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Kardashian West Helps Fly Afghan women soccer players to UK

LONDON (AP) - Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in Britain after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and Kim Kardashian West. A plane carrying more…

US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed

BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster is on his way home from military-ruled Myanmar. Fenster spent nearly six months in jail and was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. On Monday, he was handed over to…

Italian Coast Guard rescues 550 migrants from stormy seas

ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy's mainland. One rescue, of…

Police: Ecuadorian prison clash leaves at least 52 dead

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Clashes inside Ecuador’s largest prison have left at least 52 inmates dead in the latest violence to hit the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw what authorities said was the country’s worst ever prison bloodbath. Residents living…

Armistice remembrance seeks return to normalcy amid COVID-19

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Armistice Day remembrances have been observed around the world after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out ceremonies last year to mark the end 1918 end of World War I. Dignitaries and government leaders across the Western Front…

China, US pledge to enhance climate cooperation at UN talks

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — China and the United States have pledged to increase cooperation on climate action in a joint declaration at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow. In separate news conferences Wednesday, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. counterpart…

Malala Yousafzai announces her marriage on Twitter

LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai has announced her marriage. The 24-year-old Pakistani human rights campaigner who was shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education posted images on Twitter of her…

Oil tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, killing at least 92

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Authorities say at least 92 people are dead and 30 others critically wounded after an oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone's capital. Large crowds had gathered to collect fuel that was leaking from the tanker…