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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of suspects…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Prosecutors say a fatal roller coaster accident in Stockholm where some passengers plunged to the ground in June was caused by a…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a Virginia classroom is set to be…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced five nominees to federal judgeships, including the first…

PARIS (AP) — French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Used-car shoppers won’t have it easy this year or next. Although used car prices have declined from their record levels…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese authorities say that opposition leader and presidential hopeful Ousmane Sonko is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish road transport authorities are holding talks with their Ukrainian counterparts over competition grievances that have…

BERLIN (AP) — A German publishing house said it would stop selling books about Russian President Vladimir Putin by an award-winning journalist…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — More than 200 conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia’s capital, calling for the…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy has launched a bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S.…

By JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet “Buy now, pay later” payment plans are a popular financing option, especially around the holiday season. But these…

LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived at a London court for a hearing over a public order offense after she was arrested last…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s two main opposition parties, both of which have vowed to restart talks with China, are announcing a joint…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Venezuela’s vice president has vowed that her country will press ahead with a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A man who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Cabinet minister from Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has attended a trade meeting in Pakistan despite tensions over the…

By FARAI MUTSAKA By Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Police in Zimbabwe say a minibus taxi crashed head on with a truck, killing 22 people.…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press Ahead of the highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping,…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An entire Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border has reportedly surrendered to an…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union’s executive commission has lowered its growth forecast for this…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has annulled a government decision to repurpose 60 billion euros ($65 billion) originally earmarked to…

By JOSEPH WILSON and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will defend his controversial…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed and nearly two dozen injured when a passenger bus slid off a Himalayan highway and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the…

By AAMER MADHANI, COLLEEN LONG and DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping head into their big meeting…

LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. dropped sharply in October to its lowest level in two years largely because last year’s steep rise in…

BEIJING (AP) — China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares surged higher on Wednesday, cheered by a rally on Wall Street that was one of the…

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian defense ministers called for the fighting in Gaza to…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital early…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development will restart food aid deliveries across Ethiopia in December,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s highest court is set to rule on whether the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s digital spy agency says the nation’s cooperation with the United…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York’s highest court will hear arguments in a redistricting lawsuit that will shape congressional…

BEIJING (AP) — China has reported its economic growth showed more signs of rekindling in October as retail sales and factory output picked up even…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press Nearly nine out of 10 parents believe their child is performing at grade level despite standardized tests showing far…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba’s capital, Havana.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With just seven weeks until the end of the year, the Biden administration is running out of time…

By DANIEL POLITI and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Batman and the Joker, a man decked out in a full-body lion…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to agree Wednesday to…

BY SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s president is pushing ahead with an election on Thursday that could…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A new report has identified nearly 500 industrial fishing vessels where workers face hazardous,…

By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state of California operates a little-known program to lease land under…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Some of the 40 construction workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for a fourth…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council is trying for a fifth time to come…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Passenger numbers at Dubai International Airport this year will eclipse the…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The latest honor for Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy slipped into a contraction in the third quarter, decreasing at an annual pace of…

MEXICO (AP) — The company run by Mexican TV, retail and banking magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego says it has failed to reach agreement with…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eight high school students in Las Vegas between the ages of 13 and 17 were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are pushing new boundaries over immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border. A…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A 78-year-old woman has died from injuries suffered in the wildfire last August that…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are sending conflicting messages about the violent death of a leading…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday was summoned to federal court for the second time in two weeks to testify…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has successfully tested new solid-fuel engines designed for…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are digging into an outside accounting firm’s role in preparing…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGMERY, Ala. (AP) — The creation of a Democratic-leaning congressional district in Alabama has drawn a…

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who shared her Thanksgiving table seven years ago with a stranger she accidentally texted will be opening up her…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The State Board of Education is considering a universal definition of…

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Two people were killed and a third injured when a small plane crashed in the mountains south of Salt Lake City. The two…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A small wildfire on Maui is fully contained during a warning that gusty winds and low…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil…

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police corporal accused of shooting three photojournalists with rubber pellets while they covered protests against police…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Two women were arrested Tuesday for helping one of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month. Jacorshia Smith and…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their long anticipated…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage scrambled Tuesday to come up with more temporary housing for the homeless…

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas school district has apologized and reversed a decision that ousted a transgender student from a part in the musical…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man awaiting trial in the kidnapping of a 16-year-old western Michigan girl who was later killed has died from medical…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal judge has tentatively approved a portion of the newest plan to restructure $10 billion of debt owed by…

HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of 110 Black soldiers for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Offices belonging to top elections officials in Kansas were evacuated after suspicious mail was…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia district attorney who charged former President Donald Trump over his efforts to…

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Three women remain in critical condition a day after what officials say was a random knife attack on a college campus in north…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has convicted a Wisconsin woman of fatally poisoning her beautician friend’s water with eye drops five years…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his…