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Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor knighted for his illustrious career on the stage and screen and who went on to gain admiration from a new generation of mo…
by SYLVIA HUI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 29, 2023Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist who revolutionized India's farming and was a key architect of the country's "Green Revolutio…
by The Associated Press September 29, 2023Three years after unveiling a plan for sweeping reform of the European Union's outdated asylum rules, government ministers struggled on Thursday to overcome ye…
by LORNE COOK The Associated Press September 29, 2023From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the U.S. federal agency tha…
by NICK PERRY The Associated Press September 29, 2023A lone gunman wearing a bullet-resistant vest opened fire in an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam on Thursday, killing three people,…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports September 29, 2023NATO's secretary-general met with Ukraine's president to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine's …
by HANNA ARHIROVA The Associated Press September 29, 2023Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday heard a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, which critics say is designed to protect…
by TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI The Associated Press September 29, 2023Sweden seeks military aid against crime
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports September 29, 2023Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has die…
by The Associated Press September 28, 2023Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine's Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week's missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters on the annexe…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports September 28, 2023The U.S. has secured the release of a U.S. soldier who sprinted across a heavily fortified border into North Korea more than two months ago, and he is on his w…
by MATTHEW LEE, KIM TONG-HYUNG and LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press September 28, 2023As they watched the bride and groom start their slow dance, Faten Youssef imagined the future wedding of her son, seated next to her at a reception table. With…
by FARID ABDULWAHED and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA The Associated Press September 28, 2023Andreas Rohrmoser has been forging thousands of wrought-iron pans the old-fashioned way in his centuries-old hammer mill in the Bavarian village of Bad Oberdor…
by The Associated Press September 28, 2023Burkina Faso junta says coup thwarted
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports September 28, 2023Polish and U.S. officials signed an agreement Wednesday in Warsaw to move forward with the construction of Poland's first nuclear power plant as part of an eff…
by The Associated Press September 28, 2023