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By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of three men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery has…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said a booster dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine “can be considered” in people aged 18 and…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita Republican who once was one of the Kansas Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers…

By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Monday’s military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A senior energy adviser to President Joe Biden urged Russia to supply more natural gas…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão has said that the government will accelerate its…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of more than two dozen American hostages and wrongful detainees held overseas are…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina native who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has accused Israel of carrying out an attack in the country’s south, without offering details. A war monitor said an…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has launched a digital currency which the Central Bank of Nigeria says is a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of scientists and ocean life advocates says a type of whale that is one of the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says diplomatic efforts to get Iran back to nuclear negotiations are…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Boston is planning to challenge the results of the 2020 Census. The city says the once-a-decade head count…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press President Joe Biden and the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians discussed ways to fight climate change,…

CHESTER, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say a U.S. Army soldier has been brought back to South Carolina from Germany to face charges he killed his…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional government has ordered an envoy of the 15-nation West African regional…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds. It is the second…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has extended tight coronavirus restrictions to more parts of the country as the latest surge of infections…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nine EU countries, including heavyweight Germany, have joined forces to say they will not…

LONDON (AP) — The British government is looking to give millions of low-pay workers an inflation-busting pay increase next year. The government…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government is seeking advice from a panel of experts on whether it needs to reintroduce COVID-19…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials say a target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — People in Estonia no longer can use negative test results to obtain the coronavirus certificates needed to attend…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach…

By JON GAMBRELL and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first 100 winners of an initiative to nurture talented teens worldwide have been named.…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW (AP) — A European Union official has said that there is “no place for rhetoric referring to war” among…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A political storm is brewing in Portugal, where the minority Socialist government is finding it hard to win support for its…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Police are investigating a bus explosion that killed one person in central Uganda. The…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A closely watched survey of German business optimism has sagged for the fourth month in a row. The lower reading Monday…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch climate experts are warning that the low-lying Netherlands could face higher…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says a judge has charged 68 people in this month’s deadly clashes in Beirut that left seven…

By AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA Associated Press TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Preliminary results from Uzbekistan’s presidential election show…

LONDON (AP) — Environmental protesters pressuring the British government to insulate all homes within a decade have resumed a road-blocking…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has expressed concern after China and Russia held a joint naval exercise in which 10 of their…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say that two soldiers were lightly hurt when a group of some 60 migrants tried to force their way across…

By ISABEL DEBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Across the Middle East, journalists, activists and others have…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s plans to advance the construction of thousands of new settlement homes in the…

By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press GUILFORD, Conn. (AP) — In school board races around the country, activists are running against critical race…

PRAGUE (AP) — Taiwanese government ministers are visiting the Czech capital accompanied by dozens of business and research representatives to boost…

MADRID (AP) — Officials say a volcano erupting for the past five weeks on the Spanish island of La Palma is more active than ever. New lava flows…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Paying bills late can be an early symptom of dementia — and it can happen years before diagnosis. If you have a family…

By JON GAMBRELL and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook the company is losing control of Facebook the product — and of the carefully crafted image it’s…

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed a strong tornado hit the southeastern Missouri city of Fredericktown as strong…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with Taliban representatives during a trip this week to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Merck has asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize its COVID-19 antiviral treatment. In a statement…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leader of Greece’s third-largest political party, Fofi Gennimata, has died after…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — People in Tokyo can eat and drink in bars and restaurants later in the evening starting Monday as…

By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A sheriff in Texas says the skeletal remains of a child were found inside an apartment in the…

BERLIN (AP) — A German convert to Islam has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the extremist Islamic State group…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stepped back from a threat to expel the ambassadors of…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawmakers in Cambodia have approved an amendment to the constitution barring…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers Amid fallout from the Facebook Papers showing its failure to address the harms its social…

By SYLVIE CORBET and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong this year, becoming the latest…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A rabble-rousing television pundit and author with repeated convictions for hate speech is rocking…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged Southeast Asian countries to speed up plans to create a regional travel…

By JO KEARNEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) — A proposal to dig a new coal mine in northern England is presenting a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party has split two parliamentary seats in byelections seen as a major test of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher after another rally to record highs on Wall Street. Benchmarks in…

By MORGAN LEE, CEDAR ATTANASIO and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that…

BEIJING (AP) — State media report that a laboratory explosion at a university in eastern China has killed two people and injured nine. State…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The lone Republican moderate at a U.S. Senate candidate forum in Ohio says that at…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian telco Telstra has partnered with the Australian government in a $1.6 billion…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it’s testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars as it works toward using…