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Oklahoma now becomes the first state in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure. (Image credit: Sue Ogrocki/AP)

BEIJING — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting the South Pacific with a 20-person delegation this week in a display of Beijing’s growing military and diplomatic presence in the region. The U.S. has traditionally been the area’s major power,

A giant mural of one of the most popular memes of the Ukraine war has been painted on a building in Kyiv, causing outrage.

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Local and state officials in Texas release more information, while Americans across the nation continue to express shock and grief at the massacre. (Image credit: Jae C. Hong/AP)

Caught out by drone attacks and ambushes, Russian patrols began targeting civilians for interrogation in the weeks following the Ukraine invasion, convinced that citizens were taking photos of their positions or passing other information about their formations to Ukrainian forces.

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HONOLULU (AP) — After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort on Waikiki beach, housekeeper Luz Espejo collected enough trash, some strewn under beds, to stuff seven large garbage bags. She stripped the linens

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Australia was scrambling to counter the move by sending its own Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Fiji to shore up support in the Pacific. (Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP)