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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities have begun evacuating civilians from recently liberated sections of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s nuclear watchdog says regulators are considering revising a safety evaluation…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a top court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a man on completion of his jail term in connection with…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won a new seven-year term in a snap election in which the second biggest…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said more than 100 million euros was raised…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — FIFA’s threat of on-field punishment for players pushed World Cup teams to back down…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forty seven years after he took the stage at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in a…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say suspected Kurdish militants in Syria have fired rockets into a border…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has ruled that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert defamed his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and ordered…

By FIRMAN TAUFIQ and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds…

By YURAS KARMANAU and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the power is out, as it so often is, the high-rise apartment…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Daniel Aston would let loose on a typical night at Club Q in…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street sank and Chinese anti-virus controls…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has locked down its largest district as it tries…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says it has reopened its key Chaman border crossing with landlocked Afghanistan for trade and pedestrian movement.…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine officials say the United States is seeking an expansion of its…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has suspended his routine morning Q&A sessions with…

By THOMAS PEIPERT, JESSE BEDAYN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man suspected of opening fire at a gay…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-ruling coalition says it has not decided which bloc to support…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trailing badly in his Arizona Senate race as votes poured in, Republican…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian security forces used heavy gunfire against protesters in a Kurdish town in the…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Monday after Wall Street ended with a loss for the week amid anxiety…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers will take a vote on whether to lower the nation’s voting age…

By BERNARD CONDON and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The suspect in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting allegedly threatened…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine military commander says the Chinese coast guard has forcibly seized apparent…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s foreign minister has called U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said his panel is reviewing “serious allegations” in a report that a former…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gunfire on the streets of Saratoga Springs, New York, left at least three…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon gun rights group and a county sheriff have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a voter-approved ballot measure that…

DJERBA, Tunisia (AP) — Canada has expanded its economic sanctions freezing the Canadian assets of Haitian political elites to now include former…

By DANA BELTAJI and PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The decision Sunday by nations around the world to establish a…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press The operator of a natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania says workers have successfully plugged a…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students as they…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Icy air blasted fans packing the Al Bayt Stadium on the World Cup’s breezy opening…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of fans have gathered at a sports hall in Gaza City which Qatar prepared for the Palestinian residents of the…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children’s series…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico State University student-athlete was involved in the fatal shooting of a student from the University of New…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — In a tense meeting at the World Cup on Sunday, FIFA tried to end a standoff with European…

By DAN IKPOYI and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash…

MARION, S.C. (AP) — Criminal charges have been dropped against a former deputy who was helping to transport two mental health patients who drowned…

By DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A housewife who became a human rights campaigner when her two sons vanished after…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Just two days before the World Cup opener, host nation Qatar banned the sale of beer at stadiums…

NEW YORK (AP) — Latin American governments have selected Brazilian economist Ilan Goldfajn to lead the region’s largest development bank. It…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” extended its box-office reign in its second week of release with…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana woman heard the heartbeat of her late daughter inside the chest of a 68-year-old Illinois man who received it in a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America NEW YORK (AP) — Parts of New York finally caught a break Sunday after a storm spent days…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — President Joe Biden telephoned the American World Cup team ahead of their opening match against Wales. He said “let’s go…

By ISABEL DEBRE and STEPHEN WADE Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The fan zone set up in central Doha has turned into a chaotic scene on the…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Memories of the tumultuous 2016 Republican primary hung over the Las Vegas ballroom…

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — At least four people are believed to have drowned and rescuers were searching for another five people off the Florida Keys…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman extended one yellow-gloved hand to a FIFA World Cup…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian official says last week’s massive apartment fire in the Gaza Strip was ignited accidentally by a man…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Perss DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Chris, a British fan in Qatar for the World Cup, tried to order a beer with his dinner at a…

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a college student died while more than two dozen other passengers and the driver were injured when a bus…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government on Sunday denied a report that it is seeking a “Swiss-style” relationship…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Statehouse victories for Republicans this month are resonating for…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The first World Cup in the Middle East finally began Sunday night with a flashy opening…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — LGBTQ people fight for their rights across the world. And for many, the struggle…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being…

By LAURA UNGAR and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Grace Ferguson treated a woman whose water had…

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions from shelling shook Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. Army veteran Matt Schermerhorn couldn’t give blood for years because he was stationed in Europe during a…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that makes Jack Daniel’s is howling mad over a squeaking dog toy that…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Republicans had placed hopes on a roster of Latina candidates around the…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A breakthrough funding deal at the COP27 conference to help poor countries ravaged by climate…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and GIANFRANCO STARA Associated Press ASTI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis honored his northern Italian roots on Sunday by…

By JOHN LEICESTER and ROB GILLIES Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says it will investigate video footage circulated on Russian social…

MOSCOW (AP) — Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has sacked his internal affairs minister over funding…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A man being held at a much-criticized center for migrants in Britain has died after falling sick.…

By THOMAS PEIPERT and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle…

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Africa’s longest-serving president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, is expected to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Qatar has opened the Middle East’s first World Cup with its ruler sitting next to the…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan’s incumbent president is widely expected to secure an easy victory in Sunday’s snap election that comes…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The body armor propped against a radiator, ready for use, the spent shell casing adding to…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four standing ovations in one night might seem a little over-the-top, even by Hollywood…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan Supreme Court official says 19 people were lashed in the country’s northeast after being convicted of…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press MASAKHANE, South Africa (AP) — Living in the shadow of one of South Africa’s largest coal-fired power…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — After two weeks of haggling, officials on Sunday cheered the end of this…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday announced its first new death from COVID-19 in nearly half a year as strict new measures are imposed in Beijing and…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s next government appears to be leaning to the religious right as a…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sporadic violence and lower-than-expected turnout have marred Nepal’s…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Many delegates at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt cheered as a deal was agreed upon that would create a fund for…

By DAVID PEREDA Z. Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian officials say a fire truck that collided with a LATAM Airlines plane on a runway at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez has defeated rival Democrat David Kim in a Los Angeles district after a battle on the party’s…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will underscore America’s commitment to defending treaty…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has…

SNOHOMISH, Wash. (AP) — Investigators say four people are dead after a fiery plane crash Friday northeast of Seattle. The Seattle Times reports…

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Thousands of people joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff Saturday in…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — One month after raising the Ballon d’Or in triumph to crown his remarkable rise, Karim…