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ROME — Rescue crews in an Italian Alpine city were searching Monday for any possible missing people and clearing mud-caked roads after a mountain mudslide sent water and debris pouring into town, bursting riverbanks. Authorities said all residents were accounted…

NEW DELHI — Heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in India's Himalayan region, leaving at least 22 people dead and many others trapped, officials said Monday. A cloudburst in mountainous Himachal Pradesh state's Solan district on Sunday night killed…

ISLAMABAD — Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar is to be sworn in Monday as Pakistan’s prime minister to head a caretaker national government that will oversee parliamentary elections. Kakar, who is comparatively new to politics, has been representing his Baluchistan province in the…

BEIJING — Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support for those nations which the West has sought to isolate over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Li departed Monday on the six-day trip, during…

JOHANNESBURG — As Lebohang Mphuthi works amid the chaos of boisterous children during a lunch break at the Omar H.S. Ebrahim elementary school in South Africa — the kids are pushing, shoving and spilling food everywhere — she can't help…

TEHRAN, Iran — A record number of people registered to become candidates in Iran's parliamentary elections scheduled for March, the Interior Ministry said Monday. The elections will be the first since nationwide protests rocked the country last year. Nearly 49,000…