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By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Congo of supporting rebels opposed to his government in an escalation of tensions with a neighbor who in turn accuses Rwandan authorities of supporting a violent rebel group which recently captured a town in eastern Congo. Kagame said Monday in

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has hosted its first high-level regional meeting since the army took power last year, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from Mekong Delta nations attending. State broadcaster MRTV says Wang met with his colleagues from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation group meeting

BERLIN (AP) — New figures show that Germany recorded its first monthly trade deficit since 1991 in May because of higher import prices. The Federal Statistical Office said exports reached 125.8 billion euros last month, while imports came in at 126.7 billion euros. The seasonally adjusted figures resulted in a foreign trade deficit of almost

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the Brazilian Catholic cardinal who inspired Pope Francis to pick his name after the 2013 conclave, died on Monday at age 87. He was one of the country’s main religious leaders and a strong advocate for the poor. Sao Paulo archbishop, Cardinal Odilo

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LUGANO, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the reconstruction of his country will become the “common task of the entire democratic world” after the war with Russia ends. The video comments came at a “Ukraine Recovery Conference” in Switzerland on Monday. Ukraine’s prime minister Denys Shmyhal laid out

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared victory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from their last remaining bulwark of resistance in the province. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin in a televised meeting Monday that Russian

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time. Landlords were lenient about rent payments during the first two years of the pandemic. Now, many are asking for back rent, and some are raising the current rent as well.

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have concluded that the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position. But they say it is too badly damaged to reach an absolute determination, and that there is “no reason

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a number of contests, many of which featured candidates arguing they best represented a continuation of policies favored by former President Donald Trump. While not on the ballot himself, Trump has played a

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has criticized the militant group Hezbollah for sending three unmanned aircraft over an Israeli gas installation. A statement from his office on Tuesday said that the Iran-backed group’s actions were “unacceptable” and renewed support for ongoing U.S.-mediated maritime border talks with Israel. The

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has dismissed rumors he plans to resign anytime soon and says that he hopes to visit Moscow and Kyiv after travelling to Canada later this month.  Francis also told Reuters in an interview published Monday that the idea “never entered my mind” to announce a planned retirement at the end

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Bonnie moved roughly parallel to Mexico’s Pacific coast, after crossing over Central America from the Caribbean dropping heavy rain but causing little damage. Forecasters say they expect the hurricane to stay well out to sea and pose no threat to land as it moves generally northwestward off the coast of

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A last-minute amendment to Virginia’s budget has blocked the planned release this summer of hundreds of inmates. The change affected the state’s earned sentence credit program, which was expanded in 2020. It allows inmates to shave off some time from their sentences for

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed. The man was convicted last Tuesday of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Thunderstorms hampered Monday the search for more than a dozen hikers who remained unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier in Italy broke off, sending an avalanche of ice, snow and rocks down the slope. Italy’s state TV said another body was

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Jair Bolsonaro’s hopes of winning a second term as Brazil’s president depend on getting more female support — and fast. Yet a man famed for macho bravado hasn’t shown any concerted strategy to do so. The election is just three months off and

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared victory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from their last remaining bulwark of resistance in the province. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin in a televised meeting Monday that Russian

LONDON (AP) — British military authorities are trying to find out who hacked the army’s social media accounts over the weekend, flooding them with cryptocurrency videos and posts related to collectible electronic art. The investigation was launched after authorized content on the army’s YouTube account was replaced with a video feed promoting cryptocurrencies that included

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors on Monday arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, almost exactly a year after he was gunned down in an Amsterdam street in an attack that shocked the Netherlands. The man, whose identity was not released, is

By JAN M. OLSEN and KARL RITTER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A gunman who killed three people when he opened fire in a crowded shopping mall acted alone and apparently selected his victims at random, Danish police said Monday, all but ruling out that the attack was related to terrorism. Authorities filed preliminary