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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Somalia’s president has called for assistance from Turkey to combat the effects of severe drought that is threatening the…

KAREEM CHEHAYEB The Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese minister says the government hopes to start repatriating Syrian refugees within…

By SONO MOTOYAMA of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the nation’s wealthiest…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. dog lovers, say “benvenuto” to the bracco Italiano. The ancient Italian bird-hunting…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of migrants, who have been living in Germany for years without a secure stay…

By LUCA BRUNO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press CANAZEI, Italy (AP) — Conditions in the Italian Alps were too unstable Wednesday for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Bonnie weakened Wednesday after becoming the first major storm of the eastern Pacific season while off southern…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s purchase of video game publisher Activision Blizzard faces antitrust scrutiny in the U.K., where competition regulators…

By The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Guitar icon Carlos Santana collapsed on stage during a show in Michigan and was rushed to a hospital, later…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The suspected ringleader of a network that smuggled as many as 10,000 people on small boats across…

By MICHAEL TARM, KATHLEEN FOODY and DON BABWIN Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The man charged with killing seven people at an…

MADRID (AP) — Italian singer Raffaella Carrà has had a square in Spain’s capital named in her honor a year after she died. Madrid’s town hall…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Three days of monsoon rains left at least 17 people dead and damaged dozens of homes across southwest Pakistan, officials…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that he had a telephone call with…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked his 87th birthday on Wednesday by…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada says that Afghan soil will not be used to…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says the government plans to nationalize French…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KUJE, ABUJA (AP) — A Nigerian official says that at least 600 inmates escaped in a jailbreak in Abuja, the…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet In the 1990s and early 2000s, hotels began offering 100% Satisfaction Guarantees to customers. The promise ensured that…

Associated Press The war in Ukraine is fueling fears of a natural gas emergency in Europe. Russia has throttled back supplies to more countries, this…

BEIJING (AP) — China has launched a scathing attack on the U.S. and NATO, days before a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and…

By IRENE YAGÜE and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of revelers erupted in celebration Wednesday as the traditional…

By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds Two prime picks for a three-row compact SUV are the 2022 Kia Sorento and 2022 Volkswagen Tiguan. The Sorento was recently…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A convicted Italian mobster, one of Italy’s most sought-after fugitives, has been…

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — One million Muslim pilgrims were converging on Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca on Wednesday for the largest hajj…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the capital of North…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch police have shot at a tractor during a heated night of farm protests and detained three demonstrators. It was the latest…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press EAST LONDON, South Africa (AP) — The deaths of 21 teenagers in a nightclub tragedy is a crime and South…

PARIS (AP) — A strike by railway workers demanding higher pay amid cost of living increases is interrupting train services in France. National…

By FRANCESCA EBEL and MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has redoubled its push for Ukraine’s eastern Donbas…

BERLIN (AP) — Economists say current measures aren’t enough to achieve Germany’s targets for phasing out fossil fuels and ramping up renewable…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has shot and killed a Palestinian man during an arrest raid near the city of Jenin in the occupied…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to include natural gas and nuclear in…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to remain in office Wednesday,…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says the 27-nation Europe Union…

By CHINEDU ASADU and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer Two generations after its 1966 debut, the universe of “Star Trek” has become a vast and sprawling mural in…

By MATT O’BRIEN and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press REMINGTON, Va. (AP) — For years, there’s been a cardinal rule for flying civilian…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — New Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has met China’s top diplomat to take up…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Vietnam as part of an effort to bolster ties…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said higher U.S. interest rates…

By The Associated Press Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, Anastasia has started her day by composing an anti-war message and posting it on the wall…

By AHMED HATEM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — With verdant gardens on one side and water on the other, they were an anomaly in a city…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Parts of Australia’s largest city have been inundated by four major floods since March…

BEIJING (AP) — Residents of parts of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to undergo further rounds of COVID-19 testing following the discovery…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story published July 6, 2022, about an appellate court hearing on immigration policy, The Associated Press incorrectly…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Sri Lanka is desperate for help with weathering its worst crisis in recent memory. Its…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the world’s largest nations are looking to address Russia’s…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For some of the Washington, D.C., residents who reported for jury duty last month, a…

By MICHAEL TARM and BRYNN ANDERSON Associated Press ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace…

By DANIEL POLITI and DEBORA REY BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The abrupt resignation of Argentina’s economy minister has engulfed the country in…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a woman may cite sex trafficking as an immunity…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Cricket has come as a welcome distraction for Sri Lankans having to spend days in long…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters have inundated or are threatening the homes of 85,000 people around…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Caribbean court has ruled that a law in Antigua and Barbuda that criminalizes gay…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers has expired. But both…

CALEDONIA, Miss. (AP) — Bradford Freeman, the last survivor of the Army unit featured in the World War II oral history book and miniseries “Band…

QUINCY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say nine people died over the holiday weekend from likely drug overdoses in a rural Florida Panhandle county. After…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three children whose bodies were found in a suburban Minneapolis lake over the holiday weekend died in drownings that were…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican navy has begun a controversial plan to drop dozens of concrete blocks onto the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Kevin Nicholson, a business consultant whose campaign for governor in battleground…

By MICHAEL TARM and SARA BURNETT Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — David Shapiro and his wife brought their two young kids to enjoy the…

CUMBERLAND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a plan that calls for transferring about 4,000 dogs currently housed at a troubled Virginia…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court is allowing the Biden administration to implement an…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The pro-independence Polisario Front is accusing Morocco of obstructing a visit by the…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani TV anchorperson known for publicly supporting former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested on the…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Italy was enduring a prolonged heat wave before a massive piece of Alpine glacier broke off and killed hikers on…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year as the ongoing megadrought worsened by…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Birds tweeted — not fashionistas — the day Chanel brought its couture guests to the…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In a state with some of the country’s toughest gun regulations and a city that bans…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys sparked criticism on social media Tuesday after announcing a marketing agreement with a gun-themed coffee…