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LONDON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in London on Wednesday to meet new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and visit the Bayeux Tapestry at its temporary home in the British Museum. The two leaders and their spouses will join King Charles III and Queen Camilla for a private viewing of the 230-foot (70-meter) tapestry, a 1,000-year-old symbol of Anglo-French relations that depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066. […]

If Kansas megachurch pastor and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton manages to pull off an upset victory in his race for a U.S. Senate seat, he’d join a very small group. In the past 100 years, only incumbent Raphael Warnock of Georgia has accomplished what Hamilton aspires to do: serve in the Senate while continuing to lead his congregation. Warnock has continued to preach regularly as senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist […]

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Adam Hamilton has spent decades trying to bring people to Jesus as founder of the nation’s largest United Methodist church. Now he wants to bring Kansas voters to the polls as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. A first-time candidate, Hamilton faces an unusual balancing act between political ambition and spiritual obligation. His pastoral role has given him rare prominence for a Democrat in a state […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil giant Chevron is confirming that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron said Wednesday that it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where the company has an established position. Joint venture plans include investing more than […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian aerial attacks struck apartment buildings in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Odesa regions overnight and Wednesday morning, wounding at least eight civilians, local officials said. The Ukrainian air force said those two regions bore the brunt of the latest attacks on the country. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into its fifth year following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. The […]

BERLIN (AP) — Two incidents that disrupted power distribution systems in the west and east of Germany are being invested as possible sabotage, authorities said. Multiple explosive devices were found Tuesday morning at a substation near the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg in northeast Germany. No general power outage resulted, but a few of the devices caused short circuits, authorities said. Separately, a short circuit that caused several power […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A tugboat capsized and sank off South Korea’s southeastern coast on Wednesday, leaving one crew member dead and six others missing, the coast guard said. The 286-ton tugboat was carrying eight crew members when it departed Wednesday morning to tow a merchant vessel in the waters off South Korea’s southeastern city of Busan, the coast guard said in a statement. After the tugboat overturned, one […]

NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Authorities in Nepal have been working for days to find more survivors of the devastating flash flood that ravaged the Himalayan nation and neighbouring Tibet, killing over 1,000 people, with thousands more still missing.  Here is a look at the situation on the ground, a week after the disaster struck.        WHAT HAPPENED? An unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris descended the mountains on […]

VILNIUS, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Estonia’s parliament elected constitutional lawyer Ulle Madise as the Baltic country’s next president on Wednesday, making her the second woman to hold the largely ceremonial post. Madise, 51, has been Estonia’s human rights ombudsman since 2015, and will hold the position of president for the next five years. Estonia, a nation of 1.4 million people bordering Russia, is among the strongest supporters of Ukraine and […]