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4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine

HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...

Mar 19, 2022

Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...

Mar 19, 2022

China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year

BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...

Mar 18, 2022

Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican who was the longest-serving current member of Congress, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night...

Mar 18, 2022

Syria's Assad visits UAE, 1st trip to Arab country since war

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011. In ...

Mar 18, 2022

Parent convicted in college bribery case asks to remain free

BOSTON (AP) - The head of a private equity firm and former Staples Inc. executive convicted of bribery and fraud charges for trying to pay more than $1.2 million to buy his three children's way into e...

Mar 18, 2022

Spain changes stance, backs Moroccan rule in Western Sahara

MADRID (AP) - Spain on Friday declared "a new stage" in its strained relations with Morocco after the Spanish prime minister wrote to the Moroccan king, agreeing that having Western Sahara operate aut...

Mar 18, 2022

Defense challenges witness in Lorenzen Wright murder trial

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A defense attorney for a man charged with fatally shooting former NBA player Lorenzen Wright attempted to poke holes Friday in the testimony of a convicted killer who said Wright...

Mar 18, 2022

UN: 6.5 million people displaced inside Ukraine due to war

GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. migration agency said Friday that nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million who have already fled the country. The estimates from t...

Mar 18, 2022

In video call, Biden presses China's Xi on Russia support

WASHINGTON (AP) - Key figures for a war half a world away, President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping spoke for nearly two hours on Friday as the White House looked to deter Beijing from providing mil...

Mar 18, 2022