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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish official says his government wants formal rules to regulate the terms under which Israeli schoolchildren pay…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The last British governor of Hong Kong says Beijing’s crackdown on civil liberties in the former…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A giant stingray caught in the Mekong River last week is more than a giant — it is the biggest of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the…

By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of students from state universities marched in Sri Lanka’s capital on…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish prosecutor says three people have been charged with planning acts of terrorism by acquiring weapons and…

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government is banning companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed concern about rising food prices caused in part by the war…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic…

By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Holed up in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops keep a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa has offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to…

MADRID (AP) — Cooler temperatures are helping firefighters stabilize a wildfire in northwestern Spain that reports say is the biggest on record in…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was being held in a hotel room in southern Italy on Monday pending…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital joined forces on Monday to bring back home an international…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have seized three apartments and a bank account owned by a Russian lawmaker and his wife under European…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic. Johnson spokesman Max Blain said…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appeared in court in connection with an old corruption case.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers have renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China’s treatment of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that authorities have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from…

By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military machine is persevering in its ferocious effort to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in decades after last-minute talks between a union and…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philippine officials are mourning a government attorney fatally shot in Philadelphia and called for the perpetrator to be…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The world watched as Prince William grew from a towheaded schoolboy to a dashing air-sea rescue…

By ANN MEYERS DRYSDALE For The Associated Press Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA. The Hall of…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the man convicted of killing two clerics in a stabbing attack in April at a revered Shiite shrine…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov says he was not expecting the medal he was auctioning…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday rejected calls for him to publicly…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — By the numbers, the Jan. 6 committee hearings attracted 20 million live viewers on opening night,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European benchmarks were higher Monday after most Asian markets retreated, while the price of…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ERICA HUNZINGER Associated Press Title IX is best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and sexual harassment on…

By KIMBERLY CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington, D.C., say a 15-year-old boy was shot to death and three adults, including a police officer, were wounded…

By The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Rossann Williams, Starbucks’ North America president who’s been a prominent figure in the company’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press The 70-year-old suspected gunman in a shooting that killed three people at an Alabama church sat by himself drinking…

LONDON (AP) — A women’s doubles player who was born in Moscow will be able to get around the ban on Russians at Wimbledon this year because she…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old from South Korea has won the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, one of the top showcases for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Navy Department says a marine stationed at a base on the Baja California peninsula opened fire, killing two…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s traditional conservatives have scored a huge win in southern Andalusia by…

HOPEWELL, Va. (AP) — Officials say one of four inmates who escaped from a federal prison’s satellite camp in Virginia over the weekend has turned…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses and an official say three people have been shot dead in northwestern Nigeria…

By JAMIE STENGLE and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A year after Juneteenth became a federal holiday in the U.S., people gathered…

NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — Three people have been treated at and released from a hospital after a 70-foot yacht burned and sank in New Hampshire. The…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, was punched in the city’s Fourth Street Live entertainment district on Saturday night.…

ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Connecticut say the decision of Lego Group to build a new factory in Virginia won’t affect the company’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — Gennady Burbulis, a top aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin who helped prepare and sign the 1991 pact that led to the formal…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 6,000 bees were recently removed from inside the walls of an Omaha couple’s 100-year-old home. Thomas and Marylu…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, have been killed in an attack in the…