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By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The captive Ukrainian medic’s eyeglasses had long since been taken…

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern University’s president-elect is stepping down from the post after being diagnosed with an aggressive form…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov.…

By JADE LE DELEY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers have failed to pass a no-confidence motion requested by a leftist…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — California firefighters gained ground Monday in the battle against a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Europe’s highest court says Turkey has failed to comply with its ruling that a prominent Turkish philanthropist be immediately…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s leaders have marked the anniversary of the World War II-era Ukrainian massacre of Poles by stressing that only the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union says it will seek an 8% wage increase for millions of manufacturing workers in upcoming pay…

By The Associated Press If you missed last month’s supermoon, you have another chance. This month’s full moon is Wednesday. At the same time, the…

LONDON (AP) — Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone will be charged with fraud by false representation following a government investigation…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has called upon Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to clarify whether a map displayed by a…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet If you need to make a big purchase this year, such as an appliance or piece of furniture, consider your timing:…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court in Amsterdam has delayed verdicts in the trial of two men accused of murder in the fatal shooting of renowned…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union says it’s “critical” that authorities in the 27-nation…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials said Monday that countries have approved the first comprehensive guidelines for judging the value of nature following four…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities are considering implementing a health code system in the city that would…

LONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport has apologized to passengers whose travels have been disrupted by staff shortages. The airport warned…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of couples whose weddings were derailed or scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic got a do-over thanks to a New York…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Didn’t make it to Stonehenge for the solstice? There’s still time to catch…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A shooting outside a bar in Kansas City where off-duty police officers were working security has left one person dead and…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Several hundred shoppers and employees have stood for a minute of silence inside the Copenhagen mall where three people…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church confirmed the mother of the man accused of assassinating former Japanese…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as…

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say at least 150 people, mostly women and children, have died in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister are scattering tax-cutting…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Faeroe Islands government is proposing an annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins for 2022 and 2023, after…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian missiles struck a key Ukrainian city, Russian President Vladimir Putin…

BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose by a lackluster 3.4% over a year earlier in the first half of 2022 as anti-virus…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Chinese technology firms Alibaba and Tencent have tumbled after Chinese regulators fined…

By The Associated Press Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi are among the prominent figures…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish officials say three people have been gored, including one American, and three others suffered bruises in a tense…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Losing money due to COVID, the American casino giants that helped make Macao the “Las Vegas of…

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Tony Romo won the American Century Championship for the third time, beating Mike Mulder and Joe Pavelski with a 5-foot…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Wayne Rooney has agreed to coach D.C. United in Major League Soccer, a person with knowledge of the move said. The…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A political vacuum continues in Sri Lanka with opposition leaders yet to agree on who…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press For more than two years, the Biden administration has said that Palestinians are entitled to the same measure of…

BEIJING (AP) — Streets in the gambling center of Macao are empty after casinos and most other businesses were ordered to close while the Chinese…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Days after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, his party vowed to use its…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Tuesday after a slump on Wall Street erased recent gains. U.S. futures and oil…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed a crowd to the White House lawn Monday to showcase a new law meant…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MICHELLE R. SMITH and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press After members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group stormed…

By MARK STEVENSON and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is visiting Washington on…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Darby has formed far out in the Pacific west of southern Mexico, and forecasters said it would head farther out to sea…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church has began a special round of prayers for peace after two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America’s shores gathered to pay tribute to…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A new court filing from Amber Heard’s legal team alleges one of the jurors in the defamation case filed against her by…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A California doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico as a way to maintain…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Saudi opposition party says one of its founding members was killed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The National Assembly Party…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of an Israel-American girl killed in a 2001 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The remains of former Mexican President Luis Echeverria have been cremated, after a quiet memorial service. Mourners were few…

ATLANTA (AP) — Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa are safe after one of the plane’s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political…

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Republicans have fired their longtime party chairman at a tumultuous state convention that highlighted divisions…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — An activist who shouted “Where is Peng Shuai?” and held up a sign with the same…

By HOPE YEN and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a former White House strategist and ally of Donald Trump who faces…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic waited. He waited for Nick Kyrgios to lose focus and lose his way.…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday he is considering declaring a public health…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Potential successors to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are rushing to differentiate themselves…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A large crowd of angry Chinese bank depositors faced off with police Sunday, some roughed up as…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 3,000 firefighters and 30 aircraft are battling wildfires in Portugal that authorities say have injured 29…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A year after the largest protests in decades shook Cuba’s single-party government, hundreds…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea appeared to have launched artillery shells toward the sea…

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as “our product” on her run to the women’s…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund bought $25 million in…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has expressed hope that his country will establish formal diplomatic ties…

By ROGER SCHNEIDER Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A business district that had been blocked since the deadly July 4 parade mass…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Ministry of Defense says the first cohort of Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom have no…