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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press Queen Margrethe II will become Denmark’s first monarch to abdicate in nearly 900 years when she hands over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik. Margrethe had always said during her 52-year-reign that she wouldn’t quit, but back surgery and other ailments left her unable to undertake as much

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was “speechless” by the severity and immense destruction of the disaster zone he saw during the helicopter ride on his first visit to the country’s north-central region of Noto since the deadly Jan. 1 earthquakes, amid worries about spreading diseases

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a suicide bomber targeted the provincial governor’s office in western Afghanistan and wounded three security guards. The spokesman for the Taliban’s interior minister says the attacker detonated his suicide vest as he was shot by security guards while trying to enter inside the governor’s compound in Zaranj, the

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Saturday that Texas denied federal agents access to a stretch of border when they were trying to rescue three migrants who drowned. The federal government’s account came hours after U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said the Texas Military Department and Texas

LONDON (AP) — A volcano erupted in southwestern Iceland Sunday for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock toward a nearby settlement. The eruption just before 8 a.m. came after a swarm of earthquakes near the town of Grindavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The community was evacuated overnight. A crack

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani army says an explosive device has killed five soldiers in the southwest of the country. It’s the fifth deadly attack on police and troops this year already, and comes weeks before Pakistan holds parliamentary elections. The troops died on Saturday in Baluchistan province when suspected militants detonated an improvised device

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Top foreign policy advisers from Western countries, Ukraine and others are meeting to help push forward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s peace formula that aims to end Russia’s war on his country. The fourth such meeting of national security advisers takes place in the Swiss town of

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say four people have been found dead in another suspected drowning of migrants trying to cross the dangerous English Channel from northern France. French maritime authorities for the English Channel and the North Sea said the drama happened in the early hours of Sunday north of the French coastal town

SYDNEY (AP) — For the first time, Australians find themselves on the brink of witnessing one of their own, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, rise to the rank of queen when her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, is proclaimed king of that European nation. He will become King Frederik X of Denmark on Sunday, two weeks

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of members of India’s main opposition Congress party and its supporters have begun a 2-month cross-country march ahead of a crucial national vote this year. The march is led by Rahul Gandhi, scion of the influential Gandhi family. India is expected to vote in a national election in April or

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan on Sunday condemned what it said were “fallacious comments” by China following the self-governing island’s presidential and parliamentary election the previous day. The verbal sparring did not bode well for the future of Taiwan’s relations with China under the winner, President-elect Lai Ching-te, or for China’s relations with the United

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region. The launch was the

TOKYO (AP) — An All Nippon Airways domestic flight turned back to Japan’s northern airport of Sapporo after a crack was found on the cockpit window, according to the airline and media reports. ANA Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport in central Japan on Saturday but had to return to the New Chitose

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in its first missile launch this year, as the North is expected to further raise regional animosities in an election year for its rivals South Korea and the United States. South