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People queue up to buy Apple Daily at a downtown street in Hong Kong Friday, June 18, 2021. The pro-democracy paper increased its print run to 500,000 copies on Friday, a day after police arrested five top editors and executives and froze $2.3 million in assets linked to the media company. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong newspaper increases print fivefold after arrests

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has increased its print run more than fivefold to 500,000 copies as residents lined up to buy the paper in a show of support for beleaguered press freedoms, a day after police arrested five top editors and executives
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2017, file photo, Mark Lowcock, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, addresses his statement, during the Pledging Conference for the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Lowcock, who steps down Friday, June 18, 2021 after four years, said in an interview with The Associated Press that unfortunately the world has been dealing with symptoms, including people displaced by fighting and natural disasters or at risk of famine, which is now stalking Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region and Yemen. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

AP Interview: UN aid chief says we must tackle crises causes

The outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the explosion in people needing humanitarian assistance in recent years will keep getting worse until major powers tackle the root causes of hunger and desperation -- conflicts, extremism, climate change, poor governance, corruption and violence, to name a few
FILE - In this March 14, 2021, file photo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in New York. Gillibrand is on the brink of success in her years-long campaign to get sexual assault cases removed from the military chain of command. But getting over the finish line may depend on whether she can overcome wariness about broader changes she's seeking to the military justice system. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Senator: Military justice changes must go beyond sex cases

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on the brink of success in her yearslong campaign to get sexual assault cases removed from the military chain of command
National Hurricane Center director Ken Graham, left, speaks during a news conference along with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.,Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the center in Miami. Tuesday marks the start of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season which runs to Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tropical system to bring heavy rain, flooding to Gulf Coast

Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast as early as Friday and throughout the weekend
An internally displaced woman sits inside her makeshift tent at Pu Phar Village, Demawso Township, Kayah State on Thursday June 17, 2021. A report on the situation in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar issued this week by the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says around 108,800 people from Kayah State were internally displaced following an escalation of hostilities between the government military and the local Karenni People's Defense Force militia since the coup Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo)
UN proposal seeks arms embargo and democracy in Myanmar
Diplomats say the U_N_ General Assembly is expected to approve a resolution calling on Myanmar's military junta to restore the country's democratic transition and calling on all countries 'to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar.'
The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans.
Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Obama health law
The Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to the Obama era health care law on Thursday, turning aside an effort by Republican-led states to throw out the law that provides insurance coverage for millions of Americans.
Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, listens Tuesday as state Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, delivers his remarks on Gov. JB Pritzker’s amendatory veto of the budget legislation on the floor of the Illinois Senate at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.
Two-day session in Springfield ends with no energy bill
Illinois lawmakers finished a two-day special session Thursday by passing some important legislation but without reaching agreement on the one issue they had hoped to resolve -- an energy bill that would phase out all carbon emissions from power plants over the next 30 years.
People walk in Piccadilly Circus, in London, Monday, June 14, 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
UK records over 10,000 virus cases for first time since Feb
The U.K.'s latest surge in coronavirus infections is gathering pace
FILE - In this April 10, 2021 file photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, second right, listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran. As Iran prepares to vote Friday, June 18, 2021 for a new president, its tattered nuclear deal for world powers hangs in the balance as diplomats try to find a way to get both the U.S. and Tehran to reenter the accord. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)
Iran nuclear deal hangs in balance as Islamic Republic votes
Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers hangs in the balance as the country prepares to vote on Friday for a new president
A woman receives a coronavirus vaccination at the Kololo airstrip in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, May 31, 2021. Africa is especially vulnerable. As virus cases surge in the world's poorest countries, a sense of dread is growing among millions of the unvaccinated, especially those who toil in the informal, off-the-books economy, live hand-to-mouth and pay cash in health emergencies. (AP Photo/Nicholas Bamulanzeki)
In poorest countries, surges worsen shortages of vaccines
Some of the most desperately poor countries in the world are seeing a two-headed crisis: a surge in COVID-19 cases and a critical shortage of vaccine
Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections, casts his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran Friday, June 18, 2021. Iran began voting Friday in a presidential election tipped in the favor of a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fueling public apathy and sparking calls for a boycott in the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Iran votes in presidential poll tipped in hard-liner's favor
Iran has begun voting in a presidential election tipped in the favor of a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
3 dead, 2 missing after tubers go over North Carolina dam
Authorities say three people are dead and two remain missing after a group floating a North Carolina river on inflatable tubes went over a dam
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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