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By FRANCOIS MORI Associated Press BREST, France (AP) — Australia and France are drawing up plans to strengthen their defense cooperation as the two…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Danielle has formed Thursday in the Atlantic, but is not currently a threat to any land. The storm’s maximum…

BY DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Abortion rights advocates in San Marino say they’re pleased that lawmakers in the tiny…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire. The recall covers…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five…

By The Associated Press Permanently misspelled tweets might soon be a thing of the past. Twitter said Thursday it’s working on allowing users…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police have arrested two people in connection with a federal investigation into their suspected support for, or participation…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press With millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok, Amelie Zilber is used to sharing her life with the public.…

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc.,…

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Two biopharmaceutical companies will give $5 million and $500,000,…

BERLIN (AP) — The stench is gone and, slowly, the fish are returning to the Emscher, a river through western Germany’s industrial heartland…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A judge on Yemen’s Supreme Court was killed in the capital Sanaa this week, officials…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling the energy crisis and a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany have surged as government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already struggling…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12.…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country’s reunification after…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say the chairman of the board of Russia’s largest private oil company fell out of a hospital window and died.…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military says it has shot down a drone hovering over one of its island outposts just off the Chinese coast.…

By JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency…

BEIJING (AP) — China is responding furiously to a United Nations report on alleged human rights abuses in its northwestern Xinjiang region…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government is calling on Washington to repeal technology export curbs after…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is slashing the number of visas issued to Russian citizens to a tenth of the regular…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is warning that any actions seen as endangering a Russian peacekeeping contingent in a separatist region…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — About 2 in 10 U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature was advancing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gun-control advocates could have had one more victory in their very successful…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health officials are reporting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the flood-affected…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have locked down Chengdu, a southwestern city of 21 million people, following a spike in COVID-19 cases.…

By KEN MORITSUGU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The moment that the black wall telephone rang early on the morning of Sept. 29,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data that might influence Federal…

By BASSEM MROUE Associates Press BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years since Hezbollah was founded at the height of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is hailing economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two…

By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press GELSDORF, Germany (AP) — Solar installations on arable land are becoming increasingly popular in Europe and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister on a visit to East Timor is warning the nation against…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are battling two California blazes that are raging in rural areas and have prompted evacuations in the midst of…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Nimmo saved Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets with a breathtaking catch atop the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A small robot with a clip-like hand and the smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU ASSOCIATED PRESS MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said at the third Africa Climate Week conference…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian former first lady Rosmah Mansor has been ordered to serve 10 years in prison…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police officer shot in the head during a traffic stop will be taken off life support on Thursday. The…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defamation lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal government has apologized to relatives of those who died in a 2011 arson attack at a casino that killed…

By JANIE HAR and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will establish a new court program to steer and even force…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An assistant principal at a public elementary school in Connecticut is facing an…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Supreme Court says the state Senate can keep hundreds of records related to its…