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The US is making its biggest push yet to get Israel and Hamas to halt fighting. Is it succeeding?

Jun. 07, 2024 18:43 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In Middle East capitals, at the United Nations, from the White House and beyond, the Biden administration is making its most concentrated diplomatic push of the eight-month-old war in Gaza to persuade Israeli and Hamas leaders to take a proposed deal that would bring a...

Slovaks and others go to the polls in EU elections under the shadow of an assassination attempt

Jun. 08, 2024 04:24 AM EDT

PRAGUE (AP) — Voters in Slovakia, Italy and other European Union nations are casting their ballots Saturday on the third day of elections for the European Parliament, with populist and far-right parties looking to make gains across the 27-member bloc. In Slovakia, the election was...

Rishi Sunak's D-Day departure is just the latest in a long line of gaffes in UK election campaigns

Jun. 08, 2024 03:25 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party's general election campaign. Though Sunak apologized for not attending Thursday's...

Macron is hosting Biden for a state visit as the two leaders try to move past trade tensions

Jun. 08, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden is being feted by French President Emmanuel Macron with a state visit Saturday, as the two allies aim to show off their partnership on global security issues and move past trade tensions. Biden and Macron attended ceremonies marking the 80th...

Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia advance

Jun. 07, 2024 15:14 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologized to Ukraine for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make gains on the battlefield. Biden met in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who...

UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights in armed conflict

Jun. 08, 2024 01:45 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states...

Hunter Biden's daughter Naomi testifies about her father in his federal gun trial, ending 1st week

Jun. 07, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden's daughter Naomi testified Friday in his federal gun trial about visiting her father while he was at a California rehab center, telling jurors that he seemed to be improving in the weeks before he bought the revolver in 2018. “I hadn’t seen...

Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash

Jun. 08, 2024 01:20 AM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He...

Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home

Jun. 08, 2024 01:11 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather,...

Demand for food delivery has skyrocketed. So have complaints about some drivers

Jun. 08, 2024 00:15 AM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches....

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Attacks in Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions leave 27 dead, Moscow-backed officials say

Jun. 08, 2024 05:38 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia-installed officials in the partially occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Luhansk say Ukrainian attacks left at least 27 people dead as Russia and Ukraine continued to exchange drone attacks overnight into Saturday. A Ukrainian attack Friday on the...

Russia jails French citizen detained on charges of collecting military data

Jun. 08, 2024 05:02 AM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Friday ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia be held in jail pending investigation and trial. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital on Thursday as tensions have flared between...

A man who reportedly assaulted the Danish prime minister to appear in a pre-trial custody hearing

Jun. 08, 2024 04:51 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man who reportedly assaulted the Danish Prime Minister in central Copenhagen will appear in a pre-trial custody hearing on Saturday, authorities said. Police confirmed “there has been an incident" with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday and...

Here are some key races to watch in the EU Parliament elections

Jun. 08, 2024 04:32 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the EU elections. Voters are casting ballots in two dozen languages in 27 countries with scores of different campaign issues. So here’s a look at some key places to watch in the June 6-9 elections for a new European Parliament. ...

Shooting near a Los Angeles college kills 1 and wounds 4, police say

Jun. 08, 2024 04:31 AM EDT

A shooting near a college in Los Angeles killed a man and wounded four other people Friday night, police said. Homicide detectives were involved in a shooting death investigation on the 800 block of Greenleaf Boulevard in Compton, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in...

Slovaks and others go to the polls in EU elections under the shadow of an assassination attempt

Jun. 08, 2024 04:24 AM EDT

PRAGUE (AP) — Voters in Slovakia, Italy and other European Union nations are casting their ballots Saturday on the third day of elections for the European Parliament, with populist and far-right parties looking to make gains across the 27-member bloc. In Slovakia, the election was...

A man who reportedly assaulted the Danish prime minister to appear in a pre-trial custody hearing

Jun. 08, 2024 04:14 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man who reportedly assaulted the Danish Prime Minister in central Copenhagen will appear in a pre-trial custody hearing on Saturday, authorities said. Police confirmed “there has been an incident” with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday and...

Rishi Sunak's D-Day departure is just the latest in a long line of gaffes in UK election campaigns

Jun. 08, 2024 03:25 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party's general election campaign. Though Sunak apologized for not attending Thursday's...

UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights in armed conflict

Jun. 08, 2024 01:45 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states...

Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash

Jun. 08, 2024 01:20 AM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He...