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By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has accused the U.S. of abusing international law with its military maneuvers in the western…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated press BERLIN (AP) — At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish report says that adoptions of children from South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-controlled Myanmar has ordered the family home of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi,…

BEIJING (AP) — The bodies of the remaining victims of a landslide in southwestern China have been recovered, bringing the death toll to 44 after…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Several thousand university students and their supporters took part in a protest in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed jobless benefits last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels despite elevated…

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of Indians have flocked to a recruitment center in…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is returning to the critical swing state of Wisconsin to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The American founder of an orphanage in Haiti who had charges of sexual abuse against him dropped…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press NURPUR NOON, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani prime ministerial hopeful says the country must invest in climate…

Six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press on…

LONDON (AP) — A 32-year-old man who fatally stabbed two college students and a man months from retirement in the England city of Nottingham has…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man has been charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder for…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Idol normally takes advantage of riding his motorcycle on Super Bowl…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new pro-European Union government and conservative opposition disagree on whether two opposition politicians…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by another 2.5 percentage points. The move was the latest in a…

PARIS Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Moscow City Court has convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s top diplomat says his country has asked Russia to send back hundreds of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have pledged not to attack election rallies, saying their targets are…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The French president arrived in India on Thursday, where he is expected to meet with Prime…

PARIS (AP) — French police and protesters are preparing for a decision Thursday by France’s Constitutional Council on whether to approve a…

HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has reported a double-digit decline in sales and a fall in profit in the last three months of 2023. The wireless and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza. According to the latest…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech lawmakers have voted against ratifying an international treaty on women’s rights. Only 34 of the 71 Senators present in the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Apple has rolled out an update to its operating system this week with a feature called Stolen…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are bringing together school…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her,…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated at a Seoul hospital…

By The Associated Press Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine reportedly…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An official says one of the five children who were hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat along with…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — On Friday, the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu heads to the polls in an election that’s being…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress is reaffirming the…

TOKYO (AP) — Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for fours on an expressway…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-MAZRA’A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — The fatal shooting of an American-Palestinian teen driving a pickup…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has announced new rules meant to expand access to commercial bank…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom Thursday…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia’s colonial past have been damaged by protesters ahead of an increasingly…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A commission investigating a mass shooting that killed 18 people in Maine last year is…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Republican delegates are essentially locked in for Donald Trump…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank will likely keep interest rates unchanged Thursday. Its…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins. It sure seems to be…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-suffering California Republicans will see something on the March ballot that might…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected Thursday to report that the U.S. gross domestic product — the…

FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) — Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder and other crimes for carrying out the arson attack on an anime…

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say law enforcement officers have killed a man in a shootout while trying to arrest him on…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Residents have begun battening down homes and businesses with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily forecast to cross the Australian…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature is pushing forward a slate of…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice says it was no longer obligatory to place the paternal surname before the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s…

DENVER (AP) — A motorcyclist who authorities say posted a video of himself on YouTube speeding from Colorado Springs to the Denver metro area on…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise says suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its email…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it conducted its first flight test of a new cruise missile,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top court is declining to hear an appeal over former President Donald…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives have been found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican governor of South Carolina has had harsh words for labor…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In-N-Out Burger will close its only restaurant in Oakland, California, because of a wave of car break-ins, property damage,…

By JOE REEDY and ROB MAADDI and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh will be the head coach of the Los Angeles…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass increased investments in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Relatives of some of the more than 200 people killed in 2002 bombings on the resort…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Despite losing both Iowa and New Hampshire to Donald Trump,Nikki Haley is…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new estimate shows hearing loss affects approximately 37.9 million Americans and is more common…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with murder in the shooting of…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study published Wednesday…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors want to dismiss death penalty charges against a man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The board that oversees Florida’s 12 public universities has voted to ban using state or federal dollars for diversity…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say seven family members who were slain in a Chicago suburb were the mother, brother, three sisters, aunt and uncle…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is renewing demands for Texas to give Border Patrol access to a…