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AP Exclusive: China threatens detention in Xinjiang over banned Uyghur songs 12/29/2025 04:55am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China���s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings. But today, if the 6 Islamic State militants, 3 police officers killed in clash in northwest Turkey, minister says 12/29/2025 03:58am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� 6 Islamic State militants, 3 police officers killed in clash in northwest Turkey, minister says. Fire at Indonesian retirement home kills 16 residents 12/29/2025 03:13am • MANADO, Indonesia (AP) ��� A fire at an Indonesian retirement home killed 16 residents on Sunday evening, police said. The fire in the single-story house in Manado in Indonesia���s North Sulawesi Province started while the residents were asleep, police said Monday. Several people living near the nur Families of Bondi Beach victims demand more federal action on antisemitism and security failures 12/29/2025 01:29am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Families of victims of the recent Sydney massacre that targeted a Jewish festival released an open letter on Monday calling for more federal action to investigate a rise in antisemitism and the security failures behind Australia's worst mass shooting in three decades. T Hawaii hopes stricter laws will quiet illegal fireworks after deadly New Year's Eve blast 12/29/2025 12:00am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of blasts at a house party last New Year's Eve led to the deaths of six people, including a 3-year-old boy. As the director of Hawaii's Department of Law Enforceme 4 dead, dozens injured in Syria during clashes between Alawites and counterdemonstrators 12/28/2025 09:05pm • LATAKIA, Syria (AP) ��� Clashes broke out on Syria���s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, health officials said. The clashes came two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in th Trump says Ukraine and Russia are 'closer than ever' to peace after talks with Zelenskyy 12/28/2025 08:42pm • PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted Ukraine and Russia are ���closer than ever before��� to a peace deal as he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Florida resort, but he acknowledged the negotiations are complex and could still break down, leaving th Midair helicopter crash in New Jersey leaves 1 dead and another critically injured 12/28/2025 07:23pm • HAMMONTON, N.J. (AP) ��� Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say. Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helico Kyle Whittingham confident his style will be a familiar fit as Michigan's football coach 12/28/2025 07:10pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Kyle Whittingham brought plenty of energy on four hours' sleep Sunday when he was introduced as Michigan's football coach, saying it was one of five jobs that could bring him out of a short retirement and offering no hesitation about joining a program in the midst of cultural Knife attack near Suriname���s capital Paramaribo kills at least 9 people, including kids, police say 12/28/2025 05:07pm • PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) ��� A knife attack outside Suriname ���s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday. Officials said the victims included four of the attacker���s children and neighbors who came to their aid. A neighbor���s child was also Central African Republic's incumbent president, a Russian ally, eyes a third term in key elections 12/28/2025 02:41pm • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) ��� Voters in the Central African Republic cast their ballots to elect a new president and federal lawmakers Sunday, with incumbent President Faustin Archange Touad��ra seen as likely to win a third term after trying to stabilize the country with the help of Rus Guineans vote in first election since 2021 coup with junta leader likely to win 12/28/2025 02:29pm • CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) ��� Guineans voted on Sunday to choose a new president in the country���s first election since a 2021 coup, as analysts say a weakened opposition will result in a likely win for junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya. Sunday���s election was the culmination of a transition process t A knife attack outside Suriname's capital kills at least nine people, including children, police say 12/28/2025 12:24pm • PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) ��� A knife attack outside Suriname's capital kills at least nine people, including children, police say. Police arrest Prince William Co. man, seize evidence in online child exploitation case 12/28/2025 10:34am • A Bristow, Virginia, man has been charged with the production of child pornography after police said they found evidence that he was "soliciting underaged minors online for inappropriate acts." Prince William County Police said detectives from the D.C./Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Ch UK leader criticized for applauding return of man freed from Egyptian prison as old tweets resurface 12/28/2025 10:26am • LONDON (AP) ��� The U.K. prime minister is facing criticism after he celebrated the return to Britain of a human rights activist who was recently released from an Egyptian prison but whose past social media posts apparently contained violent and antisemitic language. Successive British governments h