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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have mounted a sea-and-air search for six people reported missing by a group of migrants found on the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former director of Mississippi’s welfare agency has pleaded guilty to new…

By SAM MCNEIL Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Nablus was a battered city. Shops gaped open to the street, their windows smashed. Street…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court has dismissed a government petition to declare the Communist Party of…

Associated Press The U.S. Federal Reserve has been the most aggressive in using interest rate hikes to cool inflation that is battering both…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A top Ukrainian government economist says the country’s efforts to defend itself from Russia…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected Alabama’s attempt to proceed with the execution of an…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped by more than a quarter-point this week to their…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks returned to Capitol Hill for a second day Thursday, and…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After an Indiana judge on Thursday blocked the state’s abortion ban…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — An envoy from China’s Xinjiang province says Chinese authorities are ready for a “fight” with…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church, whose close ties with Japan’s governing party have emerged after the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose slightly last week despite the Federal…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled banks have decided to remain indefinitely closed after rejecting a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will launch a training program with the goal of sending its own astronauts,…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press CHURDAN, Iowa (AP) — In the 1970s when George Naylor said he wanted to grow organic crops, the idea…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has apologized in court over his outburst against a…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person’s fingers when being rolled…

By ELEANOR REICH Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has started administering doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine tailored to fight the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Hamas is threatening hostile actions against Israel over what it called “violations against…

BANGKOK (AP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he believes his three-party alliance has a “fair chance” of winning a general…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish and Estonian rescue officials say a crude oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Finland, but the crew was able to…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — It was quite a collection of tennis luminaries sharing the black indoor hard court for a Laver…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The three Baltic states say they are not prepared to automatically offer asylum to…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia escalated its military and political campaign Thursday to capture Ukrainian…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the world’s biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank has intervened to stem the yen’s decline against the U.S. dollar. Earlier Thursday, the dollar rose…

By ZEN SOO and ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The head of Hong Kong’s largest journalist group has been granted bail. Ronson Chan…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “massive…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A rush for tickets for an India-Australia Twenty20 cricket match has left 20 people injured…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A United Nations-appointed human rights expert is calling for governments and companies to…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s national airline TAP Air Portugal says hackers obtained the personal data of some of its customers and have…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate by a quarter-percentage point as other banks around the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is considering an end to its quarantine requirement for all arrivals in mid-October.…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered another massive interest rate cut despite eye-popping…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England raised its key interest rate Thursday by another half-percentage point to the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The main candidates in Italy’s general election Sunday to elect a new Parliament and…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s central bank has carried out the biggest hike ever to its key interest rate. It’s following the U.S. Federal…

HOBART, Australia (AP) — Wildlife experts on Thursday rescued 32 of the 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Dozens of women holding babies rushed to take their places on wooden benches at a clinic…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press PRUDYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — The four soldiers lay in the grass, sleeping bags and cans of food, some opened,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico early Thursday, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting…

By SYLVIA HUI and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On a blustery November day last year Britain’s future king stood before world…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Aid agencies say the number of children working in Afghanistan is growing ever since…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device, and thieves know. An…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has honored Queen Elizabeth II with a day of mourning and a wreath of golden…

By JULIE WATSON and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Since escaping two weeks ago, officials say the fugitive Malaysian defense…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Executive directors of the Inter-American Development Bank voted unanimously Thursday to recommend…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the full force of the federal government is…

By PIA SARKAR Associated Press Heads of state from Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands have launched a “Rising Nations Initiative” as they race…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is reaching out to local governments. It hosted officials from North Carolina on…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his Connecticut defamation trial,…

By PIA SARKAR and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — One day after Ukraine’s president laid out a forceful case against…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve delivered its bluntest reckoning Wednesday of what it will take to…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The international court that judged the Khmer Rouge for its brutal…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor declares in a new television ad that she agrees men don’t…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer BENGALURU, India (AP) — Eight-year-old Jerifa Islam only remembers the river being angry, its waters gnawing…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Didion’s precision with words extended even to ones she would never live to hear,…

CLARE, Mich. (AP) — A woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing her father, sister and two handymen in rural mid-Michigan last year. Judy Boyer,…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The governments of South Korea and Japan say their leaders have agreed to accelerate…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside the grand hall of the United Nations, the world’s leaders are convening this week.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says he’ll meet with Ukraine’s and…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man who shot and wounded two southern Indiana judges outside an Indianapolis fast food restaurant in 2019 has been convicted…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a man who ran two California-based investment companies and frequently appeared as a TV financial news…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it hasn’t exported any weapons supplies to Russia during the war in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has declared a pre-Hispanic site in the central state of Guanajuato as an archaeological monument zone protecting it from…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man seen on a video slapping the back of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani accepted a deal to have assault charges…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four former correctional officers at a Georgia prison have been sentenced for their roles in the beating…

By ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activist Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Five of six Kentucky football players cleared by a grand jury last year on burglary charges have sued a Lexington police…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Two parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News Channel original, Trace Gallagher, will take over as anchor of the network’s newscast that airs at midnight on the…

HOUSTON (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy was found dead inside his family’s SUV hours after a man fatally shot his dad at a Houston gas…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A last-minute deal prevented a railroad strike for now, but many rail workers remain unhappy…

By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered the lone video speech at the U.N. General Assembly.…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has taken major action to address climate change by ratifying an international…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — After a decade in limbo, Nevada is pressing U.S. nuclear regulators to finally kill a mothballed…

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida highway had to temporarily close Wednesday after a semitrailer carrying cases of Coors Light crashed and turned…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who fled the U.S. and was eventually arrested in Croatia has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7.2 million…

BY FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the same day the Federal Reserve gave a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s trajectory,…