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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Media reports say an Iranian fighter plane crashed near the central city of Isfahan after its engine failed, but both pilots survived. The pilots were taken Saturday to a local hospital. The official IRNA news agency says there was a technical failure in the engine of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat that

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has appealed to the organizers of this year’s documenta fifteen art show to do more to tackle the antisemitism allegations surrounding the event. The show, which takes place every five years in the German city of Kassel, is considered a major event in the international art calendar. It is curated

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban-appointed official says explosions and gunfire have ripped through a Sikh temple in Afghanistan’s capital, killing one person and wounding seven others. The spokesperson for the Interior Ministry says a gunbattle took place Saturday between the attackers and Taliban forces. A spokesman for the Kabul police

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and LORI HINNANT Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces on Friday, three months after she was taken captive on the streets of the city. Yuliia Paievska is

By KELVIN CHAN and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world” and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants have fired a rocket into southern Israel, shattering a two-month lull in violence at the Gaza-Israel border. That’s in contrast to soaring tensions in the occupied West Bank. The military says aerial defense systems intercepted the projectile early Saturday, which activated warning sirens in the southern

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man with an “edged weapon” attacked passengers inside a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Friday, leaving three with cuts and scrapes before he was arrested, authorities said. The man drove to the airport, went into the International Terminal, “walked around the departure terminal and pulled out an edged weapon”

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The dogs get the spotlight, but the upcoming Westminster Kennel Club show is also illuminating a human issue: veterinarians’ mental health. In conjunction with a first-time Veterinarian of the Year award that will be presented on the show’s final day Wednesday, the club is giving $10,000

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — An enslaved Black man, the tall tale he inspired and the beach that now bears his name are the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery along Massachusetts’ picturesque North Shore. As the story goes, Robin Mingo was promised freedom by his white

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban-appointed official says explosions and gunfire have ripped through a Sikh temple in Afghanistan’s capital. The spokesperson for the Interior Ministry says a gun battle took place Saturday between the attackers and Taliban forces. Videos posted on social media show plumes of black smoke rising from the temple, known as a

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press One by one, several of Donald Trump’s former top advisers have told a special House committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection that they didn’t believe his lies about the 2020 election, and that the former president knew he lost to Joe Biden. But instead of convincing Trump’s

By JULHAS ALAM and WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — At least 18 people have died as massive floods ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links, authorities said Saturday. In India’s Assam state, at least nine people were killed in the floods and 2 million saw

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer (217-mile) trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal. The purpose of the trail is to

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police said Friday that officers arrested seven unauthorized people in a congressional office building Thursday night and charged them with unlawful entry. The people identified themselves as being affiliated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Trump administration finding that the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup does not pose a serious health risk and is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans. The California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — After two days of deliberations in which they reached verdicts on nearly all of the questions put before them, jurors in a civil trial who were deciding on sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday. By the

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel, shattering a two-month lull that prevailed along Gaza-Israel fence in contrast to soaring tensions in the West Bank. The Israeli military says aerial defense systems intercepted the projectile early Saturday, which activated warning sirens in the southern coastal city of

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two Uvalde city police officers told a sheriff’s deputy that they passed up a fleeting chance to shoot the gunman for fear of hitting children outside an elementary school where the gunman killed 21 people. The gunman went on to enter Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24 and open

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two actors on the Netflix series The Chosen One were killed and six other cast or crew members were injured after a van crashed near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula. Local media reported that the crash occured Thursday, and said the van flipped after running off the road in