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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s government is bringing forward a meeting to decide on tighter measures to control the spread of COVID-19 amid a rapid…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Police in Italy are conducting searches against 17 anti-vaccine activists who were purportedly…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria is canceling a trip to the Netherlands because of the three-week partial lockdown…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has filed his candidacy for a Senate seat in next…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of a “blizzard” of new coronavirus infections…

By GRANT PECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster is on his way home from military-ruled Myanmar.…

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has exploded on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounding…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has increased the terror level to severe, meaning an attack is…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin have talked on the phone about…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A groom at his wedding, a construction worker and father of four, an ambulance driver: All…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airbus has clinched a major deal valued into the billions of dollars to sell…

By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in the…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular…

By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in…

By EDNA TARIGAN and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers living in Indonesia…

BEIJING (AP) — China has confined nearly 1,500 university students to their dormitories and hotels following an outbreak of COVID-19 in the…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to launch talks aimed at settling a dispute over American…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers two weeks earlier…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher as President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping hold a summit…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are agreeing they need to…

By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press A new survey finds that international students are returning to U.S. colleges in stronger…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised advocates, and even many of her Democratic…

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors say Kyle Rittenhouse provoked bloodshed on the…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The trial has begun for a man who is charged with killing 18 older women in Dallas and its suburbs…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is taking the state’s case against the nation’s three…

HOUSTON (AP) — A 9-year-old Dallas has become the youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A stock exchange set up in the Chinese capital to serve entrepreneurs has opened trading with 81…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press At only 7 years old, Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the “Sesame Street” canon.…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The National Weather Service says at least three tornadoes hit Rhode Island and southeast Connecticut. The twisters…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy shrank at a 3% annual rate in the July-September quarter, as private consumption…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The books editor for National Public Radio has died at 46. Colleagues remember Petra Mayer for her reporting at Comic-Con and…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The 2021 MTV European Music Awards show has been held in Hungary’s capital of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in north-central Mexico say gunmen assaulted a house and killed five family members, including a 14-year-old boy,…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s premier film festival took an unexpected turn when anti-vaxxers showed up outside the theater in…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The French movie “Petite Nature” (Softie) has won the top Golden Alexander prize at the 62nd Thessaloniki…

Wilbur Smith, a bestselling author who wrote dozens of adventure novels, has died at age 88. His office says in an online obituary that Smith died…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a woman has been arrested after punching a Southwest Airlines employee in the head during boarding for a flight out…

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In a story published Nov. 14, 2021, about the global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, The Associated Press…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s security minister says an attack by jihadis on a gendarme…

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Chinese businesswoman has been deported back to China more than two years after being sentenced to eight months in prison…

By ALLEN PANCHANA and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — The signs that an attack was imminent inside the largest prison in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved giving the COVID-19 vaccine to children between the ages of 5 and 11. Sunday’s Ministry decision follows…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser is expressing confidence the White House’s $1.85…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow as a “game-changing agreement” that sounded…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver and founder of a high-performance driving school that taught many…

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — The victims of a deadly plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island include a real estate agent and a couple who were…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s national research body says it will start clinical trials for a domestically made coronavirus vaccine. The country’s…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas TV station reports that troopers investigating a crash that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say an off-duty Baltimore police officer who was getting a haircut shot and killed a man who burst into a barber shop and…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A 65-year-old man has died after he set himself on fire in central province of Markazi when a court issued a verdict against…

HOUSTON (AP) — Brianna Rodriguez, who was killed as the crowd pushed toward the stage at Astroworld in Houston, was remembered by friends and…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Harris W. Fawell, a seven-term Illinois congressman and state senator, has died at age 92. His…

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Federal marshals in Ohio say a 1969 bank robbery has been closed following the death earlier this year of the man they say…

LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested three men under terrorism laws after a car exploded outside a hospital in Liverpool, killing one man and…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Justice Ministry says guards have thwarted an escape attempt from the Paris region’s second-largest prison. French…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Disney and Marvel’s “Eternals” fell 61% in its second weekend in theaters, but it’s still hanging on to first…

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Alberto Fernández has suffered a severe…

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis activists are collecting accounts of police misconduct from…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa was not happy with a last-minute fight over coal…

RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) — A former captive during the Iranian hostage crisis has been laid to rest along with his wife in a veterans’ cemetery in…

BANGKOK (AP) — Three pro-democracy activists have been injured during a rally in Bangkok that criticized a ruling by the country’s Constitutional…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s state-run media reports that heavy rains and flooding in the country’s south have left three people dead and more…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press A jury will soon deliberate whether Kyle Rittenhouse is guilty of charges, including murder, for shooting three…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is marking the 61st anniversary of the integration of its public schools by four…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Some Catholic bishops in the United States are persisting with criticism of President Joe Biden for his support of…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say two people were killed and 19 injured when a van packed with migrants overturned in eastern Serbia. Police said…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are set to host the first tribal nations…

By TRISHA THOMAS and FRANCES D’EMILIO ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister has summoned Cuba’s top diplomat in Madrid to explain why…

BERLIN (AP) — A young man has been severely injured when he fell off a slab that’s part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media says two strong earthquakes have struck the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, leaving one person dead.…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s citizen’s arrest and self-defense laws are key to the defense strategy in…

GENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school…

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to combat…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says Israel has been using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s election agency says the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is decrying society which “hurries past” the poor, judges them and…

By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Officials say a fire broke out on a ward for COVID-19 patients in Bulgaria, killing three people. The fire in the southern…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has missed out on the Remembrance Sunday service in London to pay tribute to…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels again this winter, as thick, gray…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering asking NATO…

By ADAM PEMBLE and MATTHIAS SCHRADER BOHONIKI, Poland (AP) — Maciej Szczęsnowicz cried when he saw migrants at the border for the first time,…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Preliminary results in Kosovo’s runoff municipal elections Sunday show the governing party suffered a heavy blow in…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — For most of his 27 years as the authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has disdained…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination…