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Protesters rally in Iran to mark 40 days since woman's death

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of a northwestern Iranian city on Wednesday to mark the watershed 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old M...

Oct 26, 2022

Kremlin: any talks about Griner swap must be confidential

MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin on Wednesday kept the door open for talks on a possible swap involving jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner but reiterated that any such discussions must be kept stric...

Oct 26, 2022

Kremlin: Putin monitors drills of Russia's nuclear forces

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday monitored drills of the country's strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles in a show o...

Oct 26, 2022

Fetterman, in debate with Oz, vows to 'keep coming back up'

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman acknowledged health challenges knocked him down but vowed to "keep coming back up" in the opening moments of his debate against Republican M...

Oct 25, 2022

LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a recording last year that captured city councilmembers' racist remarks was made illegally, the police chief said Tuesday. Disclosur...

Oct 25, 2022

Italy's Meloni easily wins confidence vote in parliament

ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. The vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies T...

Oct 25, 2022

Baryshnikov honors 'insanely brave' Putin opponent Navalny

NEW YORK (AP) - Ballet dancer, choreographer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, who famously defected from the Soviet Union nearly a half-century ago, called Alexei Navalny "insanely brave" as a human rig...

Oct 25, 2022

School gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammun...

Oct 25, 2022

Ash Carter, defense chief who opened jobs to women, dies

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ash Carter, who served as secretary of defense in the final two years of the Obama administration and opened military jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in t...

Oct 25, 2022

South Africa says Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. It is the highest-level effort yet to end...

Oct 25, 2022