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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — For many Iraqis, the name Colin Powell conjures up one image: the man who as…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s capital has returned to the lowest level on its COVID-19 pandemic warning system for the first time since June. In…

HELSINKI (AP) — The Chinese-controlled Swedish car maker Volvo Cars will make a return as a listed company after a hiatus of more than two decades…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s regional Metro system abruptly pulled more than half its fleet of trains from…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON, MARC LEVY and JILL COLVIN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census. They claim they were shortchanged because the…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Roughly 65% of Chicago Police Department employees have complied with a requirement…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Soul Train” and New York City’s Apollo Theater are icons of Black culture, and this year they’ll be joining up.…

By MATT OTT and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon,…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Bulldogs…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high…

CAMPTON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a 4-year-old boy who fell off a 70-foot cliff at Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky suffered a few scratches and…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A Czech official says health problems are preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Frans Timmerman, the European commissioner for climate action, is urging that all…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed an agreement to continue American support for Georgia’s military for…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has reimposed coronavirus restrictions in the hardest-hit parts of the country amid the latest surge of…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer COVID-19 booster shots are an extra dose of the original vaccine, and some experts wonder why they…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has ordered a halt to routine medical care at state clinics in order to devote more resources to coronavirus patients.…

The Ford Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, announced Monday that it will divest millions from fossil fuels,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case.…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — An insurer is suing the operator of a coastal Georgia warehouse where 50,000 tons of biofuel wood pellets went up in smoke…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British Museum says it will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines has started…

CAIRO (AP) — The trials of three Egyptian activists and a rights lawyer, who have been held in prison for over two years on a number of charges,…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say law enforcers backed by troops have killed four suspected Chinese drug dealers who opened fire at…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France says its ambassador to Belarus has been ordered out of the country. In a statement Monday,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A provincial minister says a roadside bomb exploded near a police bus parked outside a university in southwest Pakistan. It…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president is criticizing the violent protests that have erupted against Italy’s new…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s center-left forces have won big in Rome and most other significant mayoral…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq says it has detained the mastermind behind a deadly 2016 bombing in a Baghdad shopping…

GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Officials at Grambling State University have blamed “outsiders” for a recent spate of violence on campus, including a…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has set a new goal for fighting climate change over the next decade, saying it will aim to cut its greenhouse…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dualtone Records is marking the birthday of Chuck Berry by announcing the release of a live…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A heavily redacted report has been released by a Florida sheriff into the disappearance of a college student who was later…

By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators are investigating fuel pump failures in more than 600,000 diesel Ram trucks that could cause the engines to…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business Writers Sinclair Broadcast Group said Monday that it’s suffered a data breach and is still…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials are predicting more rain as the death toll from floods and landslides in the…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it’s suspending its mission at NATO and ordering the closure of the alliance’s…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses say Ethiopian military airstrikes have hit the capital of the country’s Tigray…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Heavy rains in central and northeastern Thailand have caused new flooding, with…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Some 300 male and female volunteers have stripped naked and donned white body paint for an artistic installation near the Dead…

By ALON BERNSTEIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Sweden’s foreign minister is visiting Israel in an effort to mend ties after years in which…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Protests in Bangladesh’s capital are being held to denounce a wave of violence against…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government says other Southeast Asian countries should…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The powerful chief editor of Germany’s best-selling newspaper Bild has been relieved of his…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Global automakers are stepping up the pace when it comes to building factories to prepare for what…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A former Syrian lawmaker allegedly shot by Israeli sniper fire has been laid to rest…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is calling for increases in Japan’s military capability and spending…

By Liz Weston of NerdWallet Supply chain disruptions could make purchasing longed-for toys a lot more difficult this year. This isn’t just a…

BEIJING (AP) — China says its launch of a new spacecraft was merely a test to see whether the vehicle could be re-used. A Foreign Ministry…

By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Azerbaijan’s deputy foreign minister has accused Armenia of “ethnic cleansing”…

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran tiger has been found dead after being caught in a trap on Indonesia’s Sumatra island…

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union foreign ministers are considering ways to stop illegal flows of migrants into the 27-nation bloc from neighboring…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s total number of coronavirus infections has topped 8 million and its daily infection toll…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Twelve pianists from around the world have been admitted to the final stage of the 18th edition of the prestigious Frederic…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA. Greece (AP) — Three activists protesting human rights abuses in…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it now has exported over 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of…

LONDON (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to spend up to 230 million pounds to turn a transmission factory in northwest England into a plant that will…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An international police operation has seized 5.2 metric tons (5.73 short tons) of cocaine with a street value of around 200…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s government says it will require public servants to have a vaccination certificate or show…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has led a somber British Parliament in honoring the Conservative…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Preliminary results show that center-right opposition parties have dominated in Kosovo’s municipal elections but more…

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones for Apple Inc. and other global brands…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The trial has opened of two men charged with murder in the killing of Dutch crime…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has begun its legal challenge to a judge’s landmark decision…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The foreign ministers of Malaysia and Indonesia are concerned that Australia’s plan…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as investors wait for more U.S. corporate…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WOJSLAWICE, Poland (AP) — During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, the Germans imprisoned Jews…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A college basketball player hatched the idea after seeing a discrimination case nearly implode his own team, then…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer It started in 1946 with 11 teams and 160 players. The shot clock was nearly a decade away, the 3-point line was…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s state-owned oil company says a fire has erupted at a major oil refinery and left some workers…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban win in Afghanistan is giving a boost to militants in neighboring Pakistan.…

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) — Betty Lynn, who was best known as Barney Fife’s sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died at…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Queensland state plans to open to vaccinated travelers, ending the status…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in Georgia, where hundreds of people were ordered to report for what…