hammer,

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his

By JOSH BOAK and GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of

By DANIEL NIEMANN and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — A confident far-right Alternative for Germany set up its new youth organization on Saturday even as thousands of protesters converged on the western city of Giessen, where the party held its meeting, some of them clashing with police. A convention of the anti-immigration