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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s semi-official media are reporting that authorities arrested an influential pro-reform activist, saying he conspired to act against state security. A report by the Fars news agency early on Saturday said activist Mostafa Tajzadeh was taken into custody and charged with “gathering data and conspiracy to act against the

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has died at the age of 89. Oprah confirmed in an Instagram post that her father died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday. “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath,” the

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who tried to cast himself as a progressive world leader but was blamed for some of Mexico’s worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100. Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Friends, neighbors and dignitaries have paid their respects to the family of Eduardo Uvaldo, one of the seven people who were killed in the attack on a July Fourth parade near Chicago. Uvaldo, who would have turned 70 on Friday, was a native of Mexico

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — In a joint statement, the European Union’s Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have expressed support for the candidacy of both Albania and North Macedonia to join the European Union. The two diplomats welcomed a compromise proposal by French

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Protesters broke into the Sri Lankan prime minister’s private residence and set it on fire, hours after he said he would resign when a new government is formed, in the biggest day of angry demonstrations on Saturday that also saw crowds storming the president’s home

BERLIN (AP) — A techno parade whose initiators include the founder of the Love Parade, once a popular annual party in Berlin, took to the streets of the German capital Saturday with calls for the city’s electronic music culture to be added to a World Heritage list. The “Rave the Planet” parade set out from

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, blamed for massacres in Mexico half a century ago, has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Saturday. In his Twitter account, López Obrador sent condolences to Echeverria’s family and friends “in the name of the government of Mexico,” but

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s governing center-right Reform Party has reached a tentative deal to form a coalition government with two other parties. The new government will be led by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. The deal ends a month-long political stalemate in the Baltic nation of 1.3 million people. Kallas, the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister tipped to be a frontrunner in the Conservative Party’s leadership race ruled himself out of the contest Saturday. Defense Minister Ben Wallace said after “careful consideration” and discussion with colleagues and family, he will not be running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It would have been something never quite before seen in America — a defeated president, Donald Trump, standing at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a mob of supporters, some armed, contesting the election outcome. Trump intended to go there that day. His allies had

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are raising “true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, despite assessments they were taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while another Ukrainian official urged people in Russian-occupied southern areas to evacuate quickly “by all possible means” before a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

BERLIN (AP) — A techno parade whose initiators include the founder of the Love Parade, once a popular annual party in Berlin, took to the streets of the German capital Saturday with calls for the city’s electronic music culture to be added to a world heritage list. The “Rave the Planet” parade set out on

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Bobby Shapiro ran down Central Avenue in socks, moving toward the street corner where gunfire had erupted just moments before. At first, he only wanted to confirm that what he was hearing was real — a mass shooting at a July 4 parade

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister agreed to resign on Saturday after party leaders in Parliament demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the president’s residence and office in a fury over a worsening economic crisis. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press THIRA, Greece (AP) — Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini’s world-famous volcanic cliffs. Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A top police official on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally, raising questions how could the attacker get so close behind him. Abe was shot in

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A top court in Slovenia has ruled that bans on same-sex couples getting marrying and adopting children are unconstitutional in the small European country. Constitutional Court judges ruled 6-3 on both issues Friday, saying that Slovenia’s laws allowing only opposite-sex marriages and adoptions violated a constitutional prohibition against discrimination. The court