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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide who climbed the world’s 14 tallest mountains in record time is…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has slammed Turkey and blamed Ankara for the…

By MICKENSON DUVERGÉ and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An aid organization in Haiti says kidnappers have freed a U.S.…

BEIRUT (AP) — A roadside bombing in southern Syria has killed a Syrian journalist and three soldiers. The state news agency SANA said the bomb…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and FREIDA FRISARO TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday suspended the top prosecutor in Orlando,…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Add Angelina Jolie to the growing list of celebrities dipping their toes into producing on…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The owner of a Greek oil tanker that discharged nearly 10,000 gallons of oily bilge water into the ocean has been ordered…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and his legal team face long odds in their bid to…

By AUDREY MCAVOY, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire tore through the heart of the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior lawmakers from the United States and Europe are calling for a change in the Western…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song’s vocals…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, RENATA BRITO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda says its April-June profit more than doubled on healthy sales of its motorcycles and cars,…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has strongly condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly 100 Croatian soccer fans have appeared in an Athens court…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says he will strengthen provincial governments to meet…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A dam in southern Norway partially burst after days of heavy rain that triggered…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian rocket attack on Wednesday killed three people and wounded…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Eleven people have died after a fire ripped through a vacation home for adults with disabilities in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Inmates at a Bahrain prison are on a hunger strike over conditions there.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s profits between April and June slipped 17%, as worries grew about revenue damage from a…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s deposed president is running out of food and under increasingly dire conditions…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank says it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A string of disturbing revelations of “inhumane and degrading”…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks mostly fell Thursday after shares declined on Wall Street and investors braced…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Over the objections of wild horse advocates, a judge cleared the way Wednesday night for the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eritrea, one of the world’s most repressive countries, is marking 30 years of independence as…