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By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…

By WILSON RING Associated Press From minimum wage increases to animal protection to police accountability to both cutting and increasing taxes a…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and killed a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold, triggering…

SYDNEY (AP) — New coronavirus infections have soared again in Australia to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…

By JOHN LEICESTER and NICK PERRY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in the fourth calendar…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press An anguished encounter between two titans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle during the…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Wall Street ended 2021 on a weak note Friday, but still managed to end the year with big gains. The S&P 500…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity edged higher in December as supply disruptions eased and export demand weakened. The monthly…

By BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Coloradans driven from their…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square has arrived…

By AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial was a four-week winding road with…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian countries are looking to a China-centered trade bloc encompassing about a third of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the woman who says Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 insist that…

TORONTO (AP) — Quebec is reimposing a nighttime curfew beginning New Year’s Eve, and Ontario has delayed the resumption of school by two days as…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police say the suspect in a fire in Japan that killed 25 people has died at a hospital where he was…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus surge has upended plans to hold a major nuclear treaty conference at the United…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert described his path from nonviolent 1960s…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has sided with local law enforcement in a case brought by Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators alleging…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With a guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it’s streamlined the approval process for urgent use of…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Hundreds of homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The bodies of 15 more migrants killed in a Dec. 9 truck crash in southern Mexico have been returned to Guatemala. The remains…

HONOLULU (AP) — Military officials tell Hawaii lawmakers that they need more time to flush jet fuel from their Pearl Harbor water system. Navy…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have designated a member of the Pussy Riot punk group, a satirist and an art collector as “foreign agents” as…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises,…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press Authorities say a 2-year-old Alaska boy has been killed by his guardians months after his father…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol says the Supreme Court should let stand an appeals court…

The world’s population is projected to be 7.8 billion people on New Year’s Day 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That represents an…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a California man arrested in Iowa had an assault rifle, ammunition and a “hit list” that named…

By TALI ARBEL and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press The forces that have scrambled thousands of flights since Christmas Eve could ease in January, but…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man identifying himself as a German army soldier who recorded a threatening video with demands including the removal of…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian news media say that the widow of a Naples organized crime boss who was convicted of…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb exploded outside a college in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing four…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis. Jurors…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general says a small town’s police department has operated in a…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on death…

By AUDREY HOROWITZ Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP) — Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to COVID-19, becoming one…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer At-home COVID-19 tests are able to detect the omicron variant, but U.S. health officials say early data…

BALTIMORE (AP) — An explosion at a CSX facility in Baltimore created a loud boom but officials say they have no reports of any injuries. Baltimore…

By GLENN GAMBOA and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers The arts industry has been battered during the past 21 months, as organizations furloughed…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When NBC’s “This Is Us” begins its final season, fans won’t be alone in…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s culture minister has welcomed the return of 201 prized antiquities valued at over 10…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state statistics agency says that more than 87,500 people with COVID-19 died…

BEIRUT (AP) — Bahrain’s news agency says the king has appointed the country’s first ambassador to Syria in more than a decade.…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are pressing nursing home workers to get their booster shots…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press MARLY-LE-ROI, France (AP) — The increasingly fraught fight in France against an unprecedented surge in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio…

By MARTHA BELLISLE and TERRY TANG Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is…

DENVER (AP) — In a story published December 30, 2021, about policing reforms, The Associated Press erroneously characterized one aspect of a…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A member of the jury that convicted Minnesota police officer Kim Potter of manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright says…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials from the state of Virginia and the city of Richmond have tentatively decided the future of their now mostly…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla is recalling certain Model 3s because a coaxial cable for its backup camera can…

WINFIELD, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say homes and buildings were damaged and trees blown down as a line of intense thunderstorms rolled…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man fatally shot his 16-year-old daughter in the family’s Ohio home after he mistook her for an intruder.…

By DAVID CRARY and JOHN HANNA Associated Press Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then…

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two people believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters rallying against the…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell below 200,000, more evidence…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The news is a mixed bag for people in need of heating assistance who see a cold winter…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy shot a Malayan tiger that grabbed the arm of a man who was either feeding or petting the…

By PHILIP MARCELO and AMY TAXIN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal immigration officials have denied hundreds of Afghans seeking temporary…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has accepted an indictment against suspects from a religious association in a…

BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite images taken this week over the port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after an Israeli missile strike, hours after…

LONDON (AP) — Members of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family say they still believe she is innocent after a New York jury found her guilty of luring…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say six suspected rebels and an Indian soldier were killed in two separate counterinsurgency operations in disputed…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has reported a sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths as the National Health Service…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese officials are promising steady deliveries of groceries to residents of Xi’an, an…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press SIBIU, Romania (AP) — Officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe are anticipating a post-holiday…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Environment Minister said Thursday a clandestine oil deal between Israel and…

By NASSER KARIMI and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television says Tehran has launched a rocket with a satellite…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United States navy vessels have seized 385 kilograms (849 pounds) of heroin in the Arabian Sea worth some $4…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African leaders are paying tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his fearless…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet have been charged with sedition…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested a Hindu religious leader for allegedly making a derogatory speech…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a rampage in Denver is believed to have…

By AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the…

By SAM McNEIL, DAVID RISING and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An AP investigation reveals signs Myanmar’s military is reverting…

By SAM McNEIL, DAVID RISING and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An AP investigation reveals signs Myanmar’s military is reverting…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has urged its 1.2 million troops to unite behind leader Kim Jong Un and…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A fire has damaged the front doors and exterior of the Old Parliament House in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The…

TORONTO (AP) — Coronavirus infections have set new one-day highs in six Canadian provinces, prompting several provinces to impose more restrictions…