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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Schools across Sri Lanka are closed as health and environment officials say the…

MADRID (AP) — Leaders and representatives of nine Mediterranean and Southern European countries are preparing to meet in Spain, with the energy…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A Greek police officer accused of shooting and seriously wounding a Roma teenager…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A rash of COVID-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported Friday in areas across China after…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s nationalist conservative ruling party has ratcheted up its anti-German…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Ukraine’s finance minister says crucial Western financial support is “not…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military says more than 150 Rohingya have been rescued off the coast of Myanmar after their boat started taking on…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — An unprecedented crisis of confidence is shaking a historic center of Catholicism in…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — As the school bell rings, dozens of children begin filing into the canteen at Hillstone…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of South Korean truckers are returning to work after voting to end their…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P will be among eight people…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A month into the nation’s largest strike involving higher education, the work…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Nearly 400 South Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have requested…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press NUIQSUT, Alaska (AP) — Though the weather outside was frightful, schoolchildren in the northern Alaska Inupiat…

By STEPHEN GROVES and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s back…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, its legislators unable to agree on a new…

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Sara Milena is barely 20 days old. Her mother, Tania Herrera, lives with her parents, who…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Passing legislation to protect same-sex marriages in the Senate was a monthslong effort,…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s first female president appeared in a military ceremony…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin was on the Senate floor, but her mind was on the other side…

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. is closely monitoring Chinese activities that potentially threaten American assets in space as debris rapidly accumulates…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Two reviews of the May escape of a Texas inmate that resulted in the deaths of five people found…

By MARI YAMGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the U.K. and Italy.…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A judge has ruled that the director of a Guatemalan investigative newspaper will stand trial on charges of money laundering,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles authorities have given a little girl a license to own a unicorn — if she can find one. Animal Care and Control…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A store that had been openly and illegally selling psychedelic mushrooms in Portland, Oregon, was raided by police on…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Close to 60% of Haiti’s capital is dominated by gangs whose violence and sexual…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams is The Associated Press college football player…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament has approved a budget that includes reforms aimed at improving the country’s finances as it…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina drag performers and LGBTQ community members fear for…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s surprise announcement last July lacked any detail, but its…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. (AP) — Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo police say armed men fired guns from a vehicle, injuring one officer. A statement Friday said a police officer was…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two lawyers and a former U.S. attorney have been chosen to conduct an external review of the shooting that killed three…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The remains of a soldier from New Hampshire who went missing during the Korean War and was…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials outlined new conditions Thursday for a proposed permit for…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police in St. Paul, Minnesota, have released video from body and squad car cameras that they say shows an exchange of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Reflecting on her five years as New Zealand’s leader, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma residents has withdrawn a petition that sought to put a state question on the ballot that would protect…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A small team from the Wintu Tribe of Northern California is…

By MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the U.S. is sending an additional $275 million in military aid…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has resigned after being…

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina are seeking search warrants related to the shooting of electric substations in Moore County…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A show of prison artwork by a Russian arms trader serving 25 years in the United States and the focus…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has asked a judge to sanction St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, accusing…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched a batch of internet satellites for a competitor. Elon…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Advocates for people with mental illnesses urged a federal judge Thursday to stop New York…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The University of Idaho will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit from members of a Christian law…

MARENGO, Iowa (AP) — An explosion and fire at an agricultural plant in eastern Iowa has caused injuries and an evacuation of people near the…

RIDGEWAY, S.C. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say they have found no evidence linking gunshots near a Duke Energy facility in South Carolina to…

By JOHN HANNA, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, and JOSH FUNK Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military has passed the…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press The FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing a 7-year-old girl last week in Texas told authorities that he…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Supreme Court has reinstated a progressive prosecutor on a criminal…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In 2014, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana after being…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida driver in a fit of road range fired a shot at an SUV that passed him, not realizing it was a marked…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press The former warden of a federal women’s prison in California where inmates said they were…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press The brother of an American detained in Russia since 2018 says that his family fears he will…

By The Associated Press Reactions after WNBA star Brittney Griner was freed from a Russian prison in a high-profile prisoner…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ke Huy Quan is trying hard not to cry. He’s been crying a lot lately. Quan tends to get emotional…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court panel said New York can continue enforcing a new state law banning guns from “sensitive” places like…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana doctor has dropped a lawsuit that aimed to halt the state’s…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for…

AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO & SAM MEDNICK ASSOCIATED PRESS BENI, Congo (AP) — A new U.N. report says rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has declined to ease bond conditions and release a Chicago woman who is…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is confident that Finland and Sweden…

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit doctor already jailed on criminal sexual conduct charges connected to his work with youth hockey…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Taylor Swift was up. Elon Musk was in, out, in and maybe out again. Tom Cruise was back. BTS stepped aside, and…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has called for a review of the state’s investments to…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner’s 10-month imprisonment in Russia on drug charges came to an end on…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN, JIM MUSTIAN, MIKE BALSAMO, BERNARD CONDON and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Springs…