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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has dismissed the prime minister and replaced him with the head of his cabinet ahead of national elections next year and at a time when economic anxieties are running high. The state news agency says the outgoing prime minister will be replaced by Mohamed Laboui, a 73-year-old

By MOSHE EDRI Associated Press KFAR AZZA, Israel (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie on Sunday visited Israel, saying the U.S. must stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel in its war against the Hamas militant group. Christie toured a kibbutz that was ravaged in the Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas militants that triggered the

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since 2008’s “Iron Man,” the Marvel machine has been one of the most unstoppable forces in box-office history. Now, though, that aura of invincibility is showing signs of wear and tear. The superhero factory hit a new low with the weekend launch of “The Marvels,”

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. The clashes came as skirmishes between the Iran-backed group and Israeli military continue to intensify along the Lebanon-Israel border, threatening to escalate into another front in the

BERLIN (AP) — Five U.S. servicepeople were killed when a military helicopter crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea during a training mission, U.S. officials said Sunday. The military’s European Command said all five crew members on board were killed when the aircraft went down “during a routine air refueling mission as part of military training.”

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital. Thunberg was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Activists protesting corporate profits, environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war are among those planning to march in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, united in their opposition to a global trade summit that will draw President Joe Biden and leaders from nearly two dozen

NEW YORK (AP) — English-language editions of a Vietnamese novel set everywhere from Saigon to Paris and of poetry by Egypt’s Iman Mersal are this year’s winners of National Translation Awards. The awards were announced Sunday by the American Literary Translators Association, which is marking the awards’ 25th anniversary. Thuân’s novel “Chinatown,” translated from the

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital rejected Israel’s claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve captured the third of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month. The FBI and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office say 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell was captured Sunday morning at a home in Augusta. The sheriff’s office says large quantities of drugs also were found at

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins says Higgins will announce his departure from Congress after 19 years. The Buffalo-area Democrat has scheduled a news conference for mid-morning Sunday. In an interview with The Buffalo News published Sunday, Higgins says he has grown frustrated with the House of Representatives. He did

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom. The event passed without incident despite fears that 0tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony. London’s Metropolitan Police Service deployed more than double the usual number of officers

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Officials say a part of an under-construction road tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state popular with tourists has collapsed after a landslide, trapping more than 30 workers. Manohar Tamta, an Uttarakhand state relief official, said rescue work is in progress and oxygen is being pumped