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1 dead and 76 injured in a bus crash on a major highway in southeastern Czech Republic

Two buses collided Monday on a Czech highway in the southeast of the country, killing one of the bus drivers and injuring 76, officials said. The regional rescue service said the accident took place n...

Jul 17, 2023

Trial begins for former New Mexico athletics director on embezzlement charges

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Jury selection began Monday in the trial of former University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs on embezzlement charges. Krebs left the university in 2017 amid questi...

Jul 17, 2023

Pod of 55 pilot whales die after being stranded on a beach in Scotland

LONDON (AP) - A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday. Marine rescuers, ...

Jul 17, 2023

Police investigating the Gilgo Beach killings have searched a Long Island storage facility

AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend, po...

Jul 17, 2023

Lack of funding forces UN to slash food program in Haiti amid a surge in malnutrition

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.N.'s World Food Program announced Monday that it is facing a shortage of funds and won't be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assista...

Jul 17, 2023

Pope Benedict's ex-secretary won't get a permanent job in his new German archdiocese

BERLIN (AP) - The longtime secretary to the late Pope Benedict XVI won't be given a permanent job in the German archdiocese where he has settled, but will lead regular services at Freiburg's cathedral...

Jul 17, 2023

UN says the Taliban have further increased restrictions on Afghan women and girls

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Taliban authorities have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan in recent months, including in education and employment, the U.N. said in a report on the hum...

Jul 17, 2023

German captain in a migrant rescue standoff will run for the European Parliament

BERLIN (AP) - Carola Rackete, who as captain of a humanitarian rescue ship was arrested in 2019 for docking in an Italian port without authorization, was presented Monday as one of a struggling German...

Jul 17, 2023

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy lists Senators Cruz, Lee as possible Supreme Court picks

Biotech entrepreneur and Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday released a list of 16 people he'd nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court or federal appellate courts if he becomes presid...

Jul 17, 2023

China criticizes the upcoming US visit of Taiwan's 'separatist' presidential front-runner

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - China has criticized an upcoming stopover in the United States by Taiwan's vice president and presidential front-runner William Lai as a challenge to its territorial integrity, w...

Jul 17, 2023