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Long after grisly end, Túpac Amaru still fascinates in Peru

NEW YORK (AP) — Roads and schools in Peru carry the name of Túpac Amaru. A framed depiction of him — stern gaze, flowing hair, wide-brimmed hat — hang...
16:17 18 May 2021

Tennessee to mandate bathroom signs about transgender use

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public ...
15:38 18 May 2021

Biden adviser makes personal appeal to young to get shots

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House aide made his pitch for young people to get vaccinated personal, sharing the struggles his own son has dealt with ...
15:27 18 May 2021

Gathering again? Gifts to wow and thank your host

The weather has warmed up, a lot of vaccines have gotten into a lot of arms, and many of us are getting ready to gather with friends (following all CD...
13:55 18 May 2021

Hong Kong police say top officer did nothing immoral

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police said Tuesday there is no evidence the director of its National Security Department, who was caught up in a raid on a...
13:30 18 May 2021

Arrest warrant issued for man in Confederate monument theft

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the bizarre theft of a Confederate monument that was t...
13:26 18 May 2021

Israeli police: 2 killed in strike launched from Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A strike launched from Gaza on Tuesday killed two Thai workers inside a packaging plant in southern Israel, police said, ...
12:30 18 May 2021

Israeli medics: 10 wounded, 4 seriously, in strike from Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A strike launched from Gaza on Tuesday wounded 10 people in southern Israel, four of them seriously, Israeli medics repor...
11:57 18 May 2021

Hodgson, 73, stepping down as Crystal Palace manager

Roy Hodgson, the Premier League’s oldest manager at 73, is leaving his role at Crystal Palace at the end of the season after four years at the club......
11:32 18 May 2021

Stellantis, Foxconn team up to make cars more connected

MILAN (AP) — Carmaker Stellantis and Taiwan’s Foxconn on Tuesday announced plans to develop a jointly operated automotive supplier focusing on technol...
11:26 18 May 2021

Monet’s gardens reopening, a picture-perfect pandemic tonic

GIVERNY, France (AP) — Beneath the scudding clouds and amid the luscious blooms, the gardeners tend the flowerbeds that were the pride and joy of impr...
11:19 18 May 2021

Qatar detains Kenyan guard who wrote on laborers’ struggles

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Kenyan who wrote compelling dispatches under a pseudonym about the challenges of living as a low-wage worker in Q...
11:16 18 May 2021

EXPLAINER: How worrying is the variant first seen in India?

LONDON (AP) — For the first time in months, people across England are meeting indoors at pubs, restaurants, cinemas, gyms and elsewhere as coronavirus...
10:47 18 May 2021

Palestinians go on strike as Israel, Hamas trade fire

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective action against Israel’s polic...
10:23 18 May 2021

New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron...
9:58 18 May 2021

Israel, Hamas trade fire in Gaza; Palestinians go on strike

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building, and...
9:14 18 May 2021

Italy’s Lampedusa island slammed again by migrant arrivals

LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — The tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is in the throes of yet another season of migrants arriving by sea, and Ibrahima M...
7:38 18 May 2021

Energy agency: End new fossil fuel supply investments

BERLIN (AP) — A report by the International Energy Agency says immediate action is needed to reshape the world’s energy sector in order to meet ambiti...
7:32 18 May 2021

Lam defends freezing of publisher’s assets as safety measure

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday defended the freezing of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai’s assets as a necessary move under ...
7:30 18 May 2021

Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic

NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpo...
7:18 18 May 2021

Ransomware hits AXA units in Asia, Irish healthcare

BANGKOK (AP) — The Thai affiliate of Paris-based insurance company AXA said Tuesday it is investigating a ransomware attack by Russian-speaking cyberc...
7:02 18 May 2021

EXPLAINER: Are Israel, Hamas committing war crimes in Gaza?

JERUSALEM (AP) — More than a week into their fourth war, Israel and the Hamas militant group already face allegations of possible war crimes in Gaza. ...
7:00 18 May 2021

Israel, Hamas trade fire in Gaza as war rages on

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building in d...
6:55 18 May 2021

Hong Kong’s new bishop wants differing views respected

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s incoming Roman Catholic bishop Stephen Chow called for respect for different views as he prepares to lead a diocese that ...
6:52 18 May 2021

Rugby uses eye-tracking technology to tackle concussions

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A “shadow trial” of advanced eye-tracking technology will be conducted in the Super Rugby Trans-Tasman tournament in Au...
6:46 18 May 2021

Bangladesh arrests journalist known for unearthing graft

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested a journalist known for her strong reporting against official corruption in the S...
6:45 18 May 2021

Colts change offseason schedule by cutting deal with players

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich is always considering new approaches to finish the job....
6:38 18 May 2021

Israel, Hamas trade fire in Gaza as war enters 2nd week

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building in d...
6:31 18 May 2021

Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes — the electric chair or the firing squad....
6:20 18 May 2021

Durst jurors to get refresher in deaths tied to millionaire

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — After an unprecedented 14-month recess in the murder trial of multimillionaire Robert Durst, the judge in the case welcomed b...
5:08 18 May 2021