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Boris Johnson skeptical about Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday poured cold water on current premier Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal with the European Union, saying he would "find it hard" to vote for it in Parliament. Johnson said he hoped Sunak's deal would work, but argued that that ...

Nigeria opposition renews calls to overturn election result

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's opposition renewed calls for the election result to be overturned on Thursday, a day after the country announced its new president-elect, "We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians," third-place Labour Party candidate Peter Obi said at a news ...

Netanyahu denounces protesters after salon siege of his wife

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on Thursday denounced protesters as "anarchists" after they massed outside a Tel Aviv salon where his wife was getting her hair done — a chaotic end to a day of demonstrations against the government's plan to overhaul the ...

Brazil’s 4Q22 GDP contraction signals challenge for Lula

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's economy contracted last quarter for the first time in over a year, government data showed Thursday, in a downturn expected to complicate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first year in office. Latin America's largest economy shrank 0.22% in the final ...

At Gabon talks, a debate on who pays to save world’s forests

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A summit on how to protect the world's largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the world's most diverse species and contribute to limiting planet-warming ...

MI5 lost chance to stop Grande concert attack, inquiry finds

LONDON (AP) — Britain's domestic intelligence agency didn't act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England, an inquiry found Thursday. Retired judge John ...

Deadly Greek train crash prompts strike; relatives give DNA

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Family members lined up to give DNA samples in hopes of identifying victims of a train crash that killed nearly 60 people in Greece, as workers went on strike Thursday saying the rail system is outdated, underfunded and dangerous. The government has blamed human ...

Gunmen threaten Messi, shoot up family-owned supermarket

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gunmen threatened Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a written message left Thursday when they opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina, police said. Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants ...

Firefighters battle blaze in Hong Kong shopping district

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong firefighters battled a blaze early Friday that broke out at a construction site in the city's popular shopping district. The fire erupted at the site in the densely built Tsim Sha Tsui district at about 11 p.m. on Thursday night. Multiple floors of the structure ...

Turkey intends to hold elections on May 14 despite quake

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that his government still intends to hold elections a month earlier than scheduled despite an earthquake last month that devastated parts of southern Turkey. In an address to legislators of his ruling party, ...

Russians place flowers at burnt out tanks in Baltic cities

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Burnt-out Russian tanks seized by Ukrainian forces last year have gone on display in recent days in the capitals of the three Baltics states, where Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are turning out to view them and snap photos in sympathy with the Ukrainians ...

Nigeria president-elect faces vote doubts, poverty, violence

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The newly elected president of Nigeria is the first person chosen to lead the country with less than 50% of the vote. And his rivals have yet to signal that they accept the legitimacy of the election. Suffice to say, the glass is not looking half full as Bola Tinubu, a ...

US approves selling Taiwan munitions worth $619 million

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. has approved more arms sales to Taiwan, including $619 million worth of munitions for F-16 fighter jets, in a decision likely to be yet another point of friction between the U.S. and China, which claims the island as its own territory. The State Department said ...

Intel agencies: No sign adversaries behind ‘Havana syndrome’

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with so-called "Havana syndrome," the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by American personnel around the world. The findings released Wednesday by ...

Here are the countries that have bans on TikTok

HONG KONG (AP) — The U.S. and Canada issued orders this week banning the use of TikTok on government-issued mobile devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns about the video-sharing app grow. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, has long maintained that it does not ...

China looks to consumers to drive economic rebound

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping's agenda for the annual meeting of the ceremonial legislature: Revive the economy by encouraging consumers to spend more now that severe anti-virus controls have ended, and install a government of loyalists to intensify Communist Party control over the ...

UN report: Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran

VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% in Iran's underground Fordo nuclear site, a report seen Tuesday by The Associated Press said. The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy ...

Blinken warns Central Asia of dangers from war in Ukraine

The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations, in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Russia's value as a partner has been badly compromised by its year-old war against Ukraine. In Kazakhstan for meetings with top ...

Mexican president says Tesla to build plant in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president announced Tuesday that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a major plant in the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the promise came in phone calls he had Friday and Monday with ...

UK’s Sunak tries to win over skeptics to his Brexit deal

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Belfast on Tuesday to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience: Unionist politicians who fear post-Brexit trade rules are weakening Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom. The U.K. and the ...