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September 2025

Woman convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases

WELLINGTON (AP): A jury in New Zealand on Tuesday found a woman guilty of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered. The verdict meant the…
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September 2025

Venezuelans in ‘reverse migration’ pushed to new perils in effort to return home

JAQUE (AP): As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense jungle. The…
An Amazon Prime driver makes a delivery outside an apartment building in Pittsburgh, March 10, 2025.
September 2025

A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime and made it hard to leave

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal trial beginning in Amazon's hometown this week is set to examine whether the online retailing giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime service and made it…
One gang leader, Jimmy Chérizier, best known as Barbecue, vowed to avenge the attacks. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
September 2025

Drone attack in gang-controlled slum in Haiti kills at least 8 children, injures 6 others

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Explosive drones targeting a suspected gang leader killed at least eight children inside a slum in Haiti's capital and seriously wounded six others, relatives and…
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September 2025

Charities cut ties to Sarah Ferguson after reported email describing Jeffrey Epstein as ‘friend’

LONDON (AP): A number of charities on Monday severed ties with Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, after British newspapers published an email that she reportedly wrote to the late convicted…
The UN flag flies on a stormy day at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2022.
September 2025

US bars Iran’s diplomats from shopping at Costco without permission

NEW YORK (AP): The Trump administration has barred Iranian diplomats based in or visiting New York from shopping at wholesale club stores like Costco and purchasing luxury goods in the United States…
A young member of the Afro-Bolivian community dances the ‘saya’, a traditional dance performed with drums and chants, as part of the celebrations to mark the National Day of Afro-Bolivian people, in La Paz.
September 2025

Afro-descendants fight invisibility with dance and memory

YUNGAS (AP): Cielo Torres had always lived in Bolivia. Yet, before moving at age 17 to the remote town of Tocaña – where much of the country’s Afro-descendant community lives – she had rarely…
In this 2021 photo, a gate is seen at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
September 2025

Taliban reject Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base

JALALABAD (AP): The Taliban government on Sunday rejected US President Donald Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left the sprawling…
A costumer walks with her dog as she leaves the Dog Relais, a hotel for dogs at Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport.
September 2025

Rome’s airport opens luxurious dog hotel with pampering services

FIUMICINO (AP): Dog owners often face a dilemma before travelling: leave your beloved pet with a sitter or at a kennel? Both require quite some planning and logistics, which can be stressful and…