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Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on Islamabad's outskirts kills at least 31 and wounds scores 02/06/2026 01:17pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan's capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks Spain and Portugal continue to battle Storm Leonardo as new storm approaches 02/06/2026 01:06pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Storm Leonardo continued to batter the Iberian Peninsula on Friday, bringing floods and putting rivers at risk of bursting their banks while thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Spain and Portugal. In southern Spain's Andalusia region, some 7,000 people have had to Thousands of Libyans gather for the funeral of Gadhafi���s son who was shot and killed this week 02/06/2026 12:31pm • BANI WALID, Libya (AP) ��� Thousands converged in northwestern Libya for the funeral Friday of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya���s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed earlier this week when four masked assailants stormed into his home and fatally shot him. What to know about the Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony on Friday 02/06/2026 11:06am • MILAN (AP) ��� The opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Olympics is happening Friday night. Here's what you should know about it. It will be centered in Milan���s landmark San Siro stadium, featuring the Parade of Athletes and entertainment over the course of the nearly three-hour spectacle that is Swiss teammates Odermatt, von Allmen share information but keep secrets with Olympic gold at stake 02/06/2026 11:05am • BORMIO, Italy (AP) ��� Swiss teammates and Olympic downhill rivals Marco Odermatt and Franjo von Allmen usually share everything, from notes on a particular course to breakfast-table banter. Not so much chatter right now. Both are gold-medal favorites Saturday at the Milan Cortina Games, so the shar In a Nigerian village, extremists issued a call to prayer and then slaughtered those who turned up 02/06/2026 10:12am • WORO, Nigeria (AP) ��� Weeks after residents of two Nigerian villages ignored a letter from militants announcing they would come to spread their extreme form of Islam, gunmen arrived on motorbikes and embarked on a 10-hour frenzy of killing. The attackers went from door to door, shooting and setting Tropical storm leaves 8 dead, thousands displaced in Philippines after flooding and a landslide 02/06/2026 10:09am • CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AP) ��� A tropical storm set off flooding and a landslide in the southern Philippines, leaving at least eight people dead, displacing more than 28,000 and trapping residents in houses in two flooded villages, officials said Friday. Tropical Storm Penha slammed ashore ont The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/06/2026 09:43am • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he���d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency ��� that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death���s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl 02/06/2026 07:09am • Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government���s official policy to unite the child with her family. The Associated Press fought for three years for access to US Olympic hockey history has been given an outsized boost from a tiny, proud Minnesota town 02/06/2026 06:47am • The pursuit of a gold medal that has eluded the U.S. men's hockey team since the ���Miracle on Ice��� in 1980 appears to be on sound footing. The return of the NHL players after their absence from the last two Winter Games ought to provide a significant boost, but the inclusion of one of player in p US and Russia agree to reestablish military dialogue after Ukraine talks 02/06/2026 06:30am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The U.S. and Russia agreed Thursday to reestablish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years in another sign of warming relations between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to office and sought to end the war in Ukraine. High- Dixon-Waters leads San Diego State against Air Force after 23-point performance 02/06/2026 04:43am • San Diego State Aztecs (16-6, 10-2 MWC) at Air Force Falcons (3-19, 0-11 MWC) Colorado Springs, Colorado; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: San Diego State takes on Air Force after Reese Dixon-Waters scored 23 points in San Diego State's 72-63 victory over the Wyoming Cowboys. The Falcons have gone Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms 02/06/2026 02:11am • KAPLAN, La. (AP) ��� Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For every crawfish Courville dumps out of a trap, three or four snails clang onto the boat���s metal Detroit hosts New York after Brunson's 42-point game 02/06/2026 02:04am • New York Knicks (33-18, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (37-13, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knicks -1.5; over/under is 224.5 BOTTOM LINE: New York visits the Detroit Pistons after Jalen Brunson scored 42 points in the Bus carrying wedding party tumbles off mountainous road in Nepal, killing 13 and injuring 34 02/05/2026 11:50pm • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� A bus carrying a wedding party veered off a mountain road in west Nepal and tumbled down a slope in a crash that killed at least 13 people while 34 more were injured, police said Friday. The bus carrying members of a wedding party was returning home when the bus fell about