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French minister: suspect says he'll surrender

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The French interior minister says a suspect in three deadly attacks has thrown his handgun out a window but has other weapons on him and has used them in volleys with police surrounding a building in this southwestern city....

APNewsBreak: Myanmar invites US election monitors

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has invited the U.S. and European Union to send observers to monitor April elections, an American official said Wednesday, a first for the long-isolated country seeking to convince the West to lift crippling sanctions....

Bahrain mosque damage shows plight to ease unrest

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- At some point before dawn, the vandals struck with brutal efficiency, smashing the windows at one of Bahrain's oldest Shiite mosques. Then the attackers walked over the broken shards to ransack offices and prayer areas - making sure to pull down some framed parchments with Quranic verses....

Wax museum spurs sticky situation in Iraq

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An exhibit of wax statues depicting some of Shiite Muslims' most beloved clerics, aimed at paying tribute to this Iraqi holy city's contributions to culture, has been dipped in controversy as some Sunnis decry the figures as heretical....

7.4 quake hits Mexico, but apparently spares lives

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A powerful earthquake that shook Mexico from its massive capital to its resort-studded southern coast damaged hundreds of homes and sent thousands of panicked people fleeing from swaying office buildings, yet apparently didn't cause a single death....

7.4 quake hits Mexico, but apparently spares lives

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A powerful earthquake that shook Mexico from its massive capital to its resort-studded southern coast damaged hundreds of homes and sent thousands of panicked people fleeing from swaying office buildings, yet apparently didn't cause a single death....

What to do about Syria? Turkey wavers

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkey stands at the forefront of calls for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but there are an awful lot of red lines that it won't cross to realize that goal....

Chinese spies target Taiwan's US-made defenses

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 20:36
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- When Taiwanese security personnel detained a suspected spy for China at a top secret military base last month, they may have had a sense of deja vu....
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