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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawyers for Myanmar’s former President Win Myint say he has testified that he defied a demand from…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is coming to Richmond this month to campaign with fellow…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunger and food insecurity across the United States have dropped measurably over the past six…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg will step down as head of a three-party, minority center-right…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The custom suits BTS wore for their Grammy Awards performance earlier this year are among the items that…

By BARRY HATTON and ALICIA LEÓN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has once again marked its national day with pomp, pageantry and a military…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — At least 28 people have died in western Nepal after the bus they were on skidded off a mountain road and fell hundreds of…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says at least 15 migrants are dead after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya’s shores.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing cuts in catches of cod and herring in the Baltic Sea to make sure both threatened stock and the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 24,000 nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly…

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Sexual assault charges have been dropped against a Texas woman who, as a child, had been rescued from a closet after suffering…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is slightly downgrading its outlook for the global…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Pamela has weakened to a tropical storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast. But forecasters say it is expected to regain…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a 5-year, 30 billion-euro ($35 billion) investment…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet for the first time with President Vladimir Putin in Russia later this…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean soldier clad in a super-tight blue outfit in a state…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — European Union leaders have vowed to uphold Ukraine’s energy security and have signed…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their…

PARIS (AP) — The British official who will preside over an upcoming U.N. climate summit says he’s losing sleep over how to get long-promised…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Researchers at one of Switzerland’s leading universities are releasing open-source…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — In what is becoming a common occurance, Russia has hit another record of daily coronavirus…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is calling on the United Nations Security Council…

BERLIN (AP) — An 8-year-old German girl who was lost for two days in a forested area along the German-Czech border has been found alive. Her…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A key pre-trial hearing has opened for an alleged Central African Republic rebel…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake has jolted the Greek island of Crete three weeks after another…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. parliamentary report says Britain’s Conservative government waited too long to impose a…

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says the judge leading the investigation into…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Six women and nine children abducted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist rebels in the…

PARIS (AP) — A train has hit and killed three people and seriously injured another person in southwestern France. The mayor of a town near the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who last year published his best-selling memoir, “The…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Government forces have killed five suspected militants in two clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a day after rebels…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Job vacancies in the U.K. have risen to a record high of nearly 1.2 million. That’s a further…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is pledging $230 million to establish a fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of climate lawyers is calling on the International Criminal Court to launch…

By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Britain are back to quarreling less than a year after…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are in power in Afghanistan but a new enemy is ascending in the country: the…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press LAFITTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana task force is working to gather vaults and caskets disrupted from their burial…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has kicked off a massive, two-day air defense drill in the country’s sprawling central desert in another show of force…

SOLVANG, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders have been expanded for a growing wildfire driven by intense winds that has shut down a key Southern…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck to more than seven years…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mixed in Asia after an up-and-down day on Wall Street ended with most benchmarks lower as traders…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has expressed “full…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House have approved a short-term hike to the nation’s debt limit. The vote…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SANTEE, Calif. (AP) — Before a twin-engine plane nose-dived into a San Diego suburb, an increasingly concerned air…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Widely available marijuana once drew thousands of hippies to Nepal, where its use…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A group studying the economics of offshore wind energy in the U.S. says building and…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer The performer who breathed life into Captain James T. Kirk is, at age 90, heading toward the stars under…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer The performer who breathed life into Captain James T. Kirk is, at age 90, heading toward the stars under…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Finding the cause of a major oil spill off Southern California, who is to blame and if they…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is again urging courts to step in and suspend a new Texas law that…

A state district judge says a Jewish death row inmate who was part of the so-called “Texas 7” gang should get a new capital murder trial because…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reviewed missiles developed to launch nuclear…

MIAMI (AP) — Miami officials have decided to fire the city’s new police chief six months into his stormy tenure, after he was lambasted by the…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Jon Gruden is out as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails he sent before being hired in 2018 contained…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say suspected drug cartel gunmen opened fire on a car, killing a 3-year-old boy and wounding the…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A top Netflix executive says Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer” doesn’t cross…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Indigenous people marked Monday with celebrations of their heritage, education…

PHOENIX (AP) — A metro Phoenix sheriff’s deputy who authorities say was attacked by a man he had arrested has died. Maricopa County Sheriff Paul…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday to prohibit any entity, including…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — All good things must come to an end and Matt Amodio’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” did…

GEISMAR, La. (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he and two siblings started a fire in a play fort made from a set of concrete steps…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has made punishing corruption the centerpiece of his political agenda. So when the country’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. parliamentary report has concluded that Britain’s Conservative government waited too…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Billionaire Richard Branson says it was an honor and a once-in-a-lifetime experience to don a drum major’s uniform and…