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By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s lawmakers have postponed until next week a debate on the damning report…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers and governments reached a deal Tuesday that would ban the import of products which contribute to…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The COVID-19 pandemic sent Heidi Whitney’s daughter into a tailspin. Suddenly the San Diego middle…

BERLIN (AP) — A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online has gone on trial in the western city of Cologne accused of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A newly founded Japanese semiconductor company aiming to revive Japan’s chip industry has signed…

BANGKOK (AP) — Three Thai railway workers have been killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded as they were clearing the wreckage of an…

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Protesters have tried to force their way into Mongolia’s State Palace, incensed by allegations of corruption…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has again threatened to “take action” against Greece if it continues to deploy weapons on its…

By STEVE PEOPLES and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Latvian media authorities have revoked the license of an independent Russian TV channel exiled in the Baltic country for,…

GDYNIA, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defense minister have taken delivery of a first shipment of tanks and…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s president has canceled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Residents of a Roma settlement have lit fires near a police station outside…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry says the country strictly adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons “at any time and…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A rift between the European Union and member state Hungary has deepened after Budapest vetoed an…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency has visited a West Virginia county…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones struck inside Russia’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday in the second day of attacks…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LLAZAR SEMINI TIRANA, Albania (AP) — EU leaders and their Western Balkans counterparts are to meet for talks aimed at…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Members of South Korea’s ruling conservative party have proposed a bill that would…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday after Wall Street declined on fears the Federal Reserve will need to keep…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Memphis police officer was wounded and a man was killed during a shootout following a call about a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees in northern Afghanistan, killing six people.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is trying to win over the Republican-controlled…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five…

By AMANDA SEITZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House and Senate leaders have bestowed…

By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders eulogized the late Jiang Zemin on Tuesday as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country’s rapid economic…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage…

FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — A southern Minnesota school district has agreed to accept a $1.1 million state grant meant to help curb drug use among…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it will expand temporary legal status for Haitians already living…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has fired a barrage of artillery rounds into waters near rival South Korea…

By ANDREW DALTON and ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A serial slayer known as the “Torso Killer” already convicted of 11 homicides admitted on Monday that he also killed five…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian branch of Amnesty International says it was the target of a cyberattack sponsored by…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Federal prosecutors say a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov.…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads now face pressure from investors to add sick days after Congress…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s troubled Maya Train tourist project will now include a 50-mile (78 kilometer) stretch of elevated trackway…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial will continue deliberating for a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first attempt to survey the extent of violence and harassment at work around the…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has become the second country in Central America to impose a state of exception suspending some…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has filed for reelection next year. The Democratic governor is…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of country singer Naomi Judd has filed a notice seeking to voluntarily dismiss…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has thrown out bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Former U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. has been named chancellor of the State University of New York, the…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who shot and wounded Lady Gaga’s dog walker while stealing her French bulldogs last…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming. Temperatures in Alaska’s northernmost community…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria has rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October. Interior Minister Ivan…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, JONATHAN DREW and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government now says at least 270 people died in a massacre last week in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis says it will toughen its…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A special grand jury has issued a scathing report against a northern Virginia school…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ top elections official has resigned. Secretary of State John Scott said Monday he would step down after an intense…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels against…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and European Union have agreed to intensify talks to resolve EU concerns…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a 14-year-old girl died and a 13-year-old girl was seriously injured after they were attacked by a man with a knife…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The German chemical company BASF will restore damaged natural resources at a notorious…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tuesday marks the first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota town has backed away from a proposal to let people sue abortion providers,…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the removal of thousands of pounds of chemicals from an oil refinery…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Port of Savannah plans a $410 million overhaul of one of its sprawling terminals to make…

BAAR, Switzerland (AP) — Commodities company Glencore has reached an agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo to pay $180 million over…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has deepened Charleston’s port to make sure it can take in any ship and…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The U.S. and Argentina have agreed to have their tax agencies automatically share data about their citizens’…

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press PUCARANI, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is one of the poorest nations in South America, and nearly a fourth of its…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule and its test dummies swooped one last time around the moon…

PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says one of his deputies fatally shot another while they were off duty and taking a break from playing an…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors say a man accused of killing four workers at a marijuana farm had…