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Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official has claimed that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran executed him. It directly contradicts the country’s earlier announcement he had been put to death. The comment Tuesday by Asghar Jahangir comes after Germany shut down Iranian consulates over Sharmahd’s death. The judiciary’s Mizan

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters were deciding a hard-fought race for the state’s only U.S. House seat that could help decide control of that chamber. Tuesday’s election also asked them to decide whether to repeal the state’s system of open primaries and ranked choice general elections. The House race featuring Democratic U.S.

Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince William has gone on an early-morning nature walk near South Africa’s Table Mountain to promote the work of conservation rangers in a unique urban national park. On his walk on Tuesday, the Prince of Wales met with some of the rangers who guard the Table Mountain

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Rafael was chugging past western Jamaica on Tuesday and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it headed toward Cuba. The storm was located 70 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Tuesday morning. It had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph)

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany have arrested eight suspected members of a far-right militant organization. The public prosecutor says the suspects, some of them minors and adolescents, were allegedly part of a group of around 15-20 individuals called Saxonian Separatists that is characterized by racist, antisemitic and partially apocalyptic ideas. It said

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has won the West Virginia governor’s race. Morrisey beat Democratic Huntington Mayor Steve Williams to become just the third Republican elected to a first gubernatorial term in West Virginia since 1928. Outgoing two-term governor Jim Justice was first elected as a Democrat in 2016

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former Donald Trump aide is likely to win election to Congress from Georgia on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a longtime representative will be trying to clinch his 17th term in the House against a former Trump administration official. Those will be the two highest-profile congressional races in Georgia in an election

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Jim Justice has won a U.S. Senate race from West Virginia, flipping a seat to the Republican Party. Justice defeated Democrat Glenn Elliott for the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin. Justice is finishing up his second term as governor. He was elected as a Democrat in 2016,

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has won her reelection bid. The Georgia prosecutor brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. She defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer. Kramer had interned in the White House counsel’s office during the Trump presidency and is

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar is voting in a snap poll to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats. The measure is likely to pass and end its short-lived experiment in electing members of the country’s advisory Shura Council. Tuesday’s vote marks yet another rollback in the hereditarily

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, as Palestinians fled Israel’s assault. Some said they had hardly eaten, with aid cut off for weeks to the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory.