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Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

Oct. 10, 2024 10:57 AM EDT

The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. But instead of a work-study program in fields like hospitality and catering, some of them learned...

NATO will start an annual nuclear exercise as Russia threatens Ukraine's Western backers

Oct. 10, 2024 07:52 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will hold a long-planned major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief said Thursday, a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on his country. ...

Takeaways from an AP investigation of Russia recruiting Africans to make drones for use in Ukraine

Oct. 10, 2024 00:24 AM EDT

About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine. In interviews with The Associated Press, some of the women said they were...

Trump-Putin ties are back in the spotlight after new book describes calls

Oct. 09, 2024 17:26 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book's assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their politically fraught relationship and on Trump's sustained dialogue...

Zelenskyy will present his Ukraine 'victory plan' to Western leaders but Biden meeting is postponed

Oct. 09, 2024 15:07 PM EDT

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — Ukraine's president on Wednesday said he intends to present his “victory plan” to Western leaders this week, but a weekend meeting to discuss it has been postponed as U.S. President Joe Biden said he had to stay home to respond to Hurricane Milton’ s landfall in...

Editorial Roundup: United States

Oct. 09, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 6 The Washington Post on Hurricane Helene, FEMA and misinformation An underwater arts district. Health-care workers and patients stranded on hospital rooftops....

Czech Republic and Poland call on EU to do more to tackle irregular migration

Oct. 09, 2024 10:36 AM EDT

PRAGUE (AP) — The prime ministers of Czech Republic and Poland said Wednesday that the European Union has to do more to tackle unauthorized migration and condemned the practice of renewing border checks among the bloc's 27 member states. “We have agreed that it’s necessary to...

Woodward book reveals Trump's calls with Putin and Biden's private remarks on Obama and Netanyahu

Oct. 09, 2024 08:21 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book, “War." The famed Watergate...

Biden makes rare dip into battleground state fray with visits to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin

Oct. 08, 2024 20:56 PM EDT

BRYN MAWR, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden made a rare jump into the 2024 political battleground fray since taking a step back after ending his reelection bid. He campaigned Tuesday in Pennsylvania for a close ally after having stopped in Wisconsin to spotlight a signature...

US scrambled to urge Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Woodward book says

Oct. 08, 2024 17:08 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Months into Russia's war in Ukraine, the United States had intelligence pointing to “highly sensitive, credible conversations inside the Kremlin” that President Vladimir Putin was seriously considering using nuclear weapons to avoid major battlefield losses, journalist Bob...