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By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says that in a rare move, authorities have allowed women to attend a soccer game at the Tehran Azadi…

PARIS (AP) — EU lawmakers have a new reason to be annoyed with Britain: British sewage overflows seeping into the English Channel and North Sea.…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has filed terror charges against a senior member of the Islamic Jihad…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press The Movement for Black Lives is launching a new climate change initiative Thursday, uniting more than 200 Black…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year. For…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California set itself on a path Thursday to end the era of gas-powered cars, with…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is postponing the start of the…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The school board and union representing teachers and other employees in Ohio’s largest school district say they have…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by 137,000 to a total of 1.15…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year. For…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate from April through June, the government said in…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A group that represents cultural organizations in Germany has criticized climate activists for…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press LANCASTER, Ca. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says authorities in neighboring Belarus are leveling a memorial site containing the graves of Polish…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The president of a local NAACP branch in Florida has resigned, saying that as a South Asian woman she was racially…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in different parts of Afghanistan have left hundreds of people dead in the past month. The…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will grant visas to those holding tickets to the World Cup in neighboring Qatar. The Saudi Foreign…

GENEVA (AP) — The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections. That…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has signed a $2.25 billion contract with a Russian state-run nuclear…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top court has dismissed appeals in the killing of a regional politician who had advocated helping refugees. The Federal…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Rick Duke says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will…

BANGKOK (AP) — Independent Myanmar media say a former British ambassador to Myanmar who now heads a business ethics advisory group has been…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a major buildup of his…

By DAVID RISING and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has entered a phase of political uncertainty, with its prime minister…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis in Britain is about to get worse. Millions of people will pay about 80% more a…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The outgoing U.N. human rights chief has suggested her office won’t make good on her promise to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s interior ministry says two police officers were killed as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has barred police from arresting the country’s former prime minister until…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a speech by the Federal…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — More than a year after the Taliban takeover that saw thousands of Afghans rushing to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The moving vans have already started arriving at Downing Street as Britain’s Conservative Party…

By FRANK JORDANS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the middle of the fighting in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — From Mustafa Moeen’s spot behind the counter, he sees the many faces of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page has…

ROME (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has reportedly canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s national police chief said Thursday he will resign to take responsibility over the…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are marking the fifth anniversary of their…

CHONGQING, China (AP) — The city of Chongqing is known for both soaring temperatures and spicy cuisine, notably its hotpot: a peppery bubbling…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — If Dr. Mehmet Oz is elected to the U.S. Senate this fall, he’ll be the first Muslim ever…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling on Democrats “to vote to literally save…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has returned to court for a second…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — On a hot, humid East Coast day this summer, a massive container ship…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — On a hot, humid East Coast day this summer, a massive container ship…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 100 inmates in an overcrowded jail have climbed atop the roof of a prison building…

MARÍA VERZA MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge in Mexico has ruled that the former attorney general who oversaw the original investigation into the 2014…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Islamic Jihad militants have displayed life-sized replicas of their rockets during a parade in the Gaza Strip.…

By KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Tropical Storm Ma-on has made landfall in southern China’s Guangdong province after bringing rain…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal appeals court has upheld Mississippi’s removal of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is calling on Myanmar’s military-installed government to…

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s widow was awarded $16 million as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday…

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago police department says one of its officers fatally shot a man who was advancing toward him armed with a…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A subsidiary of insurance giant State Farm has agreed to pay the federal government $100 million in restitution over its…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court has agreed to hear an appeal from Harvey Weinstein over his 2020 rape conviction. A spokesman for the…

By DON BABWIN and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say three juveniles and one adult have been shot…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago have sought to portray a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it found four new fever cases in its border region with China that…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sephora Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming the company sold customer information…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, as the agency’s next director. Her appointment…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says U.S. military airstrikes in eastern Syria were a message to Iran and…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities…