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France gripped by spreading student protests as PM calls crisis meeting

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister convened a crisis meeting Thursday and canceled ministers' trips to focus on the nationwide spread of protests, some violent, by high school students venting about under-resourced schools, long ...

Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan kill 10 civilians, Kabul and UN say

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistani airstrikes on two Afghan provinces overnight killed at least 10 civilians, Afghanistan and the United Nations said Thursday, with the cross-border conflict between the two countries showing no ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has awarded legal protection to the human voice in a landmark case in which a popular Japanese anime voice actor demanded that TikTok close an account over its unauthorized use of an artificial intelligence clone of his ...

Trump hails the US military's exit from Iraq after its 12-year mission

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight the Islamic State group and prompting President Donald Trump to hail the ...