Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitians, Syrians
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is moving a significant part of its air defenses to protect a handful of prime targets, including Moscow, as Ukraine’s long-range drones hammered sites deep inside the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.
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LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue teams raced Thursday to the areas hardest hit by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked northern Venezuela, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping many beneath collapsed buildings.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims around the world on Thursday marked Ashoura, a holy day symbolizing sacrifice and martyrdom that holds special significance for many this year after months of war in Iran and Lebanon.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday pledged firm support for the self-governed island of Taiwan as they welcomed Han Kuo-yu, president of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, to Washington, at a time the Trump administration is reviewing a $14 billion arms sales package to Taiwan, months after it got preliminary congressional approval.
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Shiite Muslims have been observing a solemn period of communal mourning leading to the day of Ashoura, which marks the seventh century killing of Hussein, a revered leader and a grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets.
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SURAT, India (AP) — Before dawn breaks over the Indian industrial hub of Surat, textile worker Sibaram Pradhan is already awake, sitting on the floor in a cramped room he shares with as many as nine other men. Sweat beads on his forehead even at 6 a.m. as sweltering heat and humidity make days and nights hot across India this summer.
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When Haiti qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after a 2-0 victory against Nicaragua on Nov. 18, 2025, the Caribbean nation had not qualified in 52 years.
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TOKYO (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s northern coast on Thursday, but the country’s meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami.
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After an odyssey from the United Kingdom and Boston to South Florida, hopeful Scottish fans were at the Miami Stadium on Wednesday morning, more than seven hours before the match against Brazil.
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While FIFA World Cup fans were having fun, U.S. Customs and Border Protection used technology to protect the country’s border at the stadium.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday’s runoff election.
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Brazilian and Scottish fans celebrated their love of soccer on Wednesday at the Miami Stadium, even though only Brazil advanced to the FIFA World Cup’s Round of 32.
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Police in Trinidad and Tobago said Wednesday that they are searching for a group of robbers caught on camera who used a backhoe to try and steal a cash machine but bungled the movie-style heist so badly they ended up as memes.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The rise of Abelardo de la Espriella, a businessman and lawyer set to be Colombia's next president, is raising questions about whether political shifts underway across Latin America could reshape the future of the Amazon rainforest.
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Colombian President-elect Abelardo De la Espriella plans to restore the South American country’s relations with Israel when he takes office on Aug. 7.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck a major natural gas processing plant and two key satellite communications centers in their latest nighttime attacks on Russia, Ukraine’s General Staff said Wednesday.
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LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham took a step closer to becoming Britain’s next prime minister without a contest on Wednesday when Cabinet minister Darren Jones, touted as a possible rival, said he would not run.
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TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency said Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors as part of the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end to the war. An Iranian diplomat instead insisted any such visit would only come after a final deal.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations accused Israel of deliberately shooting children in Gaza and repeated its accusation that Israel has committed genocide in the territory.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leader of a secretive South Korean church was arrested Wednesday as authorities widened an investigation into allegations that he illegally recruited thousands of followers into the conservative People Power Party to influence elections.
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SØFTEN, Denmark (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.
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BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — Hundreds of Catholic devotees wrapped themselves in dried banana leaves and covered their bodies with mud on Wednesday in the Philippine village of Bibiclat, taking part in a display of faith honoring St. John the Baptist.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. and Iran were in dispute Tuesday over whether Tehran had agreed to allow U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites. As officials negotiated over how to permanently end the war in Iran, a separate plan emerged to break the shipping bottleneck through the Strait of Hormuz.
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BERLIN (AP) — A problem with a communications system forced Germany’s railway system to halt all trains late Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across the country.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. hit Cuban state companies on Tuesday with new sanctions that analysts say are expected to spook foreign investors and deepen a severe economic crisis.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday authorizing new steps to ensure that perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers face justice.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met Tuesday with European Union staff in Brussels for closed-door talks that focused on diplomatic services and the “dignified returns” of Afghans to the isolated and war-ravaged nation, a Taliban official said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s health minister on Tuesday ordered the suspension of the construction of an Ebola quarantine center for Americans, a day after he was held in contempt by a court that had halted the project.
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BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai woman appeared in a Myanmar court on Tuesday in her trial on an immigration-related charge linked to allegations that she killed her ex-husband, a U.S. diplomat, according to an attorney familiar with her case.
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Mexico, Kenya, Italy and other nations around the world are experiencing one to two more months of heat stress than they were several decades ago, new research published Monday says, and some areas even more so. Regions previously untouched by heat stress are now feeling it, too.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two students armed with hand guns opened fire in a high school in the central Philippines on Monday, killing three fellow students and wounding at least 20 others, police said.
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Fernando Bermudez was among the Venezuelan migrants who live in Colombia who breathed a sigh of relief after Abelardo De la Espriella’s narrow presidential victory on Sunday’s runoff election.
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Fernando Bermudez was among the Venezuelan migrants who live in Colombia who breathed a sigh of relief after Abelardo De la Espriella’s narrow presidential victory on Sunday’s runoff election.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Eccentric, ostentatious and artistic, Abelardo de la Espriella is also a political neophyte who is poised to become Colombia’s next president after leaning into everything that makes him different from the conventional politician to win people’s support.
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Abelardo De La Espriella won 80.57% of the votes from Colombians in the U.S. during the presidential runoff election on Sunday, according to data published by the Colombian National Registry.
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After judges’ certification, Hernán Penagos, Colombia’s national registrar, announced on Monday that the preliminary vote count after the runoff presidential election was “accurate.”
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PARIS (AP) — France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering in a heat wave with daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights.
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday announced sanctions on 10 American military-related companies in response to a recent U.S. move that bars some leading Chinese tech companies from defense contracts.
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LONDON (AP) — Simon Boyd’s firm makes prefabricated steel structures on the south coast of England and ships them to customers as far away as Ghana and Barbados. Mike Hawes represents Britain’s carmakers as the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Monday that wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed, urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries.
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BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said, as tracing those who had been in contact with patients remains a major challenge.
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U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Abelardo De la Espriella, Colombia’s new president-elect, during a phone call on Sunday, according to De La Espriella’s campaign.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella held a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s presidential election with nearly all the votes counted Sunday, in a runoff vote marked by people’s fears of a renewed internal conflict.
Iran’s foreign minister said early Monday that Pakistani and Qatari mediation has delivered major progress to end the Lebanon War and the two mediating nations said the first round of High-level talks between the U.S. and the Islamic republic had ended. The United States has not yet commented,
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During a speech on Sunday night in Bogotá, Colombian presidential candidate Iván Cepeda said the preliminary vote count result was “not official or binding” and vowed “to challenge” it.
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Colombians made history on Sunday as they voted for the country’s 48th president in a runoff election between left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda and right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella.
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Colombians made history on Sunday as they voted for the country’s 48th president in a runoff election between left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda and right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s ruling party has maintained an overwhelming majority in parliament following the June 1 election, according to final results on Sunday.
Officials in Russia-occupied Crimea suspended civilian gasoline sales Sunday as Ukraine ramped up attacks on fuel supplies on the Black Sea peninsula.
SANT'ANGELO LODIGIANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday exalted the first American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today to care for migrants in need, as he visited her birthplace during a day trip to northern Italy.
Colombians head to the polls to cast their ballots on Sunday, as they vote for a new president during a runoff election.
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Less than 150 miles (240 kilometers) from Los Angeles' World Cup stadium sits the hotel housing Iran's team. The entrance to the Marriott in Tijuana, Mexico, is barricaded, flanked by police and members of the Mexican National Guard, guns held close. No one enters without a hotel reservation or special permission.
