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An AP reporter spends the night locked inside Jerusalem’s holiest church with clergy and pilgrims
JERUSALEM | The enormous doors were pushed shut, the clanking bolts secured from the outside and several clergy, pilgrims and one journalist — me — were locked for the night inside one of Christianity’s holiest sites in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built over the spots where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, […]
The US and Canada could pull back from an all-out trade war. It’s not clear that they will
WASHINGTON | The U.S. and Canada have ramped up their trade war, hitting each other with steep new tit-for-tat tariffs. Despite the bravado coming from both sides of the border, though, analysts suspect the longtime allies will eventually strike a deal to end a conflict neither really wants. The prospects for compromise looked bleak Tuesday, […]
Republican with same name as incumbent Dan Sullivan advances from Alaska US Senate primary
JUNEAU, Alaska | A candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent U.S. senator has advanced to the general election in what will be one of the most closely watched races in the country this fall. Dan J. Sullivan, who goes by Dan Sullivan, was among the top four finishers after the Aug. 18 primary […]
The Kremlin says the CIA director held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts
The Kremlin said Wednesday that CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ratcliffe did not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was informed of the […]
A women’s shelter for refugees in Poland fights for survival as anti-Ukrainian sentiment rises
KRAKOW, Poland | When Nastya Podorozhnya’s relatives fled the war in Ukraine for neighboring Poland, volunteers welcomed them with open arms. Podorozhnya, 29, was already living in Poland when the war began. But days before Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, she rushed back to Ukraine to help her sister and nieces get out. […]
Economists don’t expect reopening the US to Mexican cattle imports to reduce high beef prices
The U.S. reopened a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico on Monday as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce record-high beef prices, though economists doubt the move will mean much to grocery store shoppers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said concerns about the New World screwworm’s spread […]
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Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea
DAKAR, Senegal | Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another African nation that signed a third-country deporation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said […]
Denmark’s prime minister blasts unsolicited beauty advice from plastic surgeon on Instagram
COPENHAGEN, Denmark | Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is fed up with getting unsolicited beauty advice. The 48-year-old wrote Monday on Instagram that she had just returned back home from a trip to Ukraine, where she was exposed to air raid sirens in the ongoing war, only to find a message by a plastic surgeon […]
Pete Buttigieg returns to South Carolina as he weighs another White House run
ORANGEBURG, S.C. | The last time Pete Buttigieg was giving a political speech in South Carolina, it was to mark a distant finish in the state’s primary that effectively ended his campaign for president. Returning this weekend as he mulls a second run for the White House, Buttigieg set out to reintroduce himself to the […]