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By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred concerns about the safety of other imprisoned dissidents. Putin has

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers to the National Assembly, the country’s parliament. The lawmakers will then choose a new government. Two moderate parties that have alternated in power for decades — the center-left

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment. Authorities have detained a man and woman who lived in the apartment and are believed to be the parents. The bottles were about a foot tall and the

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center where a 19-year-old Guinean allegedly hanged himself last month. Visiting opposition senators have decried “undignified” conditions for people ordered to leave Italy but awaiting repatriation. Italy’s 10 migrant repatriation centers have long

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly raped and killed her two other children, including a

By TERRY TANG Associated Press TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just don’t want to see how much we have to adjust,” Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only area in Arizona that

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited a poem objecting to Russia’s war in Ukraine. A low-profile woman committed to a psychiatric facility for condemning the invasion on social media. President Vladimir Putin’s

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia’s Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their colleagues are women, and it’s hurting the state. “There are exceptions to

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a packed U.N. commemoration Friday

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address the plans for providing aid to Gaza by sea, the Army’s 7th Transportation Brigade and other units were scrambling to pull equipment together. They received their orders before the speech:

By BILL BARROW, JEFF AMY and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The 2024 presidential election campaign picked up on Saturday where the 2020 contest left off. Or, more precisely, in a place where it never actually ended. Georgia was so close four years ago that Republican Donald Trump finds himself indicted here

DEWHURST, Wis. (AP) — A crash at a western Wisconsin highway intersection involving a semitrailer and a van has killed nine people. Clark County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy James Hirsch said in a Facebook post that preliminary reports indicated the semitrailer traveling on State Highway 95 on Friday morning collided with a van traveling on

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a fire and explosions that rocked a suburban Detroit building filled with vaping industry supplies are urging residents not to pick up any debris because they still pose potential hazards. One man was killed in the explosive blaze that sent gas canisters soaring miles away. Clinton Township officials

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Firefighters in Hawaii have gotten control of a large fire at a biomass plant on Kauai Island. KITV Island News reports crews were called to the plant at about 3:30 p.m. on Friday. They got the fire under control about two hours later. An image of the fire shows red flames