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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world. The British Antarctic Survey said Monday that it was a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it drifts out of Antarctic waters. The RRS Sir

PARIS (AP) — France’s National Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to protect young people drawn to their flavors and mitigate the environmental impacts of the disposable products known as “puffs.” Lawmakers adopted the bill by 104 votes in favor, zero against. It will then move

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly has flown to Rwanda to try to revive a stalled plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country. The U.K. government said Cleverly will meet his Rwandan counterpart, Vincent Biruta, on Tuesday. Britain and Rwanda struck a deal in April 2022 for some migrants who

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what’s overheating the planet: fossil fuels. As scientists, activists and United Nations officials repeatedly

BERLIN (AP) — Munich Airport has temporarily suspended flight operations due to freezing rain as cold weather continues to affect the region. All flights were either canceled or postponed on Tuesday morning, with the airport warning that many flights scheduled for later in the day might also be affected by the severe weather conditions. Tuesday’s

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza’s second largest city early Tuesday, as ambulances and private cars came racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war in Gaza. Under U.S. pressure to

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics is playing out in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal charges. Seven individuals are also facing charges from the Tokyo

By FU TING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist. Even his name is politically sensitive, the Melbourne-based amateur comedian tells audiences, setting up a joke about a group

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A massive explosion at a duplex where police were investigating reports of shots fired shook a Washington, D.C, suburb Monday and destroyed the home. All officers escaped serious injury but it was unclear what happened to the suspect who was inside the home when it was

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry on Tuesday challenged the British government’s decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States. The Duke of Sussex wants protection when he

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on the Big Island of Hawaii was felt widely but there have been no reports of damage or injury. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the earthquake hit at 5:54 p.m. Monday near the Kilauea volcano. Officials say the initial quake and a magnitude 3.0 aftershock were not

BANGKOK (AP) — A bus has crashed in western Thailand, killing 14 people and injuring more than 30 others. Officials said the accident occurred early Tuesday in Prachuap Khiri Khan province as the bus was traveling from the capital, Bangkok, to Songkhla province in the deep south. It was carrying 49 people when it ran

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb went off near a school in the country’s northwest on Tuesday, wounding at least three passersby and damaging windows of a nearby bank and several shops The bombing happened in the commercial center of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, a spokesman