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Soccer player returns to warm welcome in Israel following detention in Turkey 01/15/2024 11:49am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel returned to Israel on Monday evening to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained in Turkey for allegedly inciting hatred after he expressed solidarity with hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza during a top-flight league game. Belarus political prisoner dies after authorities fail to provide him with medical care, group says 01/15/2024 11:36am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care, a human rights group said Monday, a death that spotlighted cruel conditions in Belarusian prisons. Vadzim Khrasko died of pneumonia in a penal colony near t Flight school owner, student pilot among dead in Massachusetts small plane crash 01/15/2024 11:15am • BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a flight school and a student pilot were among three people who died in a small plane crash in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts over the weekend, state police said Monday. Fredrika Ballard, 53, of Southwick, Massachusetts, owned the Fly Lugu Flight School while Wil Vandalism probe opened after swastika painted on Philadelphia wall adjacent to Holocaust memorial 01/15/2024 10:41am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have opened a vandalism investigation into the spray-painting of a swastika on a wall adjacent to a Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia over the weekend. Authorities say the symbol, measuring about two feet by two feet and scrawled with green spray-paint, was reported Sun Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar 01/15/2024 10:07am • BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military that is based in the country’s western state of Rakhine has seized a township bordering India and Bangladesh, the group declared Monday, confirming accounts by local residents and media. Paletwa is the first township repo Kosovo remembers 45 people killed in 1999 and denounces Serbia for not apologizing 01/15/2024 09:55am • RECAK, Kosovo (AP) — Hundreds of Kosovars gathered in a southern village on Monday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a mass killing of 45 ethnic Albanians by Serb forces, an event that helped spark international intervention to end a 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, Prime Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea 01/15/2024 09:44am • Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launche A Cambodian court convicts activists for teaching about class differences, suspends their jail terms 01/15/2024 07:08am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia on Monday convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions and gave them five-year suspended prison terms. The four — Theng Savoeun, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Iran sentences imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to an additional prison term 01/15/2024 06:23am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Iran has slapped imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi with an additional sentence of 15 months for allegedly spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic, her family said Monday. According to a post on Instagram by Mohammadi 's Some schools reopen and garbage collection resumes in Japan's areas hardest-hit by New Year's quake 01/15/2024 06:04am • TOKYO (AP) — Two weeks after the deadly New Year's Day earthquake struck Japan's north-central region of Noto, some schools reopened and limited garbage collection resumed Monday in rare hopeful signs amid the devastation that thousands of people still face in the area. The magnitude 7.6 earthquak Bernardo Arévalo sworn in as Guatemala's president despite months of efforts to derail inauguration 01/15/2024 03:43am • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s president on Monday minutes after midnight despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power. Arévalo arrives in the presidency after winning Police search for the suspect who shot and killed a man at a Starbucks in southwestern Japan 01/15/2024 02:10am • TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police were searching Monday for a suspect who shot and killed a customer at a Starbucks the previous day in what was reportedly a gang-related crime. The man was fatally shot in the chest at a shopping mall in the city of Shikokuchuo in Ehime prefecture on the southwestern m Today in History: January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. is born 01/15/2024 12:01am • Today in History: Today is Monday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2024. There are 351 days left in the year. This is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. On this date: In 1559, England†Police: 17-year-old killed, 2 others injured in Fairfax County's first homicide of 2024 01/14/2024 09:04pm • A 17-year-old boy is dead and two others are wounded following a stabbing in Annandale, Virginia, on Saturday. The killing marks what police say is Fairfax County's first homicide of the year. It happened at around 11:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of Wadsworth Court, according to Fairfax County polic 2 separate armed assaults in Northwest DC stopped by good Samaritans minutes apart, police say 01/14/2024 08:00pm • Two separate armed assaults allegedly occurred just minutes apart and within a mile of each other on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C. last Thursday. In both instances, police said, the violence stopped when the suspects were confronted by good Samaritans. The first incident was a reported att