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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it has started evaluating whether to authorize Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for…

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Two German men have gone on trial in northern Italy in connection with a boat crash in…

PRAGUE (AP) — Coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic have jumped significantly and are at levels close to record numbers seen during previous…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is reporting that coronavirus deaths rose by 10% in Europe in the past week, making it the only world…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has sharply attacked the failure of social media companies to challenge…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says workers are using excavators to clear debris from the site in eastern Turkey where…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Top Israeli defense officials say the country is preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict with regional arch-rival Iran…

BEIJING (AP) — A snowstorm that has lingered for several days in northeastern China has forced schools to close, suspended rail services, crushed…

By VANESSA GERA, MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union officials have accused Belarus of…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s health minister says it will be able to obtain enough vaccines to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The world’s top two carbon polluters, China and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Young people living in Pacific Rim countries want to see more ambition from their…

TOKYO (AP) — Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says China’s leaders don’t understand the variety of different cultures and…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national disease control center has reported a record-high number of new…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Shares of Rivian Automotive jumped in their debut Wednesday, rising as much as 53% as…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Countries that rely on glaciers are facing trouble as many ice sheets melt because of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fumio Kishida, who was reelected as Japan’s prime minister after his governing party scored a…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will visit a COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot clinic in Los…

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he stands behind the comments he made last week about why he…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for an American journalist jailed in Myanmar for more than five months says his client has…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are trading mixed after a worrisome report on U.S. inflation that slammed into the…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — As an entertainer, George Kordahi connected with generations of viewers in the Middle East as the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation says that people who trust Fox News Channel and other…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s biggest online shopping day, known as “Singles’ Day” on Nov. 11, is taking on a…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — At least 16 people have died in floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka following more than a week of heavy rain. The disaster…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has hosted senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to…

By JOSH BOAK and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden is touting his $1 trillion infrastructure plan as an eventual…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Women — and some men — in Congress have been fighting for government…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An activist group says South Korea has rejected refugee status for four ethnic Chinese…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At least 13 former Trump administration officials violated the law by intermingling campaigning…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators have issued subpoenas to 10 more former…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating says a deal to acquire submarines powered…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Rudd has been crowned as 2021’s Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writers BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Never in its 50-year history has Starbucks relied on union…

By ANDREW DALTON and KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chris Stapleton won the most trophies, but Luke Combs won the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As vaccination rates rise in many parts of the world and even countries that previously had…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — U.S. food banks dealing with increased demand from families sidelined by the pandemic now face…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have concluded testimony at Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial after…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Legal experts say Kyle Rittenhouse held his own on the witness stand. Rittenhouse is…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s police chief says organizers of the Astroworld music festival haven’t provided…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese military forces are holding exercises near Taiwan in response to a visit by a U.S. congressional delegation to the island.…

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An autistic Cambodian teenager has been released from prison after…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Making coronavirus vaccines more accessible and reducing carbon emissions were two…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran is now free in open waters. The…

By MARCELA ISAZA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The creator of the Netflix TV series “Squid Game” says it’ll be back for a season…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s prime-time lineup tends to make the most noise and attract the most…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fumio Kishida is set to be reelected as Japan’s prime minister after clearing the first major…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has ruled that a police officer cannot use his law…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Williams says he’s leaving NBC News at the end of the year. He remade his career as an…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant who admitted fatally shooting four people during a two-week rampage in…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The executive who took over as head of casino company Wynn Resorts when its founder and namesake Steve Wynn resigned in February…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has won his second acquittal on charges he tapped the phones of opponents and…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has sentenced two members of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party to…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company has been sentenced to 30…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego is suing scooter companies to get them to pay the city’s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the two-wheeled…

GENEVA (AP) — An auction buyer has acquired a pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette for $8.34 million. The bracelets…

MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s largest school district is dropping all mask mandates, allowing parents in all grades decide whether their children should…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elections officials announced Tuesday that a recall election against San Francisco District…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new Amnesty International report says Ethiopia’s rival Tigray forces raped or gang-raped…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general is dropping her bid for Arkansas governor and clearing…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. government has pledged to strengthen Haiti’s National Police as the country…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has launched a $738 million investment fund…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Live video coverage will be allowed in the trial of a former suburban Minneapolis police…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mexico’s president is warning that the world is sliding from “civilization to…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Colombian President Iván Duque has high hopes for the medical marijuana industry in a…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — A California parole panel has recommended for the fifth time that Charles Manson follower…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico says the two countries are negotiating to get Mexico to approve visas for agents of the U.S. Drug…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says more than half of Air Force and Space Force personnel who responded to a…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two more witnesses have testified that the only eyewitness to a 1978 triple murder in Kansas City told them that she…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will remove sensitive ad targeting options related to health,…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming says former President Donald Trump is at war…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A new map dividing Montana into two congressional districts for the first…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal agency is taking a step toward designating a new national marine sanctuary off the central California coast that would…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Now that eccentric real estate heir Robert Durst has been indicted for murder in the death of…

LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai has announced her marriage. The 24-year-old Pakistani human rights…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA won’t be putting astronauts back on the moon until at least 2025.…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press POLACCA, Ariz. (AP) — Members of a small northeastern Arizona tribe are voting Thursday for their next…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At least 13 former Trump administration officials violated the law by intermingling campaigning…