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HONG KONG (AP) — The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades is piling pressure on Beijing’s “patriots-only” governance system, casting a shadow on elections widely seen as a further step to tighten control over the city’s legislature.Sunday’s vote to elect new lawmakers to Hong Kong’s 90-member Legislative Council comes just 11 days after a massive fire engulfed seven towers in a high-rise apartment complex, killing at least 159 people in the financial hub’s worst blaze since 1948. With many voters in the city grown politically apathetic since China’s crackdown shut out the pro-democracy camp in recent years, Sunday’s turnout…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano insists the club has evolved since losing to the Vancouver Whitecaps in April’s Concacaf Champions Cup semifinals, entering Saturday’s MLS Cup with a newfound confidence and improved roster.The Whitecaps first beat Inter Miami 2-0 at BC Place before triumphing 3-1 in the second leg of the semifinal series at Chase Stadium to eliminate Mascherano’s team from the international competition.- MLS Cup preview: Miami has too much momentum to stop- Vancouver isn’t built around Müller. The Caps are better for it- Müller ready for ‘perfect final’ with Miami, Messi”Obviously, they were…

Manchester United slipped up at home again as Soungoutou Magassa’s late goal earned West Ham a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.The three points that would have lifted Ruben Amorim’s side up to fifth in the table looked to be theirs when Diogo Dalot finished smartly just before the hour but United failed to see it through with Magassa’s neat finish allowing West Ham to claim a point. United, who lost at home to 10-man Everton in their previous home fixture, do move above Liverpool into eighth but this was a missed opportunity. Nuno Espirito Santo will take the point, his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Southern Command announced that it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks.It is the 22nd strike the U.S. military has carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs. There were four casualties in Thursday’s strike, according to the social media post, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people.In a video that accompanied the announcement, a small boat can be seen moving across the water…

After US President Donald Trump called Somali Americans “garbage” and told them to “go back”, they flipped the script online by turning his rant into a viral joke about Minnesota being their true homeland. Earlier this week, Trump launched into a harsh tirade against Somali immigrants in Minnesota. He called them – and specifically congressional representative Ilhan Omar – “garbage”, declared that he didn’t want them in the country, and insisted that Somali immigrants “contribute nothing”, their homeland “stinks”, and urged them to return to where they came from.  “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll…

Two New York City police officers won’t be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James’ office said Thursday.Win Rozario was shot five times by the officers at his family’s home in Queens on March 27, 2024, as he came at them while holding scissors in his hand, police body camera video showed. A person in the home had called 911 and told a dispatcher “I think my son is on drugs and is acting…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing the jewelry in an Auckland store. They said the pendant was recovered Thursday night after it exited the suspect’s gastrointestinal tract naturally without medical intervention. The limited-edition, Fabergé egg pendant was inspired by the 1983 James Bond film “Octopussy,” in which a jewel-smuggling operation involves a fake Fabergé egg. A less glamorous photo supplied by New Zealand’s police Friday showed a gloved hand holding the recovered pendant and its long, gold…

ST. PAUL, Minn, (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota’s Somali community “garbage” and dismissing the state as a “hellhole.”Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the state’s Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — were “unprecedented for a United States president. We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage.”Republican legislative leaders stopped short of accepting the governor’s invitation to join him in condemnation, and countered that the dispute wouldn’t have erupted if Walz had acted more effectively…

KUWAIT: The interior ministry affirmed on Thursday its continued commitment to developing its security system, enhancing the efficiency of its personnel and modernizing its technological infrastructure to better protect lives and property, strengthen public safety and support the country’s development trajectory in line with the New Kuwait 2035 vision.Director of the Traffic Awareness Department at the Ministry’s Traffic and Operations Sector Col Fahad Al-Essa told KUNA that the ministry continues to implement comprehensive strategic plans aimed at reinforcing security and stability across Kuwait in accordance with Vision 2035. This includes upgrading security sectors, improving personnel capabilities and adopting a proactive,…

A plaque at the entrance to Robben Island highlights a quote from its most famous inmate, prisoner 46664. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” Nelson Mandela’s words ring like a death knell over the state of Israel today. The bodies of 345 Palestinians who “disappeared” when Israel invaded Gaza two years ago have now been returned to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. They are so disfigured that only 99 of them have…