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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for royal defamation, prosecutors say 05/29/2024 04:47am • BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors said Wednesday former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges. Thaksin will not yet be indicted because he had filed a request to postpone his original appointment on We Authorities in Papua New Guinea search for safer ground for thousands of landslide survivors 05/29/2024 04:43am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Papua New Guinea were searching on Wednesday for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the South Pacific country's highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site whe Owner of UK's Royal Mail says it has accepted a takeover offer from a Czech billionaire 05/29/2024 04:07am • LONDON (AP) — The owner of Britain’s Royal Mail said Wednesday it has accepted a 3.6 billion pound ($4.6 billion) takeover offer from Czech investor Daniel Křetínský. Under the deal, Křetínský’s EP Group would buy International Distribution Services, which owns Royal Mail, for 370 pence Sweden seeks to answer worried students' questions about NATO and war after its neutrality ends 05/29/2024 02:34am • STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — The teacher's opening question to students in Stockholm is blunt: “Has joining NATO increased the threat to Sweden?” Sweden became the Western military alliance's 32nd member in March. The abrupt end to the Scandinavian country’s 200 years of neutrality following Rus US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas fights off challenge from gun-rights activist in GOP runoff 05/29/2024 01:33am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent. Another prominent Texas Republican, state House Speaker Dade Phelan Luis Matos hits walk-off sacrifice fly, Giants relievers blank Phillies in 1-0, 10-inning win 05/29/2024 01:21am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Luis Matos hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, Spencer Howard pitched four scoreless innings and the San Francisco Giants beat the MLB-leading Philadelphia Phillies 1-0 on Tuesday night. After the Phillies failed to score in the top of the 10th off Sean Hjelle (2 Stock market today: Asian shares decline after a mixed post-holiday session on Wall Street 05/29/2024 12:12am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after a mixed session on Wall Street following a three-day holiday weekend. Shares fell in Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Hong Kong, but rose in Shanghai. Mainland Chinese markets were lifted by moves by city governments in China to support the prop Rallies and debates used to define campaigns. Now they're about juries and trials 05/29/2024 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sitting for hours a day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his hush-money trial is nearing its end. On Monday, a trial is set to begin in Wilmington, Delaware, for President Joe Biden's son Hunter, who is accused of lying on a feder Two ex-FBI officials who traded anti-Trump texts close to settlement over alleged privacy violations 05/28/2024 11:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials have reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. The Storms leave widespread outages across Texas, cleanup continues after deadly weekend across US 05/28/2024 10:09pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people during the Memor The toll of Beijing's security law on Hong Kong's activists 05/28/2024 10:04pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Activist Chan Po-ying is permitted only 15-minute daily visits to see her husband, Leung Kwok-hung, separated by a plexiglass barrier in a highly guarded Hong Kong jail. Leung, 68, is one of 47 activists who were prosecuted in the largest national security law case to date in the Transitional council in Haiti selects new prime minister for a country under siege by gangs 05/28/2024 09:52pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to t Rams QB Stetson Bennett says he stepped away from football last year to address mental health 05/28/2024 09:39pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Rams quarterback Stetson Bennett says he stepped away from football last year to address his mental health. Bennett said Tuesday that he feels recharged and ready to play again. The two-time national champion at the University of Georgia is participating in Executions worldwide jumped last year to the highest number since 2015, Amnesty report says 05/28/2024 09:18pm • LONDON (AP) — The number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with a sharp rise in Iran and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday. The human rights group said it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023, Proposed gender identity measure fails to qualify for California ballot 05/28/2024 09:06pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won't be voting this November on a policy that would have required schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification. Proponents of a ballot measure to create such a statewide policy announced Tuesday they failed to collect