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Cuba's Santeros offer gifts and ask deities for peace as tensions rise with US 01/26/2026 10:58am • HAVANA (AP) — As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santería held several ceremonies on Sunday, offering gifts to deities and asking for peace. Several leading figures i Indonesian marines among 42 missing in deadly West Java landslide 01/26/2026 10:32am • BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Nineteen members of Indonesia's elite marine force are among 42 people missing after being swept away or buried by a deadly weekend landslide that tore through a mountainside in West Java province, officials said Monday. The marines were training in rugged terrain and hea Pegula knocks 2025 champion Keys out of Australian Open, faces Anisimova in quarterfinals 01/26/2026 10:17am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jessica Pegula knocked podcast pal and defending champion Madison Keys out of the Australian Open on Monday to secure a quarterfinal against Amanda Anisimova, another all-American match. Their fourth-round wins on Day 9 means four Americans have reached the women's sing Bypass brings DC Water close to containing C&O Canal sewer overflow 01/26/2026 10:14am • D.C. Water said substantial progress has been made in its efforts to contain a major sewer overflow that began after a 72-inch section of the Potomac Interceptor collapsed one week ago along Clara Barton Parkway. The collapse triggered a significant sanitary sewer overflow into the C&O Canal Japanese court orders North Korea to pay damages to survivors of deceptive repatriation program 01/26/2026 08:55am • TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang's postwar false promise of living in “paradise on Earth,” ordering its government to pay them 22 million yen ($143,000) each, a decision welco Myanmar uses 'ghost ships' to import aviation fuel for deadly air attacks, Amnesty says 01/26/2026 07:56am • BANGKOK (AP) — Military-ruled Myanmar appears to have adopted the tactics of sanction-busting nations such as Russia, Iran and North Korea by using evasive sailing routes and dodgy ships to disguise the sources of aviation fuel it uses for air attacks in the country’s civil war, the human rights How a purge of China's military leadership could impact the army and the future of Taiwan 01/26/2026 05:03am • BEIJING (AP) — China made a major announcement over the weekend, saying it was investigating the army’s top general for suspected serious violations of discipline and law. Gen. Zhang Youxia was the highest military member just below President Xi Jinping. The Defense Ministry said Saturday that Egypt to adopt restrictions on children’s social media use to fight 'digital chaos' 01/26/2026 04:16am • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Parliament is looking into ways to regulate children’s use of social media platforms to combat what lawmakers called “digital choas,” following some western countries that are considering banning young teenagers from social media. The House of Representatives said in a s Myanmar military using paramotors and gyrocopters for aerial attacks on civilians, opposition forces 01/26/2026 04:01am • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar 's military is making increasing use of commercial paramotors and gyrocopters, low-tech flying machines that expand their capabilities to attack civilians and anti-government forces from the sky as the country's civil war rages, according to a report released Monday. The mi Riq Woolen’s ill-advised taunting penalty nearly foils Seahawks’ bid for Super Bowl berth 01/26/2026 02:13am • SEATTLE (AP) — An alternate reality exists in which Riq Woolen’s name becomes infamous for countless Seattle sports fans. Thankfully for those aficionados, such isn’t the case on account of the Seattle Seahawks’ 31-27 win over the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC championship game that clinched Health officials team with a soccer tournament for cervical cancer vaccination for African girls 01/26/2026 02:10am • NORTON, Zimbabwe (AP) — Lesotho’s Lishoeshoe soccer club was losing by four goals at halftime against South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns in the final of a regional Under-17 girls’ tournament in Zimbabwe aimed at promoting cervical cancer vaccination. By fulltime, the gap had stretched to 5-0. T-wolves and Warriors return to play in 'bizarre, sad' game with grieving Minneapolis on their minds 01/26/2026 12:30am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves returned to the court after the postponement of their game against the Golden State Warriors the day before, the focus clearly distracted by a community in crisis. “Their group was suffering. The vibe in the stands, it was one of the most bizarre, Nelson nets hat trick as Avalanche continue spree with 4-1 win over Maple Leafs 01/25/2026 11:57pm • TORONTO (AP) — Brock Nelson scored twice in a 1:12 span in the first period and sealed his fifth career hat trick with an empty-netter in the Colorado Avalanche’s 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday. Jack Drury also scored to help NHL-leading Colorado improve to 35-6-9. MacKenzie Sennecke scores in OT for 1st NHL hat trick as Ducks rally to beat Flames 4-3 01/25/2026 11:17pm • CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Rookie Beckett Sennecke scored at 2:54 of overtime for his first NHL hat trick as the Anaheim Ducks rallied to beat the Calgary Flames 4-3 Sunday night. Sennecke's winner came on a 2-on-1 in which he kept the puck and snapped a shot past Dustin Wolf, just inside the post. C More than 11,400 flights canceled Sunday as massive winter storm sweeps across US 01/25/2026 10:56pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A massive winter storm made for a brutal travel day Sunday, with widespread cancellations and delays at some of the nation's busiest airports. Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million people — more than half the U.S. population — in a path