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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on Brazil’s political crisis and President Michel Temer (all times local): 8:29 p.m. Brazil’s attorney general has formally accused President Michel Temer with corruption, the first time a sitting president in Latin America’s largest nation has faced criminal charges. Attorney General Rodrigo Janot’s formal accusation Monday is the […]

MESETAS, Colombia (AP) — Leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year to end a half century of conflict, the United Nations said Monday. A U.N. statement said it had received 7,132 weapons belonging to Revolutionary […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two more Alaskans were mauled by bears over the weekend, bringing the number of bear attacks in the state to four in less than a week, including two fatalities. Alaska wildlife officials say they don’t know why there have been so many attacks in such a short time. But one official […]

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Flint, Michigan, airport officer stabbed in the neck during what authorities are investigating as a terrorist act has been discharged from a hospital. A spokeswoman for Hurley Medical Center says Lt. Jeff Neville was released Monday. Neville was stabbed Wednesday at Bishop International Airport in Flint, about 50 miles (80 […]

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time seems to have softened her previous opposition toward legalizing same-sex marriages. Merkel said Monday that German lawmakers could possibly take up the issue in the future as a “question of conscience,” meaning parliamentarians could vote based on their individual beliefs and regardless of what […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The top diplomats of Russia and the United States have focused on the Syrian crisis in a phone call. The Russian Foreign Ministry says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talked Monday about the need to secure a cease-fire in Syria, fight extremist groups and to prevent […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A charred body found in western Mexico has been identified as the owner and director of a local television station abducted in May, the seventh journalist killed so far this year in the country. Salvador Adame was director of local channel 6TV. Armed men grabbed Adame on May 18 and forced […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the New York criminal trial of a Chinese billionaire charged with trying to bribe United Nations diplomats to ease approval of a U.N. conference center. Ng Lap Seng, 69, has pleaded not guilty to six charges, including conspiracy, since his arrest in September 2015 during a […]

WOODSTOCK, Ontario (AP) — A former nurse convicted of killing eight elderly people in her care was sentenced Monday to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years. Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleaded guilty last month to eight counts of first-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault in the notorious […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military says it has successfully test-fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile. The Defense Ministry said the Yuri Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine launched the Bulava missile Monday from a submerged position in the Barents Sea. The ministry said the missile’s mock warheads reached their designated targets on the opposite side of Russia […]