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By ADAM SCHRECK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An adviser to Ukraine’s president says his country is determined to reclaim territory Russia is likely to annex following stage-managed voting in occupied areas.  In an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak insisted Wednesday that nothing would change

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors say a former Iowa State Patrol trooper who was captured on dash camera video hitting and knocking over a biker during a traffic stop in September 2017 has pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating the biker’s rights. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that 58-year-old Robert Smith

By MAJDI MOHAMMED Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least four Palestinians were killed and 44 wounded during an Israeli military raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said Wednesday troops arrived at the refugee camp to arrest two Palestinians

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protesters have marched in Rome and Milan, as well was other Italian cities, to defend the right to abortion in Italy, which they fear is under threat after a far-right party led in parliamentary elections. Organizers said Wednesday they feared Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who built a global COVID-19 website received this year’s Lasker award for public service. The Lasker Foundation, which gives out annual prizes for medical research, announced this year’s winners on Wednesday. The Johns Hopkins University researcher was honored for creating the website to

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Some 15 Griffon vultures from Spain have been released into the wild in Cyprus to help revive the island population that’s dropped to just 8-10 birds because of deliberate poisoning, conservationists said Wednesday. The LIFE with Vultures CY group said the large birds were initially brought to the east Mediterranean island

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., (AP) — Hurricane Ian’s most damaging winds began hitting Florida’s southwest coast Wednesday, lashing the state with heavy rain and pushing a devastating storm surge after strengthening to the threshold of the most dangerous Category 5 status. Fueled by warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss is under pressure to reverse announced tax cuts that have triggered a financial crisis in an already struggling economy. Demands are coming not just from the opposition, but from members of the governing Conservative Party. Conservative lawmakers watched with mounting alarm

BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have attempted to storm Baghdad’s Green Zone government area as the Iraqi parliament held session on the resignation of its speaker. Associated Press journalists saw those supporting al-Sadr waving flags as security forces gathered around them. They managed to break through a security barrier

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish official says the Nord Stream gas leaks in the Baltic Sea could emit the equivalent of one third of Denmark’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions. Kristoffer Böttzauw, head of the Danish Energy Agency, said the emissions from the three gas leaks on Nord Stream 1 and 2 correspond to

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California after the defeat of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge. Ian Benjamin Rogers, of Napa, pleaded

By ASHRAF KHALIL and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday his administration’s goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade was ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together toward achieving it. “I know we can do this,” Biden told an auditorium

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates are on trial in the Capitol attack on charges that include seditious conspiracy — a rarely used Civil War-era accusation that strikes to the heart of what prosecutors say happened that day. Stewart Rhodes

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer One member of Rabbi David Wolpe’s diverse congregation left because Wolpe would not preach sermons criticizing Donald Trump. Scores of others left over resentment with the synagogue’s rules for combating COVID-19. But Wolpe remains steadfast in his resolve to avoid politics when he preaches at Sinai Temple in Los

BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials said they had begun to restore some power Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island while devastating some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm. At least two people were

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the 27-nation bloc should impose “biting sanctions” on Russian trade and hit officials responsible for “sham referendums” held in parts of Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the Kremlin orchestrated referendums on joining Russia “are an illegal attempt to grab

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England took emergency action Wednesday to stabilize U.K. financial markets and head off a crisis in the broader economy after the government spooked investors with a program of unfunded tax cuts, sending the pound tumbling and the cost of government debt

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say a man was shot dead during anti-terror raids targeting a group of suspected right-wing extremists. The federal prosecutor’s office said a dozen searches were carried out in seven different municipalities as part of an investigation into “the preparation of a terrorist attack and the violation of the legislation on

By SALAR SALIM Associated Press KOYA, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others. The Kurdish Regional Government’s Health Ministry said the strikes Wednesday came as demonstrations continued to engulf the Islamic Republic after

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Volunteers have restored 51 gravestones of children who lived and died in the late 1800s and early 1900s at the Home for Destitute Children in Vermont’s largest city. The small headstones are in the scenic and historic Lakeview Cemetery. According to University of Vermont professor Meghan