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By JIM SALTER Associated Press President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee has approved a draft resolution calling on the International Court…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of Mexico’s most iconic and beloved colonial-era city, Oaxaca, has made a desperate public plea for federal…

By MARK STEVENSON and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government is using video of homeless people and open-air…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility is proposing a $216 million solar farm project…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says he wants the next Lebanese president to be a…

By DAVID CRARY, PETER SMITH and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press In the midterm elections, evangelical Christians across the nation reconfirmed their…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Phillip Slaughter left the Army after 18 years and found a job similar to one he had in uniform:…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Aaron Appelhans is among a rare few in Wyoming: A Democrat who won in Tuesday’s midterm…

LONDON (AP) — A former security guard at the British embassy in Berlin has admitted spying for Russia and faces up to 14 years in prison. David…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has decided to launch a preliminary sex abuse investigation into French Cardinal…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters have passed a ballot initiative to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for people…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion…

By HARUKA NUGA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Russia’s ambassador to Tokyo has blamed Japan for straining relations between the…

By SAM MAGDY and WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — After days with almost no demonstrations, there were several small…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX, short billions of dollars, is seeking bankruptcy protection…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of people in Warsaw have marched peacefully in a yearly Independence…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Friday that Ukrainian flags were appearing “en masse and all over…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British climate activists say they are suspending a days-long protest that has clogged a major…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A gasoline tanker crashed and then exploded in north-central Nigeria, killing at least 12…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Bulgarians have taken to the streets to demand higher salaries to…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian police said two climate activists tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to…

LONDON (AP) — A judge in Scotland ruled Friday that a man who has spent almost a year fighting extradition to the United States is Nicholas Rossi,…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nations across the world pay respect with solemn ceremonies for their fallen soldiers in World War I…

GENEVA (AP) — Top U.N. officials updated a high-level Russian delegation on progress to facilitate Russia’s exports of food and fertilizer to…

BERLIN (AP) — KFC has apologized for accidentally sending an automated push alert to its app users in Germany that appeared to urge people to order…

BERLIN (AP) — Four German regions plan to scrap rules requiring people infected with the coronavirus to isolate at home, arguing that the pandemic…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under gray clouds and pouring rain at Arlington National Cemetery, Vice…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful, shallow underwater earthquake has struck near Tonga in the southern Pacific, prompting authorities to…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president has asked former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government,…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved a plan to keep the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April. That will extend…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Fans gathered Friday to remember slain rapper Takeoff, a member of the hip-hop trio Migos, in a…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say two Iranian-born brothers have been charged with aggravated…

By MATTHEW DALY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Biden administration has ramped up efforts to reduce methane…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president said Friday that special military units have…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union’s executive commission slashed its forecast for economic growth…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Four of Japan’s biggest rock stars formed a new band, The Last Rockstars, in a race against time…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s lead negotiator in ongoing peace talks is asserting that 70% of the country’s northern Tigray region is now…

By BARBARA SURK and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — A maritime rescue ship has docked in a southern French port carrying 230…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group has reported a 3 trillion yen, or $21 billion, profit…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is largely holding onto its stupendous surge from a day before, and stock indexes are…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Statistics show that Britain’s economy shrank in the three months to September, and forecasters…

BEIJING (AP) — China has confirmed leader Xi Jinping will attend both the meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized countries and the gathering of…

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER ISTANBUL (AP) — A prosecutor has repeated a demand for Istanbul’s mayor to be convicted on charges of insulting…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch World Cup squad will meet a group of migrant workers in Qatar after a…

By WANJOHI KABUKRU Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has delayed his departure for three upcoming summits in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Qatar may hope soccer fans ignore politics at the first World Cup in the Middle East. But Israel…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar is a Muslim nation, with laws, customs and practices rooted in Islam. The…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has approved the extradition of a 42-year-old woman facing murder…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Supply chains, Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impact of COVID-19 are top issues for U.S.…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities say that a lone assailant who killed one police officer and wounded another in a…

By SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BENBAN, Egypt (AP) — The Arab world’s most populous country is taking steps to convert to…

By REBECCA BLACKWELL and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicole is now a depression dumping heavy…

By ADAM BEAM and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are both…

By JOCELYN GECKER and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To Mona Cohen, a lifelong Philadelphia Democrat, democracy is under attack in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers Twitter’s relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check “verification”…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan is investing 70 billion yen ($490 million) to beef up semiconductor development and…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — She was the only woman soldier working in the guard room, surrounded by men who harassed and…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — She was the only woman soldier working in the guard room, surrounded by men who harassed and…

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders have done little to ramp up pressure on…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vote counting in Nevada’s closely watched races for Senate looked to spill into the weekend,…

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are looking for three Olympic medals belonging to a member of the U.S. women’s volleyball team after they…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s biggest online shopping festival, Singles’ Day, is muted this year with sales…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Polls closed three days ago in Arizona, but counting for the 2022 midterm elections continued…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have forged a ceasefire with Muslim guerrillas after 10 combatants were…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson has conceded defeat to Steve Hobbs in a tight race for Washington secretary of…

By MIKE CATALINI and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There were no signs that Republican Christina Drazan was improving on vote…

By ZEKE MILLER, SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — President Joe Biden says “it’s more urgent…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he’ll ask Chinese President Xi Jinping…