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BEIJING (AP) — A former Chinese vice minister of public security has gone on trial, accused of collecting 646 million yuan ($96.3 million) in…

By FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shinzo Abe was a political blueblood groomed for power. Japan’s longest…

By FRANCESCA EBEL and MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian regional official is warning of deteriorating living…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s banks aren’t sufficiently considering risks from climate change…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak formally launched his campaign to replace…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Asia this month, her first trip to the…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government on Friday declared an eight-day state of alert due to a heightened…

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a…

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says Ghana has reported two possible cases of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease,…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities say there were no gorings in the second San Fermín Festival bull run in the Spanish city of Pamplona. But the…

By CARA ANNA and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — She had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began. It was…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Leaders around the world condemned the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister…

TOKYO (AP) — Born into a prominent political family, Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot at a campaign event Friday in western Japan, had been the…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Nightly protests in North Macedonia over the last week…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a winning week with a sputtering finish…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 10 people — including two children — have been killed by heavy and unseasonal flooding in Afghanistan’s eastern…

By AMR NABIL Associated Press MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world were raising their…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia and New Zealand’s prime ministers have agreed that security concerns…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press LANGLEY, Virginia (AP) — President Joe Biden is lauding the CIA as the “bedrock of our…

BEIJING (AP) — China has demanded the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan during a virtual meeting between the joint chiefs of staff…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Concerns about inflation and personal finances have surged while COVID has evaporated as a…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hours after a gunman killed seven people at a July 4th parade in suburban Chicago, Illinois…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese capital Beijing appears to have backed off a plan to launch a vaccine mandate for…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A new exhibit at Bishop Museum in Honolulu is drawing attention to a more than 500-year-old story…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong hiring report for June has assuaged fears that the U.S. economy might be on…

By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay has stopped administering coronavirus vaccine to children under age 13. The…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Mourners on Friday remembered a woman who worked tirelessly at her synagogue…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the “extreme”…

UNITED NATiONS (AP) — The European Commission president and United Nations chief have opened the first EU-U.N. high-level dialogue by saying the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Soldiers in northern Mexico have found two men who were kidnapped in June by a drug gang boss who allegedly killed two Jesuit…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press HIMEJI, Japan (AP) — Nittosha, a small Japanese manufacturer, is stopping the production of matchbooks. The…

BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Police say a Black business leader and community activist who joined Tulsa civic leaders in fighting then-President Donald…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Sandwiched between supporters holding “BANS OFF OUR BODIES” signs and TV…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” manga comic and trading card game, has died,…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Shuan Shuan, the oldest panda in Mexico, has died at the age of 35. Mexico City’s Environment Department said the panda died…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press A Republican candidate for Michigan governor has pleaded not guilty for his actions during the insurrection at the…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Police say they’ve arrested the man who used a flamethrower set fire over the weekend to a Pan-African flag…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner says a man was shot and killed after he swung a baseball bat during a confrontation with people…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has authorized state forces to apprehend and transport migrants to…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge says a Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz have met in the occupied West Bank. They…

Russian prosecutors are calling for prison sentences for a prominent opposition activist and for a Moscow city council member who opposes the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed has picked a vocal critic of District Attorney Chesa Boudin to replace him in office after he…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of a man fatally shot outside an Arkansas hospital while trying to drive away in a stolen truck has filed a…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even though Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside a Los Angeles clothing store…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO, SARA BURNETT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading contender for the Republican nomination for…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer accused of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA…

By JORGE RUEDA Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities are investigating the slaying of an Indigenous leader who…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The wife of Nicaraguan political activist Félix Maradiaga told journalists her husband had lost more than 65 pounds during his…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Attorneys for a white man charged with killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket were unable to secure a year’s…

MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Michigan tourist who tried to retrace the steps of a family who died during a grueling summer hike in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation’s highest civilian honor, the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was convicted of murder in connection with a 2019 robbery in New York City that led to a police officer’s shooting and…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan regulatory panel wants more information on Enbridge Energy’s plan…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Co-stars and admirers are reacting to the death of “Godfather” star James Caan. Billy Dee Williams starred opposite Caan in…

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s police chief says a city oficer fatally shot Wednesday as he responded to reports of a man firing a weapon was…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer LEAD, S.D. (AP) — In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press The former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has withdrawn from the…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have held a peaceful protest in the capital Tirana, urging the center-left…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Once-unthinkable coordination between Israeli and Arab militaries is in…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A rights watchdog says former officials in Poland have been identified among the victims of attempted phone hacking with the…

ROME (AP) — Rescue crews in northern Italy have recovered a tenth body following a deadly avalanche sparked by the collapse of a chunk of melting…

TORONTO (AP) — A report by the Royal Bank of Canada says the country is headed towards a recession in 2023, but it will be short-lived and not as…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature “Murina,” about a 17-year-old girl with a domineering father…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Reporter SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A NATO senior official says Western Balkan countries don’t face an…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors have announced charges against a government agent and private investigator in a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for Mississippi’s only abortion clinic filed papers…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and…

By OUMAR ZOMBRE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore returned to the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme…