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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is preparing its recommendation on Ukraine’s request to join the EU. The European…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The cryptocurrency company Circle says it will start issuing its first euro-denominated…

PARIS (AP) — McDonald’s France and related companies have agreed to pay over 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to the French state to settle a…

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at an international tribunal have sentenced two members of the militant Hezbollah group to life…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Central Bank has issued a directive allowing licensed exchange offices to resume buying and selling foreign currency,…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways, one of the Mideast’s largest carriers known for on-board…

LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced a new round of sanctions against Russia. Those targeted include Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Violence has erupted in parts of India with thousands of angry youths setting train coaches and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Blas whirled off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Thursday, prompting a precautionary port closure in a region…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Rich countries including the European Union and the United States have pushed back against efforts…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is beefing up its code of practice on disinformation by enlisting more tech…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Revlon, a cosmetics maker that broke racial barriers and dictated beauty trends for…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket made his first…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t be testifying at the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But Pence…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before the ceremony and the serious meetings about war, the European leaders witnessed the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors said Thursday they have issued an indictment for murder and other charges…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say that at least 35 teenage girls have been rescued after being held…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in Bangladesh’s capital to demand the governments of Bangladesh and India officially…

By IRINA TITOVA and JIM HEINTZ Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The head of the Russian Central Bank is warning that the country’s…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police in Kosovo have reported a series of bomb threats to schools in Serb-dominated areas of the country and say they have…

By FRANCESCA EBEL and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A nationwide public sector strike in Tunisia is poised to paralyze…

GENEVA (AP) — After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Officials say a fire broke out in an apartment building in Slovakia overnight, killing at least four people. Police say…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor is stepping up an appeal for the country’s residents to save energy after Russia’s Gazprom…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will launch a new task force dedicated to fighting online…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers are discussing ways to bolster forces and deterrence along the military…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Small Italian fashion producers are still allowed to export to Russia despite sanctions,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The ethics adviser to scandal-hit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and accused the…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kristia Leyendecker has navigated a range of opposing views from her two siblings and other loved…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Foreign ministers from India and Southeast Asia are meeting in New Delhi, with India and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly lower Friday after Wall Street fell on fears interest rate hikes…

By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Four European leaders expressed their support for Ukraine on Thursday…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S.-led global coalition fighting the Islamic State group says it has conducted a military…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two officials say the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, known as Houthis, have recruited several hundred…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister has made New Zealand the first stop on her third…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An official says that a Yemeni journalist was killed when his car exploded while he was…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t be listing the iconic western Joshua tree as a threatened species…

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — This gateway town to Yellowstone National Park has become a dead end, a…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — The wife of a man who killed two police officers in a Los Angeles…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government is facing criticism following his plea to the…

By STEVE PEOPLES and SAM METZ Associated Press Nevada Republican Jim Marchant insisted there hadn’t been a legitimate election in his state in…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t be testifying at the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But Pence…

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn his 2020 election…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation,…

By FABIANNO MAISONNAVE, EDMAR BARROS and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities say a fisherman confessed…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ALONG BAYOU POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. (AP) — As another hurricane season gets started, many Native American…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ALONG BAYOU POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. (AP) — Driving through her village along a southeastern Louisiana bayou,…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KOZANI, Greece (AP) — At Greece’s largest coal mine, controlled explosions and the roar of giant…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. border authorities stopped migrants more often on the southern border for a fourth straight month in May, apparently…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — While reviewing the photo archives left by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, despite an underwhelming start eight months ago, is enjoying…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby told jurors they need to look past years of public…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — As the summer rainy season known simply as the monsoon started Wednesday, concerns grew…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Supreme Court is allowing customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency says Europe should be more much worried than it is that larger…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colette Peters, who runs Oregon’s prison system, has emerged as the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell say she should face no more than four to five…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Eleven Haitian women have been buried in Puerto Rico a month after the overloaded…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president may be having second thoughts about the crypto-currency, whose…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican Nick Begich and independent Al Gross…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mo’Nique and Netflix reportedly have settled her lawsuit that accused the streaming service of racial and sexual…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Canadian bicyclist who was raising money for his granddaughter’s kidney transplant with a…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles prosecutor says the killing of Nipsey Hussle was premeditated by a…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has produced only about half the sugar it had projected this season and authorities acknowledge that while they will cover…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says new DNA testing shows that a man acquitted at retrial of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s city council has approved a resolution apologizing for the Massachusetts…

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Europe say they have figured out the origins of the Black Death, a bacterial plague that wiped out half of the…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican Oklahoma state representative who is a self-described death-penalty supporter said…

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago man charged in the drowning deaths of his three young children left a note for his…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man has pleaded no contest to charges related to trying to get $5,000 from a state…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a California man who was found with a gun, knife and pepper…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with shooting and killing a passenger on a New York City subway train has…

RUNNEMEDE, N.J. (AP) — LeBron James might be on the cusp of setting another record. And someone will have to pay a lot of money to make it happen.…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. veterans from Alabama who were in Ukraine assisting in the war against Russia…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One month ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the District of Columbia is…

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson is apologizing for saying that white male writers are being subjected to “just another of form of racism”…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines that erupted during the 2020…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A dozen students and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The $1 billion package of military assistance the U.S. announced for Ukraine is aimed at…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s expensive effort to influence the GOP…