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Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
August 18, 2026

PM reportedly exchanged messages with White House impostor

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as US President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to reports published yesterday. A spokesperson for…
A firefighter working on rescue efforts holds a Colombian flag amid the rubble three days after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, August 13.
August 18, 2026

President asks Trump to suspend tariffs to help earthquake recovery

BOGOTÁ (AP): Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally US President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that…
In this August 8, 2017, file photo, The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
August 18, 2026

Disney sues FCC over challenge to broadcast licenses, claiming retaliation over ‘Jimmy Kimmel’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Disney filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission, alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights. The suit comes after FCC…
Policeman Joshua Hamlet, who is charged with murder, leaving a magistrate court in Roseau, Dominica on August 17, 2026.
August 18, 2026

Second policeman in Dominica charged with murder of teen girl

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Police officer Joshua Hamlet has been remanded to prison until October 2, as he became the second member of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) to be charged with…
FILE - A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
August 18, 2026

ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty…
A guard secures an area at the junior high school building on the Ateneo de Zamboanga University campus following a shooting incident in Zamboanga, southern Philippines Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo)
August 18, 2026

Student kills schoolmate and himself in livestreamed Philippine school attack, official says

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack on a southern Philippine high school campus that he…
A farmhand harvests avocados at an orchard in Santa Ana Zirosto, Michoacan sate, Mexico.
August 17, 2026

Avocado pickers welcome restart of exports to US, but security fears remain

SANTA ANA ZIROSTO (AP) — It didn’t take long for Mexican avocado picker Francisco Isidro to get back to work after authorities announced the lifting of a US security alert that temporarily halted…
A journalist browses the Messina museum website showing a picture of the Early Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina’s artwork where three of the five panels belonging to the Polyptych of San Gregorio and the double-sided panel with the Madonna and th
August 17, 2026

Thieves steal Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist

MILAN (AP) Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, the…
Flags wave in the wind in front of an enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest during the inauguration in the village Konotopie, Poland.
August 17, 2026

Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary is inaugurated in a small village

KONOTOPIE (AP) An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, in the presence of legendary anti-communist leader…