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UN: Fresh gang violence in Haiti leaves 187 dead in 11 days

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New clashes between gangs in Haiti's capital and beyond have killed at least 187 people in less than two weeks and injured more than 150 others, the U.N. said Tuesday. The fresh wave of violence recorded from Feb. 27 to March 9 in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and ...

Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn't ready for a massive onslaught of cases. Hospitals turned away ambulances, crematoriums burned bodies around the clock, and relatives hauled dead loved ones ...

African nations consider swapping debt for climate funding

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ...

Russia targets Nobel Peace Prize rights group with raids

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities on Tuesday raided the homes and offices of multiple human rights advocates and historians with the prominent rights group Memorial that won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. The wave of searches, after which ...

Drought in Spain’s northeast empties reservoirs

By EMILIO MORENATTI Associated Press VILANOVA DE SAU, Spain (AP) — The medieval church of Sant Romà disappeared from view in the 1960s, when the town of Vilanova de Sau, an hour north of Barcelona, was flooded to create a reservoir. In the past three decades, its spectral belltower has ...

Google suspends Chinese shopping app amid security concerns

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Google has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo on its app store after malware was discovered in versions of the app from other sources. Google said in a statement Tuesday that it suspended the Pinduoduo app on the Google Play app ...

Killing of Kurds in northern Syria sparks protests, tensions

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Kurds took to the streets of the earthquake-ravaged Syrian town of Jinderis on Tuesday to protest the killing of four men as they lit a fire to celebrate the Kurdish new year the night before. The attack on the Kurdish ...

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the global attention from Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who is in Moscow to show support for Russia against the West over the ...

Putin hosts Xi in the Kremlin with imperial palace pageantry

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and China showcased their "no-limit friendship" on Tuesday during a pomp-laden Kremlin ceremony intended to further cement ties amid the fighting in Ukraine. After hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping over a seven-course private ...

French protests drag on after Macron’s pension plan push

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French garbage collectors, refinery workers and others were striking again on Tuesday against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force the divisive bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through without a vote in ...

World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change 's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday. But doing so requires quickly slashing nearly two-thirds of ...

Yemeni sides say deal reached to free nearly 900 prisoners

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's warring sides said Monday they agreed to release nearly 900 prisoners of war in a U.N.-brokered deal amid international efforts to end the yearslong conflict. The deal on a prisoner exchange capped 10 days of intensive talks in ...

Arrests as Kenya opposition leads anti-government protests

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least three Kenyan legislators and several protesters have been arrested and then released for participating in protests in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, in which opposition supporters demanded the resignation of President William ...

French government fights to survive 2 no-confidence motions

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France's government is facing a critical, maybe fatal, moment Monday with no-confidence motions filed by lawmakers furious that President Emmanuel Macron ordered the use of special constitutional powers to force through an ...

Will the Credit Suisse bank takeover calm financial fears?

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — In a bid to ease turmoil in the world financial system, Swiss authorities engineered a plan for the UBS bank to acquire its troubled smaller rival Credit Suisse at a marked-down price. It's another urgent attempt to fight ...

South Africans demonstrate and call for president to resign

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police on Monday monitored protests by the country's leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party, which is demanding the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The party urged all South Africans to participate in a ...

Strong earthquake kills at least 14 in Ecuador, 1 in Peru

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines. The U.S. ...

Top Israeli minister: ‘No such thing’ as Palestinian people

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A firebrand Israeli minister claimed there's "no such thing" as a Palestinian people as Israel's new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Prime ...

Facing arrest warrant, Russia’s Putin visits annexed Crimea

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war ...

Military: rocket fired from Gaza lands on southern Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward southern Israel Saturday evening. The rocket fell and exploded in an open area, triggering warning sirens in the Nahal Oz community to the east of Gaza City. There were no reports of ...