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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Latest on Poland’s move to give politicians influence over Supreme Court (all times local): 2:05 a.m. Poland’s Senate has approved a contentious law that gives politicians substantial influence over the Supreme Court, in defiance of European Union criticism. The bill proposed by the populist ruling party only needs the signature […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A timeline of the July 15 fatal shooting of Justine Damond, an unarmed Australian woman, by a Minneapolis police officer compiled from police incident reports, 911 transcripts and reports from state investigators: 11:27 p.m. — Justine Damond calls 911 to report hearing sounds of distress from a girl or woman behind her […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. official for Haiti is urging the Caribbean country’s new government to keep its promises to fight corruption, improve justice, and combat poverty especially in rural areas, saying peacekeepers have accomplished their mission of stabilizing the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation. Sandra Honore said Haiti today “is far different” than […]

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) — An appeals court in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao has upheld the sentence of a former prime minister found guilty of corruption. Gerrit Schotte faces three years in prison and is barred from running for office for five years. His attorney appealed Friday’s sentencing to a higher court in the […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An al-Qaida suspect linked to a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist has been brought to Philadelphia from Spain to face terrorism charges in federal court, despite President Donald Trump’s promises to send terror suspects to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Ali Charaf Damache, 52, of Algeria, appeared in court Friday […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on drug cartel-fueled violence in Mexico (all times local): 5:25 p.m. The top prosecutor in the western Mexican state of Jalisco says authorities have discovered two drug cartel training camps where they believe about 40 people had been trapped and trained after being tricked by online job advertisements. Jalisco […]

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military says the air force mistakenly launched an airstrike on a refugee camp in January because the camp was not appropriately marked as a humanitarian base in the military’s operational maps. Defense forces said Friday in a statement that when it noticed mass movement through aerial satellite observation on Jan. […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Burnt-out vehicles. Road blockades. A raging gun battle between armored marines and gang members that left eight dead. Such scenes have been common in border cities like Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, and figures released Friday show the death toll from Mexico’s drug war has reached new heights this year. But residents […]

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say a former high-ranking member of the Zetas cartel in Mexico must serve 30 years in a U.S. prison and forfeit $10 million for his drug-related crimes. Ivan Velasquez-Caballero of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Laredo, Texas. Officials say the 47-year-old Velasquez-Caballero is expected […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local): 5 p.m. The Mercosur trade bloc is asking Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to suspend his plan to rewrite the troubled nation’s constitution. Leaders of the South American group are meeting Friday in the Argentine city of Mendoza. In a statement, […]