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1 police officer killed and 6 others wounded in grenade attack at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan 04/08/2024 12:56pm • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� A police officer died and six other officers were wounded in a grenade attack Monday at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, authorities said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Local police chief Nasir S Italy's police arrest a Tajik man suspected of Islamic State membership at Rome airport 04/08/2024 11:46am • ROME (AP) ��� Police on Monday arrested a Tajik national accused of being an active member of the Islamic State group after he landed at Rome���s international airport on a flight from the Netherlands, authorities said. An international arrest warrant accused the man, identified only as S.I., of hav UConn takes precautions to prevent a repeat of the vandalism that followed the 2023 title game 04/08/2024 11:37am • STORRS, Conn. (AP) ��� Precautions were in place Monday at the University of Connecticut designed to prevent a repeat of the violence and vandalism that marred the celebrations of the school's 2023 NCAA men's basketball championship. In advance of the Final Four, the school removed the aluminum ligh Book Review: Jen Silverman���s gripping second novel explores the long afterlife of political violence 04/08/2024 10:29am • Earlier this year a former member of the far-left Baader-Meinhof gang who spent decades in hiding was arrested by German police in connection with a string of crimes. It was just another example of the long afterlife of the anti-war movement of the late 1960s, which Jen Silverman explores in a brill Anger in Malaysia over shoes bearing logo resembling Arabic word for God. Company head apologizes 04/08/2024 09:37am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� A Malaysian shoe company has apologized and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God. Vern���s Holdings said the logo stamped on the soles of some high-heeled shoes depicted the silhouette of a Brazil Supreme Court strikes down military intervention thesis in symbolic vote for democracy 04/08/2024 09:33am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil���s Supreme Court unanimously voted Monday that the armed forces have no constitutional power to intervene in disputes between government branches, a largely symbolic decision aimed at bolstering democracy after years of increasing threat of military intervention. The court Greece will set up a national shelter network in response to woman's slaying outside police station 04/08/2024 08:32am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece���s minister in charge of police announced plans Monday to set up a nationwide network of domestic violence shelters, days after the fatal stabbing of a woman outside a police station. The April 2 killing of 28-year Kyriaki Griva occurred as she was seeking police prot An espionage scandal rocks Austria, laying bare alleged Russian spying operations across Europe 04/08/2024 08:01am • VIENNA (AP) ��� Austria faces its biggest espionage scandal in decades as the arrest of a former intelligence officer brings to light evidence of extensive Russian infiltration, lax official oversight and behavior worthy of a spy novel. Egisto Ott was arrested March 29. The 86-page arrest warrant, o Spain court calls on fugitive Catalan secessionist Carles Puigdemont to testify in terrorism probe 04/08/2024 07:50am • MADRID (AP) ��� Spain���s Supreme Court on Monday called on fugitive former Catalonia President and separatist chief Carles Puigdemont to testify as a defendant in a terrorism investigation over protests linked to the region���s failed 2017 independence referendum. A court statement said Puigdemont, Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year 04/08/2024 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Maia Kobabe���s graphic memoir ���Gender Queer��� continues its troubled run as the country���s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association���s ���challenged books��� list for a third straight year. Kobabe���s coming-of-age story was published in 2019, and re Candidates spar in Mexico's first presidential debate ahead of June 2 election 04/08/2024 01:19am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� In Mexico���s first presidential debate on Sunday ahead of June 2 elections, former Mexico City Mayor and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared comfortable with her polling lead, remaining calm amid ex-Senator X��chitl G��lvez's personal attacks. Jorge ��lvarez M��ynez, a candi US treads carefully in responding to Hong Kong's new national security law 04/08/2024 12:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. has denounced Hong Kong���s new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted, disappointing those fighting for the Chinese territory's democracy and freedoms. Since th Zibanejad, Panarin lead Rangers to 5-2 win over Canadiens 04/07/2024 11:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Mika Zibanejad had two goals and an assist, Artemi Panarin had a goal and three assists, and the New York Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 on Sunday night. Chris Kreider and Alexis Lafreniere also scored, and Igor Shesterkin had 26 saves to help the Rangers get their 53rd wi Hank Aaron rose above racist hate mail and threats in pursuit of Ruth's home run record 50 years ago 04/07/2024 09:51pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Hank Aaron refused to be intimidated by racist hate mail or threats during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record. Aaron's teammates, including Dusty Baker, worried on his behalf even as the future Hall of Famer circled the bases following his record-breaking 715th homer on Apri Boy trapped and killed after a truck crashes into river in Colorado, sheriff says 04/07/2024 08:31pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A 12-year-old boy was trapped and killed after a truck went off the road and into a river in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, authorities said Sunday. The truck was submerged in the river when law enforcement arrived at the crash scene Saturday night, finding two women with cuts