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BEIJING (AP) — The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday. It will also largely restrict people to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party and its coalition partner scored a major victory in a parliamentary…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZHURIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Oleksandr Chubuk’s warehouse should be empty, awaiting the new harvest, with his…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is criticizing Southeast Asian nations for not doing…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The shooting sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan: A prominent politician was killed by a…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have charged 12 people in connection with the murder of a government supporter who was once…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government is now going after one of the few local newspapers that dared to…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister said late last month that the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new tropical storm has formed far off Mexico’s Pacific coast while another faded after a long march from ocean to another.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says a retired three-star general has been suspended as a military adviser. The suspension follows reports that his…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say a couple kept a cache of weapons and lived with their two small children at a northern Nevada children’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — A report says World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Production of baby formula has resumed at the Abbott Nutrition factory in Michigan whose February shutdown over…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani government lawyer says a prominent TV anchorperson was released following his arrest earlier this week near…

BERLIN (AP) — German police are investigating after several women reported feeling unwell following an event hosted by the parliamentary group of…

SEBASTIAN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman is charged with failing to report her mother’s death more than two months after the woman’s body was…

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Joseph Raymond Goulet, a veteran who landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on D-Day, has died. The New Hampshire…

TORONTO (AP) — Rogers Communications Inc. says it has restored mobile and internet service for “the vast majority″ of customers after an…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s semi-official media are reporting that authorities arrested an influential pro-reform activist, saying…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has died at the age of 89. Oprah confirmed in an Instagram post that her father…

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Friends, neighbors and dignitaries have paid their respects to the family of Eduardo…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — In a joint statement, the European Union’s Foreign Affairs chief…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 87 migrants crammed into a truck with a trailer in the southern…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who tried to cast himself…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s governing center-right Reform Party has reached a tentative deal to form a coalition…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British Cabinet minister tipped to be a frontrunner in the Conservative Party’s leadership…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It would have been something never quite before seen in America — a defeated…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government hasn’t done enough to protect a rare species of whale from…

BERLIN (AP) — A techno parade whose initiators include the founder of the Love Parade, once a popular annual party in Berlin, took to the streets…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press THIRA, Greece (AP) — Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A top court in Slovenia has ruled that bans on same-sex couples getting marrying and adopting children are…

By The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana has postponed his next six shows after collapsing on stage during a concert on Tuesday,…

FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Attention drivers at the George Washington Bridge: Your cash is no good here. Starting Sunday, drivers looking to cross the…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Emergency workers have rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are raising “true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland,…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — They were the ones who lived in a world in which their husbands, sons,…

By BARBARA SURK and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The right to abortion in France hardly seems under threat — it’s been inscribed…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — City officials in Pamplona, Spain, say no one was gored after all during the San Fermín Festival bull run. They revised an…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Despite his prominence as Japan’s longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe may have enjoyed his…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — From his days stoking anti-European Union sentiment with exaggerated newspaper…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A top police official on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump considers another White House run, polls show he’s the most popular figure in…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — In a story published July 9, 2022, about a California wildfire, The Associated Press erroneously reported,…

By RICHARD LARDNER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Russian forces…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Pierce County Council candidate Josh Harris will not be charged with any crimes following a shooting in which…

TORONTO (AP) — A widespread network outage left many Canadians without mobile and internet service for most of the day, disrupting police, business…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog is sending investigators to another Tesla crash. This one…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press A Texas judge has continued blocking the state from investigating two families of transgender youth that have…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A report released Friday says the social services system “failed” 13 children who were rescued after being starved,…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike says Brittney Griner is an American hero. Speaking ahead of the WNBA’s All-Star…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The supervisor who was in charge of the Santa Fe National Forest when the federal…