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Police search the European Parliament over suspected Russian interference, prosecutors say 05/29/2024 12:06pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Police searched the offices and residence of an employee of the European Parliament on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether EU lawmakers were bribed to promote Russian propaganda to undermine support for Ukraine, prosecutors said. Just days before European elections, Poland's leader says the border with Belarus will be further fortified after a soldier is stabbed 05/29/2024 10:48am • DUBICZE CERKIEWNE, Poland (AP) ��� Poland���s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that its forces would further fortify the border with Belarus and can use ���all available means��� to defend the NATO nation���s frontier, after a soldier was seriously wounded with a knife by a migrant. Tusk sa A group of armed men burns a girls' school in northwest Pakistan, in third such attack this month 05/29/2024 10:45am • DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) ��� A group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls��� school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday, in the latest in a series of such attacks. No one was hurt in the overnight attack in No French prosecutor in New Caledonia says authorities are investigating suspects behind deadly unrest 05/29/2024 10:11am • NICE, France (AP) ��� The French prosecutor in New Caledonia said authorities have opened an investigation into unrest that has left seven people dead and significant destruction in the Pacific archipelago with decades of tensions between those seeking independence and those loyal to France. The vi Vermont's Republican governor allows ghost gun bill to become law without his signature 05/29/2024 09:50am • Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, has allowed a bill to become law that requires serial numbers on firearms that are privately made with individual parts, kits or 3D printers. Scott allowed the bill, part of an effort to crack down on hard-to-trace ghost guns that are increasingly showing up in A Jewish veteran from London prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings 05/29/2024 08:49am • LONDON (AP) ��� Even as he prepared to embark for the battlefields of Normandy, Pvt. Mervyn Kersh was summoned by his commanding officer and threatened with arrest. Why, the officer demanded, had Kersh refused to eat his army rations of canned beef and vegetables, subsisting only on canned peaches? Dutch police say they're homing in on robbers responsible for multimillion-dollar jewelry heist 05/29/2024 08:25am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� An international investigation is homing in on a gang of robbers believed to be responsible for a brazen multimillion-dollar jewelry heist at an art show in the Netherlands and two stolen gemstones have been recovered, Dutch police said Wednesday. Smartly dressed robb North Korea flies trash balloons over the South as leader Kim doubles down on satellite ambitions 05/29/2024 08:12am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� North Korea flew hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea in one of its most bizarre provocations against its rival in years, prompting the South���s military to mobilize chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in diffe What to know about airman Roger Fortson's fatal shooting by a Florida sheriff's deputy 05/29/2024 08:05am • The fatal shooting of Roger Fortson by a Florida sheriff's deputy when the Air Force senior airman opened his door armed with a handgun pointed down happened almost a month ago, but the information released so far hasn't clarified why the officer was directed to his apartment. The Okaloosa County S Multiple guns intercepted at BWI and Reagan airports within a week 05/29/2024 06:26am • Transportation Security Administration officers at BWI Marshall Airport detected yet another loaded handgun at a security checkpoint on Sunday. The 9 mm gun loaded with eight rounds was among the belongings of a man who worked at one of the airport's retail shops. Police confiscated the gun and t Europe's cybersecurity chief says disruptive attacks have doubled in 2024, sees Russia behind many 05/29/2024 06:11am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Disruptive digital attacks, many linked to Russian-backed groups, have doubled in the European Union in recent months and are also targeting election-related services, according to the EU���s top cybersecurity official. Juhan Lepassaar, head of the European Union Agency for DC Council chair unveils budget proposal with property tax increase for certain residents 05/29/2024 05:54am • D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson has made his revisions to Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget, and there are marked differences in how he wants to handle tax increases and the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, which Bowser controversially proposed slashing. Mendelson's proposal would Georgian parliament overrides presidential veto of the divisive foreign influence bill 05/29/2024 01:54am • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� The Georgian parliament on Tuesday overrode a presidential veto of the ���foreign agents��� bill that has prompted weeks of massive protests by critics who say it will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia���s chances of joining the European Union. The legislature, co Today in History: May 29, Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Moscow summit 05/29/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 29, the 150th day of 2024. There are 216 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 29, 1988, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened their historic summit in Moscow. On this date: In 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