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Russia launches intense night attacks across Ukraine, targeting southern port city for second night
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia launched an intense series of night-time air attacks using drones and missiles against targets across Ukraine, and targeting the southern port city of Odesa for a second ni...
Jul 19, 2023
UK’s governing Conservatives face a reckoning with voters in 3 special elections
LONDON (AP) - Bad things may come in threes for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from voters this week. The U.K. is holding three special ...
Jul 19, 2023
Spain's political escape artist Pedro Sánchez has odds against him yet again in national election
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez has been prematurely counted out more than once in his relatively short but action-packed political career. Battered and bruised after seein...
Jul 19, 2023
Demolition of historic minaret in southern Iraq's Basra sparks outcry
BASRA, Iraq (AP) - For three centuries, the al-Siraji Mosque, with its minaret fashioned from weathered bricks and its pinnacle inlaid with blue ceramic tiles, was a distinctive feature of the city of...
Jul 19, 2023
Low-key Kiwis: New Zealand slow to embrace Women’s World Cup
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - International visitors are greeted at the arrivals hall in Auckland's airport by a display promoting the Women's World Cup with such detail it includes carpeting resemblin...
Jul 18, 2023
Low-key Kiwis: New Zealand slow to embrace Women’s World Cup
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - International visitors are greeted at the arrivals hall in Auckland's airport by a display promoting the Women's World Cup with such detail it includes carpeting resemblin...
Jul 18, 2023
Adrift for months, Australian and his dog lived on raw fish until Mexican fishermen rescued him
MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) - Lost at sea for months on a disabled catamaran, with no way to cook and no source of fresh water but the rain, Australian Timothy Shaddock said he expected to die. There was ...
Jul 18, 2023
12 MLB teams score in double digits for 1st time since 1894, when record 13 accomplished feat
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball had a night of offense not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs. Twelve teams tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most in one day, trailing on...
Jul 18, 2023
12 MLB teams score in double digits for 1st time since 1894, just shy of record 13 in 1884
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball had a night of offense not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs. Twelve teams tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most in one day, trailing on...
Jul 18, 2023
No winner in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing. Jackpot reaches $720 million
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Mega Millions jackpot has risen to an estimated $720 million after no winning ticket was sold - again. It's now one of two national lotteries with enormous jackpots but equally en...
Jul 18, 2023