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Post-communist generation is hoping for a new era of democracy in Mongolia 07/05/2024 04:50am • ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) ��� Tsenguun Saruulsaikhan, a young and newly minted member of Mongolia's parliament, is unhappy with below-cost electricity rates that she says show her country has yet to fully shake off its socialist past. Most of Mongolia���s power plants date from the Soviet era and o Palestinian soccer team plans to play World Cup qualifiers in the West Bank 07/05/2024 03:09am • After advancing further than ever in World Cup qualifying, the Palestinian soccer team is determined to host a game for a change. The football association has proposed playing games in the third stage of its Asian qualification campaign in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and already has support from Land routes across Africa are twice as deadly for migrants as Mediterranean voyages, UN estimates 07/05/2024 03:08am • GENEVA (AP) ��� The United Nations and partners say more migrants and refugees in Africa are heading northward toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing perilous routes in the Sahara where criminal gangs subject them to enslavement, organ removal, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses. A It's a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief, and flooding, to the southwestern US 07/05/2024 01:05am • MONUMENT VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) ��� It's as if the sky opened up and dropped everything it had in a matter of minutes. Giant raindrops combined with hail to transform an otherwise toasty summer day into a white wintry scene, at least for a few minutes. Then it all turned to red mud. That's how the mons Afghanistan has been through everything. Now it wants to dust off its postal service and modernize 07/05/2024 12:32am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting. They use mosques as drop points for bills and cash, a ���pay and pray��� system. Now the national postal servic Britain���s Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament 07/05/2024 12:06am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s Labour Party headed for a landslide victory Friday in a parliamentary election, an exit poll and partial returns indicated, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. As the sun rose, official results showed Labour ha New Zealand will radically ease zoning rules to try to relieve its stubborn housing shortage 07/04/2024 10:56pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� New Zealand will drastically ease zoning restrictions in a bid to ���flood the market��� with land for homes and override the powers of local councils to curb development, the nation's housing minister said in announcing reforms to what he called one of the world���s Yankees rookie Ben Rice hits 1st big league homer after being moved into leadoff spot 07/04/2024 10:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Ben Rice had fantasized about his first major league home run, and then he hit a drive into the Judge���s Chambers in Yankee Stadium's right-field seats. ���It���s way cooler to actually do it than just dream about it,��� he said after his fifth-inning shot off Frankie Montas on Th Biden heads into a make-or-break stretch for his imperiled presidential campaign 07/04/2024 10:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Thursday opened a critical stretch in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign, facing a growing sense that he may have just days to make a persuasive case that he is fit for office before Democratic support for him completely evaporates. In Labour's Keir Starmer says voters ���have spoken and they are ready for change��� as exit poll points to landslide win 07/04/2024 10:06pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Labour's Keir Starmer says voters ���have spoken and they are ready for change��� as exit poll points to landslide win. California's Gavin Newsom touts his support for President Joe Biden and sidesteps replacement talk 07/04/2024 09:05pm • SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom offered a forceful defense of embattled President Joe Biden on Thursday, telling Democrats in Michigan that the 81-year-old president has the record and energy to win a second term despite widespread doubts about his ability to campaign or gov Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, admits to false invoice and blames a deputy 07/04/2024 08:36pm • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis��� chief of staff became one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court Thursday, telling a British tribunal about the negotiations at the heart of the Vatican���s so-called ���trial of the century,��� admitting he filed a false invoice and poi Showers exit DC area ahead of Fourth of July fireworks 07/04/2024 08:24pm • A few lingering showers are wrapping up on this hot and humid Fourth of July after soaking rain and storms dampened some outdoor celebrations in the D.C. area earlier Thursday evening. Here's what you need to know. People dressed in patriotic outfits huddled under umbrellas on the National Mall a PHOTOS: Americans celebrate Fourth of July with dazzling patriotism 07/04/2024 05:55pm • D.C.-area residents are joining Americans nationwide in celebrating Independence Day with patriotic parades, steamy cookouts and show-stopping fireworks displays. Here’s a look at Fourth of July celebrations in D.C. and around the U.S. More July Fourth News Experience the spectacle of Z-Burg Before his first game as head coach, Jonatan Gir��ldez explains why he chose the Washington Spirit 07/04/2024 04:24pm • Jonatan Gir��ldez, the new head coach of the Washington Spirit, will finally make his sideline debut on Saturday on the road against Bay FC. Team president and general manager Mark Krikorian said on Wednesday it was important to have Gir��ldez jump into the role with "a fully intact team," adding