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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese judge has summoned North Korea’s leader to face demands for compensation by several…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent lawyer who represented both a former Russian journalist accused of treason and the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tigray forces in Ethiopia say at least 150 people starved to death last month in the Tigray…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has opened a public inquiry into plans for the country’s first new deep coal mine in…

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s junior coalition partner USR-Plus has resigned from government following a week of political…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The audiobook narrator for a new political thriller co-written by Hillary Clinton and Louise…

By ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches,…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting at a downtown nightclub in Wichita, Kansas. Police…

Environmental activists  protesting car culture have disrupted traffic on several highways around Munich ahead of the opening of a leading auto show…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is looking to issue up to 250 billion euros in green bonds this fall as part of its plans to finance the…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet With fewer pandemic-related restrictions this year, the option to do more can result in the urge to spend.…

By VISAR KRYEZIU Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovar activists have tried to disrupt a meeting of war crimes court officials with…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon has slammed into the eastern Philippines, bringing high winds that caused power outages in several…

By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Many hoped that Guinea’s landmark 2010 election would finally give the West African…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Movies from 77 countries will screen at the 2021 London Film Festival, as Britain’s leading cinema…

By ANDREW WILKS ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey is to taking steps to normalize ties with…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union wants Europe’s top court to impose daily fines on Poland for failing to take…

HONG KONG (AP) — A pro-democracy group says the Hong Kong government is arbitrarily labeling it a foreign agent, making it subject to prosecution…

MADRID (AP) — Wildfires suspected to be purposefully caused by people have burned nearly 1,000 hectares of forest in northwestern Spain over two…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The Czech Republic has pledged 530,000 euros to Lithuania to secure its border with Belarus in the wake of thousands of…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups has called for a pivotal climate conference to be postponed amid…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities have arrested two women from Sweden suspected of committing war crimes in Syria. It’s the first such…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a tax increase to pay for the rocketing cost of…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — In Paul Schrader’s new film “The Card Counter,” which premiered last week at the…

By TARIK EL BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Politicians from dozens of political parties were campaigning for a final day Tuesday,…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 214 serving and former military personnel over alleged ties to a 2016 coup…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand corrections officers say that during the time an Islamic State-inspired…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese prosecutors have dropped a case against a former Alibaba manager accused of sexual assault by a female colleague, weeks…

By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Islamic State group’s 2015 attacks on Paris…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German industrial production increased in July after three consecutive months of declines that have…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has sentenced to four years in prison a former top government official for taking…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The southern Indian state of Kerala is ramping up efforts to stop a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, even as the…

By LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Survivors of Islamic State group’s 2015 attack on Paris and those who…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s military says it has launched airstrikes on what it said was a Hamas…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who spent three nights lost in rugged Australian woodland is home…

By MARIAM FAM, DEEPTI HAJELA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim Americans who grew up under the shadow of 9/11 have…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The main underground group coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military rulers has called for a…

HONG KONG (AP) — Travelers arriving in Hong Kong from mainland China will no longer need to quarantine. The semi-autonomous city’s top official…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s import and export growth accelerated in August despite disruptions due to the spread of…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A huge California wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region is about half contained. The head of the state’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has gone back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English…

By MATTHEW DALY and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads…

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Surveying storm damage, President Joe Biden has declared climate change…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand has penned a memoir out Tuesday that offers a view from…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have broken through police roadblocks that sought to prevent access to the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Court testimony shows that the Minnesota State Patrol purged emails and text messages immediately after protests over the death…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar notorious for his anti-Muslim remarks has been freed from…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANDREW DALTON NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michael K. Williams, who played the beloved character Omar Little on “The Wire,”…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two critical jobless benefit programs have expired, leaving only a handful of economic options for…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean health authorities have approved the use of Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus for 6-year-old children and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party.…