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An election in Kiribati provokes Western alarm about Beijing's sway in Pacific atoll nation 08/14/2024 04:11am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� People in Kiribati went to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government���s stronger ties with China. A second round of voting is scheduled on Aug. 19 for all p Students who ousted Hasina are helping lead Bangladesh, from the streets to the ministries 08/14/2024 01:54am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Within a week of unseating Bangladesh���s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka���s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan for 3 years. Here are 5 things to know 08/14/2024 12:46am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� It���s been three years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. They have transitioned from insurgency to authority, imposed their interpretation of Islamic law and sought to reinforce their claim to legitimacy. Despite no international recognition as the country's Maine regulators reject utility proposal to report suspected marijuana grow operations to police 08/13/2024 11:06pm • Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility's proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to aid police crackdown on illicit operations. The three-member Public Utilities Commis Israel-Hamas war latest: Iran rejects European leaders' call to refrain from any retaliatory attacks 08/13/2024 10:36pm • Iran rejected a call Tuesday by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions. Iran calls it an ���excessive request.��� The leaders of Britain, France and Germany in a joint statement Monday asked Iran and its allies to refr Family and friends of actor Johnny Wactor urge more action to find his killers 08/13/2024 09:07pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Family and friends of actor Johnny Wactor called for action Tuesday from the public and officials to help find and convict his killers. The former ���General Hospital��� actor was shot on May 25 when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car in downto Ferguson police release body camera footage showing protester knocking officer to sidewalk 08/13/2024 08:38pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� Ferguson police on Tuesday released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police officer to the ground on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown���s death, leaving the Missouri officer with a life-threatening brain injury. Police Chief Troy Doyle Guatemala police arrest member of President Bernardo Ar��valo's administration 08/13/2024 08:15pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Guatemala���s police arrested a member of President Bernardo Ar��valo���s administration Tuesday for alleged campaign finance violations amid a months-long pursuit of his political party by federal prosecutors. Ligia Hern��ndez, head of the government���s victims��� advocacy Officer faces murder charge in shooting of pregnant Black woman who was accused of shoplifting 08/13/2024 07:55pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on murder and other charges in the shooting of Ta���Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting last August. Young was suspected of stealing bottles of alcohol when Blendon Towns 2nd woman sentenced in straw purchase of gun used to kill Illinois officer and wound another 08/13/2024 06:48pm • URBANA, Ill. (AP) ��� An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to four years in prison after taking part in the straw purchase of a handgun that was used to kill one central Illinois police officer and wound another during a shootout. Ashantae Corruthers, 30, appeared at a sentencing hearing Tuesday Bangladesh's ex-Premier Hasina calls for probe into killings during unrest that led to her ouster 08/13/2024 05:54pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on Tuesday from self-exile in India for an investigation into those responsible for the killings of students and others during weeks of violent protests that prompted her ouster. Hasina, who stepped down and fled Bang December execution date set for man convicted of killing a young Missouri girl 08/13/2024 05:32pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a December execution date for Christopher Collings, who was convicted of raping and killing a 9-year-old girl nearly two decades ago. Collings is scheduled to die by a chemical injection at 6 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the state prison in Man accused of breaking into Loudoun Co. Public Defender's Office held without bond 08/13/2024 04:47pm • A 22-year-old man is being held without bond in Loudoun County, Virginia, after being accused of breaking through a security-enhanced door to enter the office of the Loudoun County Public Defender in downtown Leesburg. Leesburg police said Riley Biro, of no known address, burst into the office on Man dead, another charged with first-degree murder in Montgomery Co. shooting 08/13/2024 04:45pm • A man was arrested on a charge of murder after the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Monday. Montgomery County police said in a news release that officers were dispatched to the 19300 block of Club House Road at 11:38 a.m. in the Montgomery Village neighborhoo Senegal's media outlets stage a blackout day to bring attention to press freedom concerns 08/13/2024 04:37pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Media organizations in Senegal staged a blackout day on Tuesday to protest a government crackdown they say targets them directly and is aimed at curtailing press freedoms in the West African country. Television screens went blank on the main TV stations TFM, ITV and 7 TV, an