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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week …

MOSCOW (AP) – Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to free a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday, suggesting that she will be swapped for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine this week. Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014, was …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s president on Tuesday led state ceremonies honoring the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, young Jews who took up arms to fight against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II rather than be transported to a death camp. President Andrzej Duda led the ceremonies …

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Latest on the militant assault on an Afghan government security compound in Kabul (all times local): 5:45 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent his condolences to the victims and their families following the Taliban attack on a government security agency in Kabul that killed …

Brazilian legislators pushing to remove President Dilma Rousseff for alleged fiscal irregularities won a major victory Sunday in the lower house of Congress, gaining a 367-137 vote in favor of her impeachment. A look at what happens now: NEXT STEP: The measure now goes to the Senate, which must decide …

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – For the second time in under a quarter century, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted to open impeachment proceedings against a democratically elected leader, dealing a devastating blow to President Dilma Rousseff, whose left-leaning Workers’ Party came to power 13 year ago on the promise of improving …

PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (AP) – It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative’s start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when a collapsing building crushed 17-year-old Sayira Quinde, her mother, father and toddler brother in their rusting Chevy Blazer. A grief-stricken aunt, Johana Estupinan, …

MINAMIASO, Japan (AP) – U.S. airlifts delivered water, bread, ready-to-eat food and other emergency supplies Monday to a remote area of southern Japan stricken by two powerful earthquakes, as local rescuers searched for nine people still reported missing. Authorities said at least 42 people died and more than 1,000 were …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Indonesia on Monday convened an unprecedented discussion of anti-communist massacres in 1965-66 that brought together survivors and representatives of the military that orchestrated the atrocities. Protesters who say the two-day conference will help revive communism scuffled with police outside the tightly guarded venue, in a sign …

MORIA, Greece (AP) – Pope Francis gave Europe a concrete lesson Saturday in welcoming refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis. Refugees on the overwhelmed island …