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MADRID (AP) — An explosion in a building in Madrid injured 25 people, two of them seriously, emergency services for the Spanish capital said Saturday. Spanish news agency EFE said that firefighters suspect that the explosion was caused by a gas leak, but police were still investigating its cause. Firefighter chief Javier Romero said that

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra said that Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his West Bank home on Saturday, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone. Israeli settlers attacked his village, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told The Associated Press. He

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Anti-government protesters and supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic held parallel rallies throughout Serbia on Saturday, reflecting a deep political crisis in the Balkan country following more than 10 months of protests against the populist government. Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party recently started organizing its own demonstrations to counter persistent student-led protests that

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel’s attack on Hamas operatives in Qatar that has upended efforts to broker an end to the conflict. Rubio told reporters

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A shooting by a criminal gang at a pool hall in northern Ecuador killed at least seven people and four others wounded, police said on Saturday. It was the second such attack in less than a month in the same city during a wave of violence in the Andean country. The

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and allied aircraft were deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace Saturday because of a threat of drone strikes in neighboring areas of Ukraine, and the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed, authorities said. The alert lasted around two hours. It came after multiple Russian

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said Saturday they reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan. They gave no details of a detainee swap and the White House did not comment on the meeting in Kabul or the

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided three hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border in the past two days, triggering fierce clashes that killed 19 soldiers and 45 militants, the military said Saturday. The death toll underscores the struggles that Pakistan faces as it tries to

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum. Trump posted on his social media site that NATO’S

By BRIAN MELLEY and JOANNA CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 110,000 people and became unruly on Saturday as a small group of his supporters clashed with police officers who were separating them from counterprotesters. Several officers were punched, kicked and struck by

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities lifted the curfew in the country’s capital and surrounding areas on Saturday as calm returned following the appointment of the Himalayan nation’s first woman prime minister in the wake of protests this week that killed at least 51 people and collapsed the government. In

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Archeologists studying ancient civilizations in northern Iraq during the 1930s also befriended the nearby Yazidi community, documenting their daily lives in photographs that were rediscovered after the Islamic State militant group devastated the tiny religious minority. The black-and-white images ended up scattered among the 2,000 or so

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and MAYUKO ONO Associated Press KOYAGI, Japan (AP) — Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan’s largest World War II prison camps visited on Saturday the site where their loved ones were held in Nagasaki to pay tribute

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A barrage of airstrikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza City as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to evacuate, medical staff reported Saturday. The dead included 12 children, according to the morgue in Shifa Hospital, where the bodies were