Ukraine confronts tougher fight in push to extend battlefield wins

Ukrainian forces have impressed the world with their counteroffensive, but both sides are gearing up to continue the fight well into next year.

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Kamala Harris to visit front-line Philippine island in sea feud

On Monday, she meets President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for talks aimed at reinforcing Washington's oldest treaty alliance in Asia and strengthening economic ties.

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Shells hit near nuclear plant; blackouts roll across Ukraine

In renewed shelling both close to and at the site, IAEA experts at the Zaporizhzhia facility reported hearing more than a dozen blasts within a short period Sunday morning and could see some explosions from their windows.

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AFN will show matches from soccer’s World Cup

First match set to air Monday evening in Europe and early Tuesday morning in Pacific. U.S. team begins play a day later.

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Gunman kills 5 at gay nightclub and is subdued by patrons, police say

The violence is the sixth mass killing this month and comes in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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Local activists deliver water to Kapilina residents affected by Red Hill

The mutual aid effort began nearly a year ago when community members rallied together to deliver water, toys and other goods to Kapilina residents affected by the Red Hill crisis.

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4 drowned, 5 missing from capsized boat off Florida Keys, Coast Guard says

At least four people are believed to have drowned and rescuers were searching for another five people off the Florida Keys after a homemade vessel capsized during a failed migration attempt.

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WWII’s Ritchie Boys proposed for a Congressional Gold Medal

The Ritchie Boys were trained to interrogate prisoners of war who were brought to the site, to translate and intercept messages, to engage in psychological warfare against the Nazis.

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Turkey strikes in Syria, Iraq a week after Istanbul bombing

Warplanes attacked bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and the Syrian People's Protection Units, or YPG, the defense ministry said in a statement.

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Ukraine says it will look into alleged prisoner shooting video

Ukraine says it will investigate video footage circulated on Russian social media that Moscow alleged shows that Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who may have been trying to surrender.

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Qatar’s World Cup opener shows country’s reemergence after boycott

The presence of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi shows how far Qatar has come since the boycott that saw its sole land border and air routes cut off for years as part of a political dispute.

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