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Answering readers' questions about the protest movement on US college campuses 05/03/2024 08:42am • A wave of demonstrations has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have pitched tents or occupied buildings in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. It started April 18 when police moved to break up an encampment at Columbia University in New York City. Since then, it h Tight league title races play out across European soccer. Belgium aims for more epic last-day drama 05/03/2024 08:24am • GENEVA (AP) — The helicopter is on standby again. Its task? To deliver the Belgian league trophy to the winner of another three-team title race that can only hope to match the epic climax of last season. European soccer has intense title chases for fans to savor this month: The Arsenal-Manchester A bus plunges into a rocky ravine in northern Pakistan, killing 20 people and injuring 30 others 05/03/2024 08:01am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A bus plunged into a rocky ravine in northern Pakistan on Friday after its driver lost control, killing 20 people and injuring 30 others, officials said. The bus was traveling to Hunza on the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district when the accident occu Norwegian Islamist wanted over deadly shooting at LGBTQ+ festival is being sent back from Pakistan 05/03/2024 07:15am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A radical Norwegian Islamist who is suspected of complicity in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo two years ago has been expelled from Pakistan and is on his way to Norway, the Scandinavian country's government said Friday. Two people were killed and nine Cambodia's Supreme Court upholds the 2-year prison sentence of a casino strike leader 05/03/2024 07:15am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino. Chhim Sithar, president of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, had origin Improvised explosive kills three and wounds seven in Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province 05/03/2024 07:12am • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A blast from an improvised explosive device killed three people and wounded seven on Friday in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan, a police officer said. Footage from the scene moments before the attack shows a motorcyclist traveling alongside the car, attaching somethin Kremlin critics say Russia is targeting its foes abroad with killings, poisonings and harassment 05/03/2024 07:04am • The military defector was killed in a hail of gunfire and then run over by a car in Spain. The opposition figure was struck repeatedly with a hammer in Lithuania. The journalist fell ill from a suspected poisoning in Germany. Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks a Soccer fan arrested in Marseille as authorities investigate reports of Nazi salute, monkey chants 05/03/2024 06:05am • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A soccer fan has been arrested by French police as local authorities investigate reports of a Nazi salute and monkey chants from Atalanta supporters at Marseille's stadium on Thursday. Marseille and Atalanta drew 1-1 in the first leg of the Europa League semifinals. One A Maui sues cell carriers over wildfire warning alerts that were never received during service outages 05/03/2024 04:53am • HONOLULU (AP) — Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer's deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said in a lawsuit. Alerts the county sent to cellphones warning people to imm Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampments at universities in Australia 05/03/2024 02:42am • SYDNEY (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters were camped on university campuses across Australia on Friday, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney, mirroring similar events in the United States. Students have set up encampments at universities in major Australian cities over the last AP Week in Pictures: Global 05/03/2024 01:05am • April 26 - May 2, 2024 Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread to multiple U.S. campuses. In Haiti, a new prime minister was named and people are demanding that the nation's new leaders priori For decades, Moscow has sought to silence its critics abroad 05/03/2024 12:17am • From its earliest days, the Soviet Union's intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or by the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by pursuing its opponents no matter where they lived. Intelligence experts say that policy is still followed New York made Donald Trump and could convict him. But for now, he's using it to campaign 05/03/2024 12:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — He's visiting Manhattan construction sites, decrying local crime and holding court in his gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse. After a years-long breakup with his hometown, Donald Trump is back in New York, this time as a criminal defendant. Stuck here most weekdays for the duration of h Today in History: May 3, Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female prime minister 05/03/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, May 3, the 124th day of 2024. There are 242 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 3, 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labour go More than 2,100 people have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests on US college campuses 05/02/2024 11:11pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings. One officer accidentall