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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s central bank governor says he asked an auditing firm to look into transactions and investments and that contrary to media…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A pro-military minister in Sudan says time is running out for the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is acquiring a new drilling ship to search for natural gas in the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — India’s startup Akasa Air has announced it’s choosing CFM International’s LEAP-1B turbofan engines to…

By KIYOKO METZLER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says it believes Iran has further increased its…

Thousands of Sikh pilgrims have arrived in Pakistan for an annual commemoration of the birth of their religion’s founder, officials said on…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials say groups of migrants who were camped in the cold on the Poland-Belarus…

LONDON (AP) — British police say the suspect who was killed in a Liverpool taxi explosion spent at least six months buying components for a bomb…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Filipino activists who were jailed and tortured during late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military court has handed down a reduced sentence to a Spanish woman who admitted to…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s number of daily COVID-19 deaths and new officially recorded cases have reached highs not seen since a…

LONDON (AP) — Amazon says it will stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom because of a dispute over fees. The e-commerce…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s executive body says same-sex couples will be able to get married in the rich Alpine nation starting on July 1 next…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United Kingdom surged at the fastest rate in nearly a decade in October amid…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — About 20,000 people have marched peacefully through Athens to mark the anniversary of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising in…

BERLIN (AP) — A pig farm in northern Germany is culling all of its animals after a case of African swine fever was confirmed there this week. The…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and Slovakia have reported record daily numbers of new coronavirus cases. The…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Dozens of relatives of two civilians killed in a gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir are…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency has reported 52,826 new coronavirus cases as infection rates…

MILAN (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says 10 people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A far-right TV pundit who is expected to run for the French presidency is going on trial for…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press FADA N’GOURMA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group is ravaging…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NAIROBI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his first official visit to Africa with an…

MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry says seven Azerbaijani service members were killed and 10 more were wounded in clashes with Armenia…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in New Delhi have closed schools indefinitely and shut some…

BEIJING (AP) — The head of the women’s professional tennis tour is questioning the legitimacy of a retraction Chinese state media says was from a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have mostly declined after indexes shuffled lower on Wall Street. Benchmarks fell in…

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe is short of gas. Russia could in theory supply more…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The head of Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission that failed to…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry had 37 points, easily winning matchup of the NBA’s top two scorers when Kevin…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tim Weah’s 11th-minute goal was matched by Michail Antonio’s spectacular 34-yard…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles will be renamed Crypto.com Arena on Christmas. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katharine Tai and Japan’s trade minister have agreed to work to…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Sudanese asylum-seekers in Israel fear last year’s normalization agreement between their…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Energy companies have offered a combined $192 million for drilling…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has executed a man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and…

SUMAS, Wash. (AP) — In a story published November 17, 2021, about flooding in the Pacific Northwest, The Associated Press misidentified the mayor…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Officials have released the inmate who was central to a Supreme Court case that…

By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders are pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big domestic…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S. was stabbed in the…

By AAMER MADHANI and TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his big new…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, doesn’t try to explain why…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the cryptocurrency world, which gets likened to the Wild West of financial markets, one of the…

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys have asked the judge to declare a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — More than a decade after a methane explosion killed 29 workers at a New Zealand coal…

By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) — There is a ray of hope for the vanishing orange-and-black…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Maria Ressa says much still remains uncertain about her life one month after her…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a plan to protect and promote…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge in Las Vegas has begun a series of hearings about the constitutionality of the…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state-run media says Israel has carried out an attack on the country’s south with two missiles targeting an…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police are asking the public for help in finding two vehicles believed to have been involved in a drive by shooting in a park…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) —  The Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 3,187 new cases of the coronavirus, nearly matching a one-day record set in September, a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Over 60 governments and 50 U.N. agencies and organizations have joined forces to press…

BEIJING (AP) — China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight easing of tensions between the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles couple who were convicted of trying to steal $20 million in COVID-19 relief funds have been sentenced to federal…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. immigration judge in California says an Iraqi refugee initially accused of…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Mark McCloskey, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, has been photographed…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The upcoming verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial for shooting three men during street unrest in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi state auditor says retired NFL player Brett Favre has missed a…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Ohio man sent to prison for driving his car into a crowd of counterprotestors during a white nationalist rally in Virginia…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter says she will quit the real estate appraiser…

SIGOURNEY, Iowa (AP) — A 32-year-old Iowa man has been found guilty in the death of a Black man whose body was found burning in a ditch last year.…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden last month announced a deal to operate the Port of Los Angeles around…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miramax is suing director Quentin Tarantino over the director’s plans to create and…

By WILL WEISSERT and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Richardson’s success in helping secure the release of journalist Danny…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he made clear to China’s Xi Jinping that his administration stands…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress Tuesday that she believed she would run…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge says a Las Vegas man’s admission that he voted twice in November 2020 in a case…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s choice to lead enforcement of competition laws at the Justice…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders are pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big domestic…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A severe drought prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ask people to voluntarily cut…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press An attorney who advised former President Donald Trump in his fight to overturn the 2020 election is joining an…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators have proposed suspending a Trump administration rule that would have allowed…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer A federal judge says a dispute over a Canadian oil pipeline that runs through a section of the Great Lakes…

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Wildfires pushed by strong winds have forced evacuations of homes in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and led to a death in Wyoming.…

By JIM MORRIS and ROB GILLIES Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The body of a woman has been recovered from a mudslide caused by…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Hospitals in Michigan and Minnesota are reporting a wave of COVID-19 patients not seen in months. Beds are filling with…