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Turkey’s Erdogan turns away reform-minded challenger to win another term

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOYMay 29, 2023 GMT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned away a challenger who sought to reverse his authoritarian-leaning changes, securing five more years to oversee the country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia that plays a key role in NATO.

Russia launched ‘largest drone attack’ on Ukrainian capital before Kyiv Day; 1 killed

By SUSIE BLANN and ELISE MORTONMay 28, 2023 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's capital was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia's war, local officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday.

China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race

May 29, 2023 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, which would be another advance in what's increasingly seen as a new space race.

The U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.

North Korea notifies neighboring Japan it plans to launch satellite in coming days

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HYUNG-JIN KIMMay 29, 2023 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — North Korea on Monday notified neighboring Japan that it plans to launch a satellite in coming days, which may be an attempt to put Pyongyang's first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit.

Thousands evacuated as Philippines warns of possible flooding, landslides from Typhoon Mawar

By JIM GOMEZMay 29, 2023 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials began evacuating thousands of villagers, shut down schools and offices and imposed a no-sail ban Monday as Typhoon Mawar approached the country’s northern provinces a week after battering the U.S.

New Greek parliament convenes, only to be dissolved as early as Monday

By DEMETRIS NELLASMay 28, 2023 GMT

ATHENS (AP) — Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early as Monday, ahead of fresh elections on June 25.

Right-wing populist Javier Milei gains support in Argentina by blasting ‘political caste’

By DANIEL POLITIMay 28, 2023 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist lie,” sex education is a ploy to destroy the family and that the Central Bank should be abolished.

In Nigeria’s hard-hit north, families seek justice as armed groups seek control

By CHINEDU ASADUMay 28, 2023 GMT

Associated Press (AP) — Christian Jonathan's mother was holding the 9-month-old boy in her arms when she was shot dead during an attack on their village in northwestern Nigeria. The assailants cut off one of Christian's fingers and abandoned him by the side of the road with a bullet wound in his tiny leg.

Migrants with children stuck at Poland’s border wall; activists say Belarus won’t let them turn back

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKAMay 29, 2023 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum, including small children, has been stuck at Poland's border wall with Belarus for three days, Polish human rights activists said Sunday.

US, Saudi Arabia call for warring sides in Sudan to extend ‘imperfect’ cease-fire

By SAMY MAGDYMay 28, 2023 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — The United States and Saudi Arabia called on warring sides in Sudan to extend a fragile cease-fire due to expire Monday, as weeks of fighting reached a stalemate in the capital and elsewhere in the African country.

Europe

Venice police investigate bright green liquid in Grand Canal

  • Spain swings right in local and regional elections

  • Tourist boat overturns on Italian lake, at least 1 dead; several missing

  • Cracks emerging in Europe's united front to battle climate change

  • As Turkey heads to runoff presidential race, domestic issues loom large

  • Spain swings right in local and regional elections

  • Tourist boat overturns on Italian lake, at least 1 dead; several missing

  • Cracks emerging in Europe's united front to battle climate change

  • As Turkey heads to runoff presidential race, domestic issues loom large

  • Spain swings right in local and regional elections

  • Tourist boat overturns on Italian lake, at least 1 dead; several missing

  • Cracks emerging in Europe's united front to battle climate change

  • As Turkey heads to runoff presidential race, domestic issues loom large

  • Asia

    Modi opponents boycott opening of new Indian Parliament; PM says it breaks with colonial past

    • 'He's home': Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia

    • South Korean arrested for opening plane emergency exit door, faces up to 10 years in prison

    • China's 1st domestically made passenger plane completes maiden commercial flight

    • Indian official suspended after he drains reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped while taking selfie

    • 'He's home': Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia

    • South Korean arrested for opening plane emergency exit door, faces up to 10 years in prison

    • China's 1st domestically made passenger plane completes maiden commercial flight

    • Indian official suspended after he drains reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped while taking selfie

  • 'He's home': Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia

  • South Korean arrested for opening plane emergency exit door, faces up to 10 years in prison

  • China's 1st domestically made passenger plane completes maiden commercial flight

  • Indian official suspended after he drains reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped while taking selfie

  • Latin America

    A growing number of LGBTQ+ Russians seek refuge from war, discrimination in Argentina

    • Farmer-turned-policeman is Mexico's eyes and ears at Popocatepetl volcano

    • Disgusted by racism targeting soccer's Vinícius, his Brazilian hometown rallies to defend him

    • Guatemala's top court ends candidacy of leading presidential hopeful 1 month before vote

    • Pope taps successor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, again says he might finally return home to visit

    • Farmer-turned-policeman is Mexico's eyes and ears at Popocatepetl volcano

    • Disgusted by racism targeting soccer's Vinícius, his Brazilian hometown rallies to defend him

    • Guatemala's top court ends candidacy of leading presidential hopeful 1 month before vote

    • Pope taps successor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, again says he might finally return home to visit

  • Farmer-turned-policeman is Mexico's eyes and ears at Popocatepetl volcano

  • Disgusted by racism targeting soccer's Vinícius, his Brazilian hometown rallies to defend him

  • Guatemala's top court ends candidacy of leading presidential hopeful 1 month before vote

  • Pope taps successor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, again says he might finally return home to visit

  • Middle East

    Oman's sultan arrives in Iran for two-day visit, meetings with Iranian president and top officials

    • EgyptAir flight from Cairo blows tire during landing in Saudi Arabia

    • Iraq announces plans for $17 billion transportation project linking Asia to Europe

    • UAE releases Lebanese detainees after death in custody raised allegations of mistreatment

    • Mass protests against Israeli government's plans to change legal system enter 21st week

