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By GHAITH ALSAYED and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — Syria ‘s government on Monday started evacuating Bedouin families trapped inside the southern city of Sweida, where deadly fighting between Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters has largely stopped as a ceasefire takes told. Last week’s clashes killed hundreds and threatened to unravel

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election defeat left his coalition with a minority in both parliamentary chambers and triggered calls for his resignation. Ishiba’s ruling Liberal

By EMMA BURROWS and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months hours before Britain and Germany chaired a meeting Monday to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for NATO allies to provide Ukraine with weapons. The drone and missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, killed

By LAURIE KELLMAN, DMYTRO ZHYHINAS and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press Rachel Ganz’s husband might be alive. But he might not be. More than three months after he was last seen near the Eleven Point River in Missouri amid severe flooding and evacuation orders, Jon Ganz is just … missing. That leaves Rachel, 45, in a

By GRACEY WAKARI Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia responding to a ferry that caught fire and killed at least three people said Monday they had rescued 575 people — far more than originally reported — and that two people were still missing. The KM Barcelona V-A caught fire Sunday in the

By GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Sunday extradited to the United States the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is “Fito,” escaped from a prison in Ecuador last year and was recaptured late

By The Associated Press Russia is open to peace with Ukraine, but achieving its goals remains a priority, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday, days after U.S. President Donald Trump gave Moscow a 50-day deadline to agree to a ceasefire or face tougher sanctions. Peskov and other Russian officials have repeatedly rejected accusations from Kyiv

BERLIN (AP) — Police in northwestern Germany on Sunday said that several people were injured when a car veered off a road, hit a 7-year-old boy on a trampoline and went flying into a barn roof on its side. Police said that the car first collided with a parked vehicle in the town of Bohmte,

LONDON (AP) — A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the Royal Opera House in London as cast members were taking their bows following the season’s final performance of “Il Trovatore.” Images posted on social media show what appears to be a member of the chorus holding the