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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — It’s time to raise a glass for sljivovica – Serbia’s traditional plum brandy that authorities said…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google is challenging a record European Union antitrust fine that took aim at the Android operating…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has rescheduled his delayed trip to Congo and South Sudan for Jan. 31-Feb. 5.…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press BRUNOY, France (AP) — The pistol the elderly French woman inherited from her grandfather…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press LODZ, Poland (AP) — Europe’s largest security organization has opened a meeting in Poland strongly denouncing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying the country…

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nationsis asking member states for a record $51.5 billion in aid funding for next year, as disasters and the ongoing war…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava…

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss authorities say they have been notified of 46.1 billion francs ($48.5 billion) in assets held by Russian nationals and entities…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Renewed allegations of racism at Buckingham Palace threatened to overshadow Prince William’s trip…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a major political conference before the…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain detonated a suspicious envelope discovered at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spanish…

Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran’s national soccer team has received a subdued welcome home with a few dozen fans greeting them at the…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police say they have seized around 500 kilograms (1,102 pounds) of narcotics in Stockholm, with a total street value of…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — More Chinese cities eased anti-virus restrictions and police patrolled their streets Thursday as…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a…

BEIJING (AP) — China says leader Xi Jinping has urged negotiations on a political solution to the Ukraine conflict in talks with visiting European…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sleep plunges the soldier back into the horrors of Ukraine’s battlefields. He can hear…

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Award-winning “Squid Game” actor Oh Young-soo will stand trial on charges of indecent…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares retreated in Asia on Friday after a mixed day on Wall Street as optimism over signs…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants during an arrest raid in the occupied West…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Midterm voters in Oregon narrowly passed one of the toughest gun control laws in the…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat on Saturday night. Showing…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Voters in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat are casting ballots in crucial local elections.…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are…

By COLLEEN LONG, SYVLIE CORBET and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged “glitches” in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig has decided to withdraw his agreement to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Voice of America says the Taliban have banned FM radio broadcasts from VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer He grinned, and — just eight years after the crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square — the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India officially takes up its role as chair of the Group of 20 leading economies for the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The trial of a Hong Kong newspaper publisher who was arrested in a crackdown on the city’s…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was a “predator” with unmistakable patterns who used his Hollywood…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Rose Bowl game organizers cleared the way for the College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Thursday’s state dinner for the president of France is meant to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are seeking a search warrant for the Reddit website as they try to identify the person who leaked a racist…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former elections manager who prosecutors say assisted in a security…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Journalists from an investigative news outlet in El Salvador have sued NSO Group in U.S. federal court after the…

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida backup quarterback Jalen Kitna, the son of retired NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, was…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A top European Union official warned Elon Musk on Wednesday that Twitter needs to beef up measures…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some $3.1 billion was donated to charitable causes in the U.S. in the 24 hours that are called…

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — They want money — that’s what they want, that’s what they want. Well, now the Rolling Stones can say…

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Five people have been found dead at a home in suburban Chicago in what police are saying is a likely “domestic-related…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A task force in Houston has unveiled a new agreement its members say will improve communication…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said Wednesday that he did not…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s breach of personal information for hundreds of thousands of gun owners…

By BRIAN MELLEY and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday at the rape trial of “That ’70s…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has received a federal judge’s approval…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Five, four, three, two, one!” and the towering National Christmas Tree blazed with bright color Wednesday evening as…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands announced Wednesday that it reached a settlement of more than…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As hundreds of students mourned together inside the University of Idaho’s stadium…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A preliminary report from federal officials on a deadly midair collision at a…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — An Atlantic hurricane season with 14 named storms has ended, leaving residents in the Florida Keys…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Rest easy, soccer fans. Lionel Messi will grace the World Cup stage at least one more time.…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Wednesday it has complied with a court order to make former…

By SCOTT BAUER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has been interviewed by the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden told a gathering of tribal leaders in Washington on Wednesday that he intends…

By JOHN SEEWER and KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press Jurors have convicted a man in the killings of eight people from another Ohio family after…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists say the federal government isn’t doing enough to ensure the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Thanksgiving weekend wasn’t just big for turkey, family visits and the Macy’s…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The spokesman for the Islamic State group says its leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a new TV drama on the way about the exploits of a stylish, privileged and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A district attorney says a grand jury has declined to indict police officers after an…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on Wednesday with Rep.…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a man who has been accused of illegally having a gun at the time that rapper…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Retired NFL star Terrell Owens said a fight caught on camera in which he punched a man in a CVS parking lot was the result…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s the middle of the afternoon and Jada Williams begins a live stream on Instagram. In a…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it was not aggressive actions by officials that caused a boat of migrants and the Cuban…

SANDSTONE, Minn. (AP) — Four lion cubs that were orphaned during the war in Ukraine have arrived safely at a Minnesota animal sanctuary that has…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath…

PARIS (AP) — French financial prosecutors say a Paris court has approved an agreement with Airbus that will see the planemaker pay a 15.8-…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Maria Kolesnikova, a prominent member of the Belarusian opposition serving an 11-year…

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked…

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Tempe City Council has unanimously approved a proposal for a new Arizona Coyotes arena and entertainment district, clearing…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer can’t share lawyers with 10…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former University of Connecticut women’s soccer…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has temporarily removed a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers out of the occupied West Bank following the…

By CALEB JONES, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The world’s largest volcano is oozing…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal investigation of U.S. Rep.…

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, the son of Japanese immigrants who was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for actions in the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it had its biggest ever Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend, aided by…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers at Bread for the City, a venerable charity in the nation’s capital, thought they…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed slightly last year, a year after a…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings dropped in October but remained high, a sign that businesses became…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s asylum agency says the number of people seeking asylum in Europe has hit a six-year high, with Syrian…

MADRID (AP) — Spain said Wednesday it’s enacting a new ethics code to discourage toy manufacturers from using sexist stereotypes such as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A massive immersive experience celebrating Bob Marley is heading for its U.S. premiere…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — More than a thousand people have protested outside a prison in South Africa…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has held fundraisers and launched a political action…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Interior Ministry says police are investigating reports of a small blast at the Ukrainian…