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Pakistan with help from Interpol arrest a Pakistani woman convicted of murder in Italy, police say 05/31/2024 12:52pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistani police working closely with Interpol have raided a home in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and arrested a Pakistani woman convicted in Italy of killing her daughter, officials said Friday. Nazia Shaheen was arrested in a village in Pakistan-administered Kashmir El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele's inauguration 05/31/2024 12:50pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele���s inauguration on Saturday. The country���s National Police said the plot involved ���veterans��� of the country���s 1980-1992 civil war, 6 injured in a knife attack in the German city of Mannheim. Police shot and wounded the assailant 05/31/2024 12:25pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� A man stabbed several members of a group that describes itself as opposing ���political Islam��� on a central square in the German city of Mannheim on Friday, authorities said. Six people were wounded, including a police officer who intervened. Police quickly put an end to the attack Editorial Roundup: United States 05/31/2024 12:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 29 The Washington Post on America���s economic mood remains glum. This is despite great news: Growth is strong; the stock market just hit record levels; unemployment is low; and inflation has significantly cooled in the past year. Former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani registers as a possible presidential candidate 05/31/2024 10:28am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� A former speaker of Iran's parliament registered Friday as a possible candidate in the Islamic Republic's June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this month with seven others. Ali Larijani is t 1 man killed after police shooting in Silver Spring, was allegedly assaulting mother 05/31/2024 10:14am • An hourslong barricade in Silver Spring, Maryland, ended with a man killed by Montgomery County police officers early Thursday morning. The situation began at around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday evening after police received a call by a family member about a person in distress inside an apartment located Minneapolis police officer dies in ambush shooting that killed 2 others including suspected gunman 05/31/2024 09:52am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A Minneapolis police officer responding to a shooting call was ambushed and killed Thursday when he stopped to provide aid to a man who appeared to be a victim. That man instead wound up shooting the officer, authorities said. The death of Officer Jamal Mitchell happened during US lawmakers push to sanction Iranian officials over death sentence for rapper Toomaj Salehi 05/31/2024 09:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Friday targeting Iranian officials involved in the prosecution and death sentence of a rapper who came to fame for his lyrics about the 2022 death of an Iranian woman and his criticism of the Islamic Republic. The proposal wo Police say several people have been hurt in a stabbing attack in the German city of Mannheim 05/31/2024 07:10am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Police say several people have been hurt in a stabbing attack in the German city of Mannheim. Police break up a network that illegally helped foreigners stay in Thailand, arresting dozens 05/31/2024 06:04am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thai police have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term through the use of company nominees or shell companies, officials said Friday. Police said a 45-year-old Russian woman who came to Thailand in 2012 operated th French authorities regain full control of New Caledonia's capital after days of deadly unrest 05/31/2024 05:36am • French authorities in New Caledonia regained full control of their Pacific territory's capital, the French interior and overseas minister said on Friday after two weeks of unrest that had left seven people dead and significant destruction in the archipelago that has seen decades of tensions between Slovak prime minister who was shot in an assassination attempt is released from the hospital 05/31/2024 05:10am • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Slovakia���s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, said on Friday that Fico was transported to Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed 05/31/2024 04:49am • LONDON (AP) ��� What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the answer to that question is often: quite a lot. The history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when the Allies stormed the beaches of northern France o Months after nation's 1st nitrogen gas execution, Alabama gives man lethal injection for 2 killings 05/31/2024 12:40am • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) ��� An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the 2004 deaths of an elderly couple who police said were attacked with a hammer, machete and tire tool during a robbery at their home. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at Tennessee officers accused of shielding a man committing sex crimes. Police deny extortion 05/31/2024 12:19am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A federal lawsuit claims police officers took thousands of dollars from a businessman in their Tennessee city in exchange for obstructing efforts to investigate allegations that he was sexually assaulting multiple women for years. The police department has denied any wrongd