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Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil's President-elect Luiz Incio Lula da Silva on Thursday named Amazon defender Marina Silva as environment minister for his incoming government, indicating he will prioritiz...

Dec 29, 2022

Israel swears in Netanyahu as PM of hard-line government

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel on Thursday swore in Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister of the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country's history. Netanyahu took the oath of of...

Dec 29, 2022

Vatican: Benedict XVI lucid, stable, but condition 'serious'

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was lucid, conscious and stable, but that his condition remains serious a day after officials revealed that the 95-year-ol...

Dec 29, 2022

Ukraine facing another Russian missile attack

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Authorities in Ukraine say several regions of the country, including its capital, were facing a Russian missile attack Thursday. Air raid sirens rang out in many regions of the co...

Dec 29, 2022

Northern California statue of meat-packing magnate beheaded

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The statue of a 19th-century Northern California rancher and meat-packing magnate was decapitated earlier this week, leaving investigators in the state's capital city scratch...

Dec 28, 2022

Kosovo Serbs to remove barricades that triggered tensions

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said late Wednesday that Serbs will start removing their barricades in Kosovo on Thursday in a move that could deescalate tensions that trig...

Dec 28, 2022

Report: Tenn has broken its lethal injection rules since '18

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection protocol ever since it was revised in 2018, resulting in multiple executions being conducted without proper testing, ac...

Dec 28, 2022

Prosecutors open investigation into Rep.-Elect George Santos

NEW YORK (AP) - Long Island prosecutors have launched an investigation into U.S. Rep.-elect George Santos of New York, after revelations surfaced that the now-embattled Republican lied about his herit...

Dec 28, 2022

Judge orders another long prison term in Gov. Whitmer plot

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A Delaware trucker described as a co-leader of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's governor has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison. Barry Croft Jr. was the fourt...

Dec 28, 2022

Netanyahu government: West Bank settlements top priority

JERUSALEM (AP) - Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming hard-line government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its list of priorities on Wednesday, a day before it's set to be sworn into office....

Dec 28, 2022