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New Thai prime minister pays friendly visit to neighboring Cambodia's own new leader 09/28/2023 09:52am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Two of Southeast Asia���s newest national leaders, both in office for just over a month, exchanged congratulations Thursday as Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin paid a one-day official visit to Cambodia for talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet. Although ther Shelters for migrants are filling up across Germany as attitudes toward the newcomers harden 09/28/2023 07:57am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany. There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat next to them on a bench. A group of five young Paki Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/27/2023 03:08pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' 09/27/2023 06:06am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N.���s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan���s Taliban rulers on women and girls ���gender apartheid,��� the head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality said Tuesday. Sima Bahous, executi Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/26/2023 01:11pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov DC to settle suit for not providing special education in jail during pandemic 09/26/2023 08:35am • High school students with disabilities in the D.C. jail reached a settlement with the District on Monday, after a lawsuit claimed they were denied an education while incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit, D.C. Public Schools stopped providing in-person education to stud UN says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan as conflict grinds on 09/26/2023 06:33am • CAIRO (AP) ��� Outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps amid deadly fighting between the country's military and a rival paramilitary force, the U.N. health agency said on Tuesday. According to the World Heal Former New Zealand prime minister and pandemic prep leader says we're unprepared for the next one 09/25/2023 05:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared. That���s the bleak assessment of former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who co-chaired the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, after the U.N. General Assembly held a high-level summit aim Libya's top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in the deadly collapse of dams 09/25/2023 04:51pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Libya���s chief prosecutor said Monday he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thou Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/25/2023 01:14pm • oto (AP) ��� Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questi Kaine cosponsors bill to expand veterans��� access to healthcare 09/25/2023 10:44am • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner��InsideNoVa.com��and republished with permission. Sign up for��InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription��today. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committees, joined three ot After summer's extreme weather, more Americans see climate change as a culprit, AP-NORC poll shows 09/25/2023 08:09am • Kathleen Maxwell has lived in Phoenix for more than 20 years, but this summer was the first time she felt fear, as daily high temperatures soared to 110 degrees or hotter and kept it up for a record-shattering 31 consecutive days. ���It's always been really hot here, but nothing like this past summe Nikki Haley's approach to abortion is rooted in her earliest days in South Carolina politics 09/23/2023 09:15am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� As a state representative running a longshot campaign for South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley would often explain her opposition to abortion with a story about her family. ���I���m strongly pro-life, very pro-life, and not because my party tells me to be, but my husband was Takeaways from investigation that turned up gold bars, a luxury car and cash at a US senator's home 09/22/2023 05:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife are accused of taking bribes of gold bars, a luxury car and cash in exchange for using his outsized sway in foreign affairs to help the government of Egypt ��� and others ��� as well as other corrupt acts, according to an indictment Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/22/2023 01:38pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov