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14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong's biggest national security case 05/30/2024 07:17am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong���s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government���s authority and created a constitutional crisi More players accused in Australian soccer match-fixing investigation 05/30/2024 01:46am • Two more players could be involved in the Australian soccer match-fixing case that has already resulted in three Macarthur FC players being charged. Midfielder Kearyn Baccus appeared in court Thursday to face charges relating to an illegal betting plot to receive yellow cards during A-League matches 4 Pakistanis killed by Iranian border guards in remote southwestern region, Pakistani officials say 05/30/2024 12:39am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� Iranian border guards opened fire at a vehicle carrying a group of Pakistanis, killing four people and wounding two others in a remote area in the southwest, Pakistani officials said Thursday. The incident happened near the border village of Mashkel in Baluchistan province AP interview: Divisions among the world's powerful nations are undermining UN efforts to end crises 05/30/2024 12:05am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Deep divisions especially among the world���s most powerful nations have significantly undermined what the United Nations can do to help nations move from conflict to peace, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said. Jean-Pierre Lacroix told The Associated Press in an interview that t Today in History: May 30, Joan of Arc burned at the stake 05/30/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Thursday, May 30, the 151st day of 2024. There are 215 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN���), France. On this date: In 1922, the Lincoln Memor Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico's election 05/29/2024 11:17pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico held the last day of campaigning Wednesday before Sunday���s nationwide election, but the closing rallies were darkened by attacks on candidates and the country's persistently high homicide rate. Opposition candidate X��chitl G��lvez started her last campaign rallies earl An Iceland volcano spews red streams of lava toward an evacuated town 05/29/2024 10:31pm • GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) ��� A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Wednesday for the fifth time since December, spewing red lava that once again threatened the coastal town of Grindavik and led to the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. The eruption began in the early afternoon Iran says Saudi Arabia has expelled 6 state media journalists ahead of the Hajj after detaining them 05/29/2024 09:42pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia expelled six members of a crew from its state television broadcaster after they had been detained for nearly a week in the kingdom ahead of the Hajj. Saudi Arabia said the men had been working in violation of the visas they r A bus falls into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing 28 people and injuring 20 05/29/2024 09:15pm • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� A speeding passenger bus fell from a highway into a rocky ravine in southwest Pakistan early Wednesday, killing 28 people and injuring 20 others, officials said. Local police officer Asghar Ali said the driver lost control suddenly in Washuk town as the bus was traveling fr Jury deliberations begin in trial of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case 05/29/2024 09:02pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the case of an Idaho man charged with murdering his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children in what prosecutors said was a callous scheme for money, power and sex. ���Three dead bodies ... and for what?��� prosecutor Lindsey Blake Seattle police chief dismissed from top job amid discrimination, harassment lawsuits 05/29/2024 08:30pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Seattle���s embattled police chief has been dismissed, Mayor Bruce Harrel said Wednesday. Harrell said at a news conference that he met with Adrian Diaz on Tuesday and they agreed Diaz should step down. He will work on special assignments for the mayor with the police department, H Authorities arrest man allegedly running 'likely world's largest ever' cybercrime botnet 05/29/2024 08:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and fin Four dead after vehicles collide on Virginia road, police say 05/29/2024 07:16pm • SHEPPARDS, Va. (AP) ��� Four motorists were killed when a car crossed the center line of a Virginia road and struck vehicles going in the opposite direction, state police said on Wednesday. The multi-vehicle crash occurred shortly before noon on Tuesday south of the Sheppards community in Buckingham New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances 05/29/2024 07:05pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public���s ability to film officers ��� a tool that has increasingly been used to hold poli Ohio man gets probation after pleading guilty to threatening North Carolina legislator 05/29/2024 06:47pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� An Ohio man received supervised probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a North Carolina state senator in a social media message last year. Nicolas Alan Daniels, of West Portsmouth, Ohio, entered a plea to one felony count of threatening a legislative officer l