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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis plans to visit the United Arab Emirates in February to push for Christian-Muslim dialogue and peace in the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula. The Feb. 3-5 trip to Abu Dhabi centers around an interfaith meeting, the Vatican said Thursday. Francis will also have the chance to meet with

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis plans to visit the United Arab Emirates in February, adding another trip to an already busy 2019 for foreign travel. The Vatican said Thursday that Francis would be participating in an interfaith meeting during the Feb. 3-5 trip to Abu Dhabi. The theme of the trip is peace, with the

BATON ROUGE, La. — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco says there’s “no escape” from the incurable cancer that has spread throughout her body. News outlets report Blanco was honored Wednesday by the Council for a Better Louisiana and gave what felt like a farewell speech. Blanco is the state’s first elected woman governor and served

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma has been laid to rest with military honors. A funeral was held Wednesday in White Plains, New York, for Olivia Hooker. She was 103 years old when she

MILAN — Ukraine’s foreign minister is demanding the release and safe return of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured by Russian military forces in the Black Sea. Pavlo Klimkin told the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday that even though Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 has dominated the group’s agenda for

ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities are deploying about 2,500 police in Athens to monitor demonstrations marking the 10th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager that sparked Greece’s most extensive riots in decades. Hundreds of protesters gathered in central Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Thursday for the first of several

BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian court has postponed ruling on an extradition request for a Turkish journalist accused by Turkey of terrorism. The Court of Appeal said Thursday it would defer judgment to Dec. 14 on Kamil Demirkaya, whom Turkish prosecutors accuse of links to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric blamed by Turkey for orchestrating

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Police in the breakaway north of ethnically split Cyprus say the bodies of three people have been recovered from river beds at two different locations after flash floods are believed to have swept them away. Turkish Cypriot news agency TAK quoted police as saying Thursday that authorities are looking for a car

NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations human rights office on Thursday said Burundi’s government has asked it to leave, months after the outgoing U.N. rights chief called the country one of the “most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times.” Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani in Geneva confirmed they received a letter on Wednesday “requesting us to

MOSCOW — Russia’s highest court has upheld a land swap deal in the North Caucasus which caused large-scale protests. Thousands of people rallied for days earlier this year after the leaders of the provinces of Ingushetia and Chechnya signed the agreement to exchange unpopulated plots of agricultural land. The deal and the secretive manner in

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Captain Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls combined in a terrific double-century stand to propel New Zealand’s lead against Pakistan to a valuable 198 runs in the third test on Thursday. Williamson, who resumed on the fourth day on 14, batted the entire day and grafted an unbeaten 139 off

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Unbeaten partners Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls pushed New Zealand’s second-innings lead to 125 runs against Pakistan on the fourth day of the third test on Thursday. Captain Williamson grafted an unbeaten 105 off 166 balls with some impeccable boundaries through covers and together with Nicholls, who was 54

China is demanding that Canada release a Huawei Technologies executive arrested for possible extradition to the United States. Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested Saturday in Vancouver, Canada. The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing law enforcement sources, said she is suspected of trying to evade U.S. curbs on trade with Iran. Here are

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court has acquitted a former Premier League player of match-fixing charges. Dickson Etuhu, a former central midfielder with Swedish club AIK and Nigeria’s national team, had been charged with trying to bribe teammate Kenny Stamatopoulos to fix the result of a league match against IFK Gothenburg in May 2017. The game

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration separated 81 migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border since the June executive order that stopped the general practice amid a crackdown on illegal crossings, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. Despite the order and a federal judge’s later ruling, immigration officials are allowed to

DOWNS, Ill. — The Latest on a crash involving a school bus in central Illinois (all times local): 4:50 a.m. Authorities say a semitrailer heading the wrong way on an interstate in central Illinois collided head-on with a school bus carrying members of a high school basketball team, killing the driver of the truck and

MOSCOW — The Russian Olympic Committee says it’s appealed a Moscow court ruling which sought to overturn a doping disqualification against a double gold medalist from the Sochi Winter Olympics. The Moscow City Court ruled last month that bobsledder Alexander Zubkov could keep his medals because a Court of Arbitration for Sport decision to uphold

TOKYO — Some users of SoftBank cellphones had problems calling and text messaging for several hours in Japan. SoftBank Corp. spokesman Naomasa Suzuki said the problems started early Thursday afternoon and were gradually being fixed. He said they were caused by a mechanical problem in the 4G telecommunications systems. In some cases, the 3G network

LONDON — As the shipping industry faces pressure to cut climate-altering greenhouse gases, one answer is blowing in the wind. European and U.S. tech companies, including one backed by airplane maker Airbus, are pitching futuristic sails to help cargo ships harness the free and endless supply of wind power. While they sometimes don’t even look

NAIROBI, Kenya — Officials in Somalia say a bloody rivalry has emerged between extremist groups as the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab hunts upstart fighters allied to the Islamic State group, who have begun demanding extortion payments from major businesses. The conflict supports some observers’ suspicions that al-Shabab, now scrambling to defend its monopoly on the mafia-style extortion

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani officials say supporters of the country’s opposition leader, Shahbaz Sharif, have clashed with police in the eastern city of Lahore, leaving dozens of protesters hurt. Thursday’s violence erupted when riot police used batons to prevent Sharif’s supporters from reaching an anti-graft tribunal where he appeared to face a pre-trial hearing over

BEIJING — A Chinese government spokesman says Beijing will “immediately implement” terms of a tariff cease-fire with Washington and is “full of confidence” a trade agreement can be reached within 90 days. The Commerce Ministry spokesman, Gao Feng, said Thursday that talks will start by focusing on trade in farm goods, energy and automobiles. Asked

PARIS — France will deploy more than 65,000 security forces amid fears of new rioting at protests Saturday in Paris and around the nation, despite President Emmanuel Macron’s surrender over a fuel tax hike that unleashed weeks of unrest. Police unions and local authorities held emergency meetings Thursday to strategize on how to handle the

PARIS — Paris police and store owners are bracing for new violence at protests Saturday, despite President Emmanuel Macron’s surrender over a fuel tax hike that unleashed weeks of unrest. Police unions and local authorities are holding emergency meetings Thursday to strategize — while disparate groups of protesters are sharing plans on social networks and

PARIS — Paris police and store owners are bracing for new violence at protests Saturday, despite President Emmanuel Macron’s surrender over a fuel tax hike that unleashed weeks of unrest. Police unions and local authorities are holding emergency meetings Thursday to strategize — while disparate groups of protesters are sharing plans on social networks and