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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Union of Journalists is urging journalists not to travel to Qatar to cover next year’s World Cup, saying…

By DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say 52 miners and rescuers have died after a…

By MASHA MACPHERSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is launching a new process for women to formally report abuse,…

By OLEG CETINIC and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — France’s president is urging European neighbors to do more to stop…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Interpol has elected a contentious official from the United Arab Emirates as its…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will launch a task force to consider outlawing dog meat consumption…

By DAVID McHUGH, EMILY SCHULTHEIS and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Some of Europe’s Christmas markets are warily…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — In the West African country of Burkina Faso, many feel the government has let them down…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia says it is sending police, troops and diplomats to the Solomon Islands to help after anti-government…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — In the West African country of Burkina Faso, many feel the government has let them down…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — The first rainstorm of winter has sent water pouring into homes across the Gaza…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has become the latest country to record 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. It confirmed its first case on Jan. 27, 2020, rising to…

By DAVID RISING and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Solomon Islands prime minister has blamed foreign interference for…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A year after suffering a huge election loss, New Zealand’s conservative opposition…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of “a very sad day” as her country became the latest to…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press Members of Native American tribes from around New England are gathering in the seaside town where the Pilgrims…

By HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Witnesses say a large explosion has occurred outside a school in a busy part of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have declined as traders weigh the impact of a surge in coronavirus cases in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A doctor’s report says the polyp removed from President Joe Biden’s colon last week was a benign, slow-growing but…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police have released video of officers shooting a knife-wielding man who charged at them in a residential hotel.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are hunting for thieves who rushed into a Southern California Nordstrom store Wednesday night and ran off…

By ROGER SCHNEIDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The FBI’s confirmation last week that it was looking at a spot next to a New Jersey landfill…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Environmental groups are calling on President Joe Biden and military leaders to shut down tanks…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Association of Salvadoran Journalists says some news outlets have reported receiving alerts from Apple Inc.…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin is announcing groups that include lawmakers,…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been shot and killed just steps away from a memorial to the 14-year-old son who was fatally shot over the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say they have found 14 clandestine graves in the northern border state of Sonora. State prosecutors say the…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Prime Minister Ariel Henry has sworn in his new Cabinet more than four months after he…

By NOREEN NASIR, SUDHIN THANAWALA and ADAM GELLER Associated Press The murder trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and three men accused of killing Ahmaud…

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A hiker found the remains of the fourth and final person who died during flooding and mudslides in an area of northern…

By TAMMY WEBBER, TODD RICHMOND and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press The man accused of plowing his SUV into a parade of Christmas marchers could have…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has nominated the first woman to serve as governor of the country’s central bank, saying that…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials in discussions earlier this month said the central bank…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Edge is using his charity to help New Orleans musicians get back on their feet from the…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the father of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Black man fatally shot after he was pursued by three white men in…

By DENISE LAVOIE and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over…

NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) — A former Army officer and Detroit native who reported in 2005 that military prisoners in the Middle East were being beaten…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A university professor in Virginia has announced they’ll resign in the wake of threats…

By RAMI MUSA Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s top electoral body has disqualified the son and onetime heir apparent of the late…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With a nearly 8-hour documentary series, filmmaker Peter Jackson reexamines the…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is directing U.S. attorneys across the nation to swiftly…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There may be a plethora of adjectives to describe music superstar T-Pain, but boring is…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say the death of a 3-year-old boy who died after plunging from the 17th floor window of a Chicago apartment building is…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An Oregon-born gray wolf that thrilled biologists as it journeyed far south into California was found dead after…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Many Brazilians felt bearish about the new Wall Street-inspired bull sculpture outside the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and HOPE YEN Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says conditions in Alabama prisons have not improved since…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are denying most permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking,…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — More than 2,000 people have rallied in Belgrade against Serbian government policies that they say favor investors over the…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press After three men were convicted in the murder of her son, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother said she never thought she’d…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three women who volunteered to investigate a 2011 massacre of 193 people later found out that they themselves had been…

By ASHRAF IDRIS Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese government official says he was kept in isolation for nearly a month after being…

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The suburban Chicago families of two college students who were among those killed this month at the Astroworld concert in…

By MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — When he was acquitted of murder for shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Kyle…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Officials say a Palestinian man was critically wounded after Israeli settlers pelted his car with stones as he drove…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The killing got captured on video and shared around the world. It showed Ahmaud Arbery running…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will pay $790 million to settle a lawsuit filed by St. Louis…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s appropriate that at the center of a film called “The Humans” is Richard Jenkins, a…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Pres TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s deputy foreign minister has canceled meetings with Belgian officials after a…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz is set to become post-World War II Germany’s ninth chancellor, crowning a career that…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Regulators have given approval to a plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to bury toxin-laden coal ash in southeast Memphis.…

DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has ordered two lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is moving ahead with plans to build a massive Jewish settlement on the site of a…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The Biden administration approved an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and New York as part of…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish riot police have dispersed a protest in Istanbul by demonstrators denouncing the government’s economic policies and the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 1,000 anti-vaccine demonstrators have rallied in the Ukrainian capital to…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s government has approved the purchase of 12 used Rafale fighter jets from France worth about 1 billion euros to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say they will allow 500 members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Christian community to enter Israel and the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is already a veteran at…

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Damages from flooding last week in northwest Washington’s Whatcom County could reach as high as $50 million, officials…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is reporting its highest number of new daily COVID-19 infections since July amid a surge in cases across Europe.…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Ahmaud Arbery was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer When Paul Thomas Anderson first mentioned to Alana Haim that he wanted to put her in a movie, she assumed it would be…

ATLANTA (AP) — State environmental regulators are proposing a $3 million fine for the Hyundai Glovis Co. logistics and shipping firm after a cargo…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Russian gas giant Gazprom says it has has granted Moldova a two-day extension to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Interpol says its member countries have adopted a resolution calling on nations to urge local online end-to-end encryption…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge says no phones, laptops or recording devices will be allowed at next week’s child pornography trial of…

By MICHEL SPINGLER and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in Chicago, Broadway star Brittney Mack faithfully watched the Macy’s…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that nullified a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian and Western officials are worried about a Russian military buildup near Ukraine,…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. mortgage rates were mixed this week. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed rate home loan…

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Subway sandwich chain co-founder Peter Buck has died. He was 90. Subway says Buck died on Nov. 18 at a hospital in Danbury,…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prosecutors have brought terror charges against a local man who had allegedly joined the Islamic State group in…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s energy regulator is looking to appoint an administrator to oversee the latest business…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Palestinian man who was seeking an…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Union body says it has finally appointed two prosecutors from Slovenia. That has ended a…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government has lifted a ban on imports of agrochemicals that it said…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the massive spike in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks is threatening the…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Authorities in Cyprus say they will deny access to indoor areas such as shopping malls, restaurants and supermarkets to…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. sales of new homes edged up 0.4% last month, coming in below expectations as housing…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Milton Andrew Munson’s obituary recalled his life as an Air Force veteran, a pharmacist, husband and father, and as a…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are doing the main thing that drives the U.S. economy — spending — but…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This Met Opera season alone has been an impressive run of roles for Ryan Speedo Green, whose…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its upcoming Summit for Democracy, prompting…

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s government says Ethiopia has ordered four of six Irish diplomats working in Addis Ababa to leave the country because of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and Vietnam have expressed serious concern about any unilateral actions aimed…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for millions of federal workers…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Pharmacies have lost in a groundbreaking trial in Ohio over the toll of…