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What's at stake in the European Parliament election that concludes Sunday? 06/09/2024 02:12am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 400 million European Union citizens have been going to polls this week to elect members of the European Parliament, or MEPs, in one of the biggest global democratic events. Far-right parties are seeking to gain more power amid a rise in the cost of living and farmers' disco Colombia will suspend coal exports to Israel over war in Gaza 06/08/2024 09:49pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Saturday that his country will suspend coal exports to Israel over the war in Gaza, as relations sour between two countries that were once close military and commercial allies. Petro wrote on the social media platform X that co Israel rescues 4 hostages taken in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, and 210 Palestinians are reported killed 06/08/2024 08:42pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Saturday carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the latest war with Hamas began, taking four to safety out of central Gaza in a heavy air and ground assault. At least 210 Palestinians, including children, were killed, a Gaza health officia Aid is delivered to Gaza from newly repaired US-built pier, US military says 06/08/2024 08:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The first aid from an American-built pier arrived in Gaza on Saturday since storm damage required repairs to the project, the U.S. military said, relaunching an effort to bring supplies to Palestinians by sea that had been plagued with problems. The pier constructed by the U.S. m Assault on Danish prime minister is the latest in a recent spate of attacks on European politicians 06/08/2024 10:59am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Slovakia's prime minister was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt last month and still faces a long recovery. The Danish prime minister was assaulted by a man Friday evening in downtown Copenhagen. German politicians have faced a wave of physical and verbal attack Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home 06/08/2024 01:09am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather, Voting in Harmony: A Wisconsin township sets itself apart and has a knack for picking winners 06/08/2024 12:03am • HARMONY, Wis. (AP) — It's hard living in harmony during these politically divisive times. But residents of a tiny Wisconsin town say they have the simple answer: actually live in Harmony. Residents of Harmony Township — spread out on rich farmland and residential subdivisions on the outskirts of Mexico's outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness 06/07/2024 10:27pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing president pledged Friday to press ahead with j udicial reforms despite nervousness among investors and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should go slow. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would pursue 20 constitutional change 3 Americans implicated in a coup attempt in Congo go on trial before a military court 06/07/2024 08:07pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Three Americans accused of being involved in last month's coup attempt in Congo appeared in a military court in the country's capital, Kinshasa, on Friday, along with dozens of other defendants who were lined up on plastic chairs before the judge on the first day of the hear GameStop shares plunge even as meme stock booster 'Roaring Kitty' says company is on the right track 06/07/2024 06:04pm • The meme stock protagonist known as Roaring Kitty took to YouTube Friday to tell his hordes of followers that he still believes GameStop’s management team can turn the struggling video game retailer around. In a live stream that drew more than 600,000 views Roaring Kitty, whose real name is Keith Irish and Czech voters go to the polls on Day 2 of EU elections as the far right seeks more power 06/07/2024 05:09pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic, two countries where immigration was a key issue on the campaign trail, took to the polls on Friday, the second day of the balloting for the European Parliament. A surge of the far-right across the 27-nation bloc was likely to emerge from th The Latest | Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, a day after strike on school killed 33 06/07/2024 04:58pm • An Israeli airstrike hit a U.N.-run school compound in northern Gaza on Friday, killing three people according to Palestinian emergency officials, a day after a similar strike on a school in Gaza's center killed at least 33 people. In both airstrikes, the Israeli army said Hamas militants were opera Mississippi is the latest state sued by tech group over age verification on websites 06/07/2024 04:18pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults, a tech industry group says in a lawsuit filed Friday. Legislators said the new law is designed to prot Vietnam national security police confirm arrest of prominent writer Truong Huy San for Facebook post 06/07/2024 01:24pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Vietnam announced Friday that they have charged prominent journalist and historian Truong Huy San with violating a national security law because of writing he had posted on Facebook, the website of the newspaper Tuoi Tre and other state media reported. The reports cit Trump film 'The Apprentice' made noise in Cannes, but it still lacks a US distributor 06/07/2024 09:47am • NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks after its much-anticipated premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a film about Donald Trump in the 1980s is still seeking distribution in the United States. In Cannes, “The Apprentice" unveiled a scathing portrait of the former U.S. President as a young man. The film, st