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BY ELODIE SOUPAMA AND SYLVIE CORBET LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France is sending police special forces to its overseas Caribbean territory of…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment. Francis urged them to “be…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is set to sign a declaration of intent with neighboring Jordan on building a major solar power plant in…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has gone into a nationwide lockdown to combat skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen have shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. No one immediately claimed…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America The class of U.S. Rhodes scholars for 2022 includes the largest number of women ever selected for…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say that a German reporter was briefly detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile has warned that a rebel…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MANDALIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Toprak Razgatlioglu, a Yamaha rider, became the first-ever…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas militant has opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one Israeli and wounding…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent Rumen Radev is the apparent winner in the…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus…

By SAMY MAGDY and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have cast ballots for thousands of local races under the scrutiny of…

By EVA VERGARA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Two onetime outsiders hailing from opposite extremes of the political…

BEIJING (AP) — China has reduced its official relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level after Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The eight stadiums for the 2022 Qatar World Cup — all within a 30-mile radius of Doha — are now largely…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympic…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials are investigating an oil sheen spotted Saturday near last month’s crude pipeline leak off Southern…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world’s largest…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says progress has been made by Indigenous people. But during a visit Saturday to Alcatraz…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Saturday said it did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse for any special access during his murder…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Law enforcement in Portland declared a riot Friday as about 200 demonstrators protested the acquittal of a teen who killed…

WHITE CITY, Ore. (AP) — Police in Oregon say they have seized 250 tons of illegal marijuana from several industrial warehouses in White City. The…

Big Spring, Texas (AP) — The three men killed in a fiery West Texas crash involving a school bus carrying members of a high school band include the…

By BILL CORMIER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a passenger awaiting a bag search at the Atlanta airport’s main security…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli officials say they successfully returned the remains of a 14-year-old Palestinian after mistakenly returning a…

ROME (AP) — The UN’s migration agency says 75 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya earlier this week as they attempted…

KEN POWTAK By The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Jordan Travis threw for three touchdowns and 251 yards and Florida State stopped Boston College in…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says the U.S. and its allies need to operate…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Czech model sentenced in 2019 to eight years in prison on charges of attempting to smuggle heroin from Pakistan to the…

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in North Carolina shot and killed a man after responding to a caller’s report that…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The ex-girlfriend of the man who detonated an explosive in downtown Nashville last Christmas has filed a lawsuit saying she…

DALLAS (AP) — Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas says she won’t seek reelection next year after spending 30 years in Congress. The…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The British Columbia Coroners Service has confirmed the discovery of three more…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press An attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse said after his client’s acquittal that he was determined to steer away from the…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island dropped “Providence Plantations” from its name a year ago, but not…

STUART, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed work on a $339 million reservoir constructed to cleanse water runoff before it…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have temporarily suspended the driving license of former top European Union official Donald Tusk and fined him…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a new map of congressional districts into law. The map will be in effect for the…

PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters are marching through Paris and other French cities to demand more government action to prevent…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Months before Ahmaud Arbery was killed, shooter Travis McMichael posted…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Democrats talked the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in…

BEIRUT (AP) — A group of U.S. congressmen have held meetings with Lebanon’s top leaders during a fact-finding mission to the Middle East nation…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Holiday season could strain COVID-19 home test supplies as more Americans try to screen…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says he will hold a series of talks in Europe about the…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani fire official says an early morning fire that erupted in a slum in the country’s south destroyed about…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it has now fully vaccinated 44 million people, which is more than half of its population of 85 million. The health…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery took the witness stand to tell jurors he pulled the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning a shadowy Russian group with…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has welcomed more than 200 foreign tourists to its largest island, the first to visit the Southeast Asian country…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is hoping that a charity soccer match that includes Swiss Guards, Vatican employees, priests, a player with Down syndrome,…

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The family of a prominent Afghan doctor says he was kidnapped…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s record high coronavirus death toll has persisted for a second straight day, as the number of new infections declined. The…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon says its navy has rescued a boat carrying migrants that had left the country heading west across the Mediterranean Sea, but…

LONDON (AP) — The man who was once Britain’s most powerful newspaper editor has dropped his bid to head the country’s broadcasting regulator.…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, have marched…

BEIJING (AP) — An employee of Chinese state TV has posted photos of missing tennis star Peng Shuai online in a new effort to dispel concern about…

PRAGUE (AP) — Soaring coronavirus infection rates in the Czech Republic have hit a new record for the second time this week. The Health Ministry…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police have arrested seven rioters in The Hague after youths set fires in streets and…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh say at least 17 people have died…