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The Russian-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk appeared to be on the brink of becoming another Mariupol on Monday as services and aid have been cut and Moscow seeks to capture all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region. Luhansk regional Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Russians have...

European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will...

It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia's capital. Nearly all the wheat sold in Somalia comes from Ukraine and Russia, which have halted exports through the Black...

The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region and the challenges of fighting it, the U.N. said Monday. The 1.008 billion tablets was part of...

Jim Pasco, the executive director for the Fraternal Order of Police, was watching football on a Sunday afternoon when he got a call from Susan Rice, the top domestic policy adviser at the White House. Negotiations over an executive order to address racism and policing were in danger of breaking...

Colombian voters opted for a dramatic change in presidential politics, choosing a leftist former rebel and an outsider populist businessman to advance to a runoff election in June amid hopes a new face can pull them out of the economic damage from the pandemic. Leftist Sen. Gustavo Petro led...

Hurricane Agatha, the season's first, headed for a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns on Mexico's southern Pacific coast Monday amid warnings of dangerous storm surge and flooding from heavy rains. After forming on Sunday, Agatha quickly gained power, and it was predicted to make...

For Georgina Matilda, working for Chinese infrastructure company China Railway means that she can put food on the table for her children. Like many Fijians, Matilda sees a benefit in foreign investment wherever it comes from, so long as it uplifts the people. “I think Chinese is good coming in...

Asian stocks rose Monday after Wall Street rebounded from a seven-week string of declines and China eased anti-virus curbs on business activity in Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil rose more than $1 per barrel to stay above $110. On Wall Street, the...

Across the area on Sunday, heavy rain flooded the streets. In Hialeah, up to five inches of rain fell, leading to a slow commute. There where similar sights in Plantation and Fort Lauderdale, where close to two inches of rain fell. In a tweet, the Miami Police Department said crews responded...

The energy was electric as fans filed through the doors of FTX Arena for Sunday’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Heat and Boston Celtics. Despite the nasty weather that greeted folks in downtown Miami, die hard Heat fans remained focused. “We’re trying to get jerseys like...

The wreckage of a plane missing since Sunday in Nepal's mountains was located Monday, Nepal army official said. There was no word on survivors. The army posted on Twitter an aerial photo of the wreckage site with parts of the aircraft scattered around the mountainside. There was no word on any...

Authorities said a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire. An arrest warrant was issued for Skyler...

New details are emerging following a deadly shooting outside a Miami-Dade music studio. The family of the victim, 51-year-old Louis Calvin Howard III, is seeking answers after his unexpected death. “It’s a shock,” said Victor Howard, the victim’s brother. “It’s tearing my family apart.” The...

Police in Broward County are investigating a fatal crash involving a motorcyclist. It happened along the 7100 block of Peters Road in Plantation at approximately 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Heavy rain had been moving through the area around the time of the crash. According to Plantation police, the...

Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was arrested this weekend on suspicion of DUI in Northern California, police records showed Sunday. Paul Pelosi was taken into custody late Saturday in Napa County north of San Francisco, according to a sheriff's...

Deputies on Florida’s west coast made an arrest after a school shooting threat was made. Authorities said that threat was made by a 10-year-old. The fifth grader allegedly sent text messages about inciting violence at his elementary school. The threats are being taken seriously by the Lee...

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band has died. His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after an...

The first hurricane of the season formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Sunday and rapidly gained power ahead of an expected strike along a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns. Hurricane Agatha could make landfall at close to major hurricane force on Monday in the area near...

The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead. The review comes amid mounting pressure and questions about the shifting and at times contradictory information about what happened in...