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NATO to hold nuclear exercise despite warnings from Russia

By Lorne Cook, Associated Press

NATO's chief said Tuesday that it's important to do this despite rising tensions over the war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin's insistence that he is not bluffing about using all available means to defend Russian territory.

Majority in U.S. see relations with foreign adversaries grow more hostile, poll finds

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Nuha Dolby, Associated Press

A majority of U.S. adults expect America's relations with foreign adversaries like Russia and North Korea to grow more hostile, according to a new poll. That's a major shift in public opinion from four years ago under Trump.

Committee head says Portugal church sex abuse was 'widespread'

By Barry Hatton, Associated Press

The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says the problem in the past had been "widespread" and on some occasions reached "truly endemic" proportions.

Tourists travel to Japan after COVID-19 restrictions lifted, expected to provide major economic boost

By Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press

Eager to admire colorful foliage, eat sushi and go shopping, droves of tourists from abroad began arriving in Japan on Tuesday, with the end of pandemic-fighting border restrictions that had been in place for more than two years.

UK cyber-intelligence chief says China's growing power is a top security issue

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, said that despite war raging in Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Beijing’s growing power is the "national security issue that will define our future.”…

Russian officials, commentators call for more missile strikes on Ukraine

By Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press

Russian nationalist commentators and state media war correspondents lauded Monday's attack as an appropriate, and long-awaited, response to a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Hundreds gather to mourn as Thai massacre victims are cremated

By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Associated Press

Families bid their final goodbyes at a Buddhist temple a short distance from the Young Children’s Development Center in the town of Uthai Sawan.

Iran intensifies violent crackdown on protestors in Kurdish areas

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

Riot police fired into at least one neighborhood in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province.

Israel and Lebanon reach agreement over gas reserves in the Mediterranean

By Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press

The agreement would mark a major breakthrough in relations between the two countries, which formally have been at war since Israel's establishment in 1948.