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By COLLEEN BARRY and DANIELA PETROFF AP Fashion Writers MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, died Thursday, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. Armani died at home, “peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones,” the fashion house said. “Indefatigable to

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday. The shallow, 6.0-magnitude quake struck the mountainous and remote eastern part of the country late Sunday, leveling

By WAFAA SHURAFA, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their incompatible demands for ending the fighting sparked by the militant group’s 2023

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press ROSTOCK, Germany (AP) — Germany is leading a major military exercise that focuses on moving troops and equipment to Lithuania as tensions with Russia on the eastern fringe of NATO simmer. The German military leadership joined ambassadors of the Baltic nations and officers from other countries in the port of

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia. Macron spoke after a meeting in Paris of the so-called “coalition

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Lorena is weakening and was expected to revert to a tropical storm Thursday, forecasters said, adding there’s still a risk of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides for parts of Mexico’s west coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center also issued watches for parts of the U.S. Southwest, where heavy rainfall from Lorena

LONDON (AP) — The man accused of ramming his car into a parade of Liverpool soccer fans in May as the team was celebrating its Premier League triumph pleaded not guilty Thursday to the 31 charges that he’s facing. Paul Doyle, 53, is facing 18 counts of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent,

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Relentless monsoon rains have unleashed some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades across northern India, killing at least 90 people and displacing hundreds of thousands in recent weeks, government officials said. India’s Himalayan Mountain states and territories such as Uttarakhand, Himachal

By ASIM TANVEER and BABAR DOGAR Associated Press MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (AP) — Rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. The latest evacuations bring the total number of people displaced since last month

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the Red Sea on Thursday, officials said, as the militants increase their missile fire targeting Israel. The attack off the coast of Hodeida follows an Israeli strike last week that killed the rebels’

By KEN MORITSUGU and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing on the sidelines of festivities commemorating the end of World War II, state media said Thursday. Xi and Kim, along with top officials

By DAVID RISING Associated Press MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Thae Mama Swe stood atop a pile of earthquake rubble in the monsoon rain as she watched an excavator below tear away at the concrete and rebar, while a second machine scooped the wreckage away. It has been a daily ritual for the 47-year-old seamstress for