    • EgyptAir flight from Cairo blows tire during landing in Saudi Arabia

    • Iraq announces plans for $17 billion transportation project linking Asia to Europe

    • UAE releases Lebanese detainees after death in custody raised allegations of mistreatment

    • Mass protests against Israeli government's plans to change legal system enter 21st week

  • EgyptAir flight from Cairo blows tire during landing in Saudi Arabia

  • Iraq announces plans for $17 billion transportation project linking Asia to Europe

  • UAE releases Lebanese detainees after death in custody raised allegations of mistreatment

  • Mass protests against Israeli government's plans to change legal system enter 21st week

  • Africa

    Sudan military ruler seeks removal of UN envoy in letter to UN chief, who is 'shocked' by the demand

    • Clashes between Senegal's police and supporters of opposition leader leave one dead, others hurt

    • More than 30 abducted women released in Cameroon; some tortured in captivity

    • Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

    • Rwandan genocide suspect appears in court holding Bible after 22 years on the run

    • Clashes between Senegal's police and supporters of opposition leader leave one dead, others hurt

    • More than 30 abducted women released in Cameroon; some tortured in captivity

    • Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

    • Rwandan genocide suspect appears in court holding Bible after 22 years on the run

  • Clashes between Senegal's police and supporters of opposition leader leave one dead, others hurt

  • More than 30 abducted women released in Cameroon; some tortured in captivity

  • Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

  • Rwandan genocide suspect appears in court holding Bible after 22 years on the run

  • Stock market today: Asian markets mostly higher after Biden-McCarthy deal on US debt

    By ELAINE KURTENBACHMay 29, 2023 GMT

    Asian shares are mostly higher after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement on a deal to raise the U.S.

    Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress

    By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHELLE L. PRICEMay 29, 2023 GMT

    More coverage:

    • Debt ceiling tests Speaker McCarthy as he rides breezily through high-wire act of his career

    • What's next on the debt ceiling: Selling the plan and making a deal into a law

    Syrian state media: Suspected Israeli airstrikes target Damascus

    May 28, 2023 GMT

    BEIRUT (AP) (AP) — Airstrikes attributed to Israel targeted Syria's capital city late Sunday, the first such strikes in nearly a month, Syrian state media reported.

    Syrian air defenses responded to the strikes in the vicinity of Damascus and shot down some of them, state news agency SANA reported.

    Turkey’s Erdogan wins another term as president, extends rule into 3rd decade

    By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOYMay 28, 2023 GMT

    Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won reelection, according to unofficial results, in a victory that extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.

    Ukraine’s Kostyuk booed at French Open after no handshake with Belarus’ Sabalenka because of war

    By HOWARD FENDRICHMay 28, 2023 GMT

    PARIS (AP) — Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand Slam tournament's No.

    ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or; 3rd time female director wins top honor

    By JAKE COYLEMay 28, 2023 GMT

    Justine Triet's “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival's prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial.

    Pope Francis resumes regular appointments after canceling schedule with a fever

    May 27, 2023 GMT

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis resumed regular appointments on Saturday, one day after canceling his schedule due to a fever.

    Systems error affecting electronic gates leaves travelers to UK waiting for hours

    By DANICA KIRKAMay 27, 2023 GMT

    LONDON (AP) — Travelers arriving in the U.K. faced long delays Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic border gates at airports across the country for most of the day, forcing everyone to have their passports checked manually on what was expected to be one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.

    Florida man at center of fatal human smuggling case pleads not guilty in Minnesota

    May 27, 2023 GMT

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Florida man charged with human smuggling after four migrants were found dead last year near the Canadian border has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

    Man who opened emergency door on South Korea flight told police he felt suffocated

    By HYUNG-JIN KIMMay 27, 2023 GMT

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger who opened an emergency exit door during a flight in South Korea told police that he felt suffocated and tried to get off the plane quickly as it approached landing, reports said Saturday.

    Germany expects Russia to expel German diplomats, teachers, cultural staff

    By KIRSTEN GRIESHABERMay 27, 2023 GMT

    BERLIN (AP) — Russia will start expelling German diplomats, teachers and employees of German cultural institutions next month — a move that will further enhance tensions between the two countries that have already had very fraught ties since Russia invaded Ukraine early last year.

    CANNES PHOTOS: See standout moments of glamour, humor and reunion as the festival draws to a close

    May 27, 2023 GMT

    Avalanche in northern Pakistan kills 11 members of nomadic tribe

    By RIAZ KHANMay 27, 2023 GMT

    GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — A snowy avalanche in northern Pakistan killed 11 people Saturday, including a 4-year-old boy, and injured 25 from a nomadic tribe as they crossed a mountainous area with their goat herds, police said.

    Hong Kong denies knowledge about Uyghur student, slams Amnesty for saying he disappeared at airport

    By ZEN SOOMay 27, 2023 GMT

    HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong on Saturday criticized rights group Amnesty International’s accusation that a Uyghur student disappeared after being interrogated at the airport, and said that government records showed that he had not entered or been refused entry to the city.

    Polish president seeks experts’ advice on contentious law targeting opposition

    May 27, 2023 GMT

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Aides to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Saturday that his experts have begun analyzing a highly contentious law on Russia’s alleged influence in Poland, ahead of his decision on whether to sign it.

    Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis

    May 27, 2023 GMT

    CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo.

    The spaces were found in the sprawling necropolis of Saqqara, which is a part of Egypt’s ancient capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

    From ashes and debris, iconic Beirut museum reopens 3 years after massive damage from port blast

    By KAREEM CHEHAYEBMay 27, 2023 GMT

    BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in Beirut's port — set off by tons of improperly stored chemicals — reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes.

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