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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to raise millions out of poverty and turn India into a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday after a rebound on Wall Street, despite regional investor risks…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Five years ago, the Whanganui River was recognized as a living person in a…

By SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former…

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection in R. Kelly’s federal trial on charges that he rigged his 2008…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Public school teachers across Venezuela had planned to use their annual vacation…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is offering “audacious” economic assistance…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court has begun hearing a final appeal by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to toss out his graft…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank has trimmed a key interest rate to shore up sagging economic growth at a…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian man has been charged with three weapons offenses after he allegedly used a handgun inside the Canberra…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career…

GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park’s entrance that sent visitors scrambling…

By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island’s…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in the last quarter as consumer…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One man died and another was seriously injured in the second fatal shooting this month near the intersection where George Floyd…

WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Police in eastern North Carolina say two customers at a two fast-food restaurant died when a vehicle crashed into the building.…

CHICAGO (AP) — Three people were killed and another injured when they were struck by a car during a hit-and-run on a Chicago street early Sunday,…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the trial is underway for a man accused of fatally shooting a 7-year-old girl who was…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says Israel has launched a missile attack on western and central regions killing three soldiers and…

PHOENIX (AP) — It’s been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their…

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Officials in a Boston suburb are investigating a former city employee they say shut down the police website during a pay…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who heads a small hard-right Republican group said he’s offered to pay the expected $229,000 cost…

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A police officer in Louisiana is in critical condition after police say a suspect ran over him with a vehicle and dragged him…

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plummeted 45 cents over the past three weeks to $4.10 per gallon.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sunday studio estimates say the Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” led all movies in ticket…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Gunfire and a subsequent explosion have left at least five people dead, 15 injured and several others missing, as well as…

PARIS (AP) — A major wildfire that ravaged pine forests in a tourist-beloved area of southwestern France has stopped expanding after rain fell…

JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A private prison company has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit over a Tennessee…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It’s not just the economy. While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and then began firing…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A defense mental health expert in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As part of an effort to keep illegal drugs and other contraband out of…

By GABRIELA SELSER and MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Earlier this month Nicaragua shuttered seven radio stations…

By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British authorities have quashed plans to prosecute protesters who attended a vigil for a murdered…

MADRID (AP) — A large wildfire in northeast Spain grew rapidly overnight and was burning out of control Sunday, forcing the evacuation of eight…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Svika Pick, a pillar of Israel’s music industry who gained international attention after his…

By JOHNSON LAI and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of American lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, just 12…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A United Nations-chartered ship loaded with 23,000 metric tons of Ukrainian grain…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A strong explosion at a fireworks storage area tore through a popular market in Armenia’s capital on Sunday, killing at…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top judicial body said Sunday it doesn’t have the authority to dissolve the…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in…

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a truck overturned and fell onto a passenger van in eastern Pakistan during heavy rain, killing 13 people and…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press NOVOSELIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — As battles raged around Kyiv, one Russian advance was…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi energy company Aramco said Sunday its profits jumped 90% in the second…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Weeks after followers of an influential cleric stormed parliament, Iraq’s…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say seven people were killed by a torrent of water that came rushing down a river in a popular recreational spot…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — Standing in front of 1,500 Republicans at a rural ranch backdropped by…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Three Arizona parents have been arrested after trying to force their way onto an elementary school…

NEW YORK (AP) — Anshu Jain, a fomer co-CEO of Deutsche Bank, has died, according to a statement by his family on Saturday. He was 59. Jain died of…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of Nicaraguans have attended Mass under a heavy police presence after the…

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese official says floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan have killed more than 50 people and inundated over…