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By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say widespread flooding is easing, allowing the capital…
Continue ReadingBy CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say widespread flooding is easing, allowing the capital…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies for more…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister has warned that Myanmar may be excluded from a summit of Southeast Asian leaders this…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 58-year-old Greek man has been arrested after he drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk in front of the the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls are growing for an end to the financial secrecy and shell companies…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Newly leaked documents showing that Jordan’s King Abdullah II quietly amassed luxury real…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Authorities on the Spanish island of La Palma say they are tightening their surveillance of an erupting volcano after part of the…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has threatened to trigger a contentious break clause in the…
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — A United Nations tally obtained by the Associated Press on Monday shows that the number of…
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities have suspended internet services and barred political leaders from…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KEYTON and MARIA CHENG Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries into…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans lining up recently to make complaints at a Taliban-run police station found…
Continue ReadingADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has begun a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly…
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WERLTE, Germany (AP) — German officials have unveiled what they say is the world’s first…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Owen Power passed on a chance to make millions this season with the Buffalo…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares have fallen in Asia after a broad slide on Wall Street led by technology companies. Tokyo’s…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai has gambled billions to make the gleaming, built-from-scratch Expo…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers are questioning the very legitimacy of the Vatican tribunal where 10 people…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders are making a joint appeal to governments to…
Continue ReadingBy JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The popular mayor of the Philippine capital has registered his…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a nurse shot and killed a co-worker at a Philadelphia hospital before fleeing and being shot himself in a later…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has acknowledged what most other countries did long ago:…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Shaheen has risen to 13. Authorities in Oman said…
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A COVID-19 vaccine requirement for teachers and other staff members has taken effect in New York…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials investigating one of California’s largest oil…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban forces have raided an Islamic State affiliate’s hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents,…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likes to say the Democrats’ diversity is its…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Abortion, guns and religion top the Supreme Court’s new term. A case from Mississippi presents a direct challenge to…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets are mixed, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has returned to the courtroom for the start of a momentous…
Continue ReadingBy KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady rallied the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-17 victory over the Patriots on a…
Continue ReadingBy ALICE FUNG and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Shares in troubled real estate developer China Evergrande Group and its property…
Continue ReadingHAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government has confirmed that nine of the 24 players on its national team at baseball’s U-23 World Cup defected during…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will dissolve the lower house next week…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation…
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — An offshore oil spill in Southern California threatens marine life and scenic beaches…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says the two Koreas have restored a stalled communication channel after a…
Continue ReadingHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Crews have deployed skimmers and floating barriers known as booms as they try stop oil from a massive spill in…
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say a small plane crashed on an island near Old Montreal while towing a marriage proposal banner, killing a…
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer FIFA says “we encourage COVID-19 vaccinations” in a first direct plea for players to get jabbed. It came as…
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish news media are reporting that the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch…
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president has hosted two Israeli Cabinet ministers for a late-night meeting, in a new sign of slowly…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s four biggest parties have held a series of bilateral meetings to further sound out each others’ positions before…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pandemic moviegoing is finally starting to look like pre-pandemic moviegoing. Sony Pictures’ Marvel…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A statue memorializing George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square Park has been vandalized. Police say video shows an…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thousands of Tunisians protested in Tunis and other cities this weekend in a show of…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Investigators say a former driver in NASCAR’s lower divisions has been killed in a shooting in Georgia that also wounded a…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government says it will introduce a new carbon tax from July 1, 2022, and will return that money to residents in the…
Continue ReadingBy MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A blaze that ripped through a small, densely populated cay along a Honduran…
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Three Vatican Swiss Guards who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 upon Holy See orders have left the storied corps to…
Continue ReadingBY THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Yet again, Naomi Campbell stole the show at Paris Fashion Week. The veteran trod the runway of…
Continue ReadingBISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff says one man has been killed in a shooting in the parking lot of a Waffle House near a South Carolina…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a former student at a Houston public charter school has been charged after confessing to shooting and wounding the…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister has vowed to rebuild the island of La Palma, where a volcano eruption has spewed molten lava and a thick…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police arrested a man early Sunday in connection with the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe. Homicide…
Continue ReadingBY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say Houthi rebels have fired three ballistic missiles at a government-held…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes that 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds…
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball…
Continue ReadingSELMA, Ala. (AP) — The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked across Selma’s Edmund…
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball…
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly to limit…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia has reported a record daily death toll from COVID-19, the fifth time in a week that deaths have hit a new high. The national…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it is enlisting the military and the Shin Bet internal security agency as it tries to rein in a wave…
Continue ReadingLAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — Survivors of a 2013 capsizing have joined residents of a tiny Italian isle to honor 368 migrants who perished on the…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — Bernard Tapie, the charismatic president of French soccer club Marseille…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s…
Continue ReadingAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has received a call from Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sunday’s call is the first between…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal on the Minneapolis ballot about the future of policing in the city where George…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Poland have confiscated the computer equipment of a journalist working for a…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese military flew 16 warplanes over waters south of Taiwan on Sunday as the United States expressed concern about…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germans must keep working for democracy, as the country celebrated the 31st anniversary of the…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — A small private plane has crashed into a vacant office building in a Milan suburb. A prosecutor said all eight people aboard were…
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has called for “more humane” prison life in the wake of bloodshed in a prison in Ecuador in which 118 people…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he’s ready to take “bold decisions” to rebuild the…
Continue ReadingBy WILSON RING Associated Press Despite having some of the highest vaccination rates in the country, the six New England states are still grappling…
Continue ReadingSAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast outside a Kabul mosque Sunday, a…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The suspect in the 2018 killing of 17 people at a Florida high school goes on trial…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Congressional Democrats are going bigger than ever on the environment, with a spending…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — An EgyptAir jet has landed in Tel Aviv, making the first official direct flight by the Egyptian national carrier since the two…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says Libya’s coast guard has intercepted a wooden boat carrying…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — A blaze that possibly was sparked by a gas canister explosion has destroyed part of an historic bridge spanning the Tiber River in…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — After flourishing for two decades with little regulation, China’s internet…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cyclone battering Oman has killed three people, including a child. Cyclone Shaheen made landfall Sunday night…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has warned the United Nation’s top body against making any statements…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has restricted its COVID Green Pass to allow only those who have received a vaccine booster dose or recently recuperated…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Millions of people are voting in Italy for new mayors including in the nation’s main…
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has refused permission for France to fly military planes in its airspace and announced the recall of its ambassador…
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Near-final results from nationwide municipal elections in Georgia show the ruling party well ahead of challengers, but the…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s Expo 2020 has acknowledged for the first time that three workers died…
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press GULU, Uganda (AP) — The remote Ugandan district of Gulu is currently a COVID-19 hot spot in the East African…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says a U.N. convoy in Mali’s northern Kidal region was attacked by improvised explosive devices which…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has flown more than 30 military planes toward Taiwan in its second large display of force in as many days. Taiwan’s…
Continue ReadingABOARD THE SEABIRD (AP) — An Italian offshore supply vessel has rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have suspended nine firefighters without pay in connection with a string of racist messages and memes they…
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil’s presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in Rio de Janeiro, Sao…
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