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By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and RENATA BRITO Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tensions have spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city after three…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday announced the expelling of nine Finnish diplomats and shutting down Finland’s consulate in…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in May but remained at levels high enough to show the American…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet So-called alternative credit cards from financial technology companies can offer you the opportunity to build…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station is taking a major step toward…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The courts are finally dry at Wimbledon and the sun is even shining through the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BOKSBURG, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a toxic gas leak in South Africa blamed on an…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week, but remains at healthy levels despite the…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has acquitted a border police officer who was charged with reckless…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A missing 2-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared during an attack on her mother was found dead nearly 100 miles (161…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have packed the town hall square in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona to celebrate the…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A girl was killed Thursday when an SUV crashed into an elementary school on a very narrow road in the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested another person accused of supporting overseas activists who…

LONDON (AP) — The head of global energy giant Shell says it would be “irresponsible” to cut oil and gas production at a time when the world…

YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The minister charged with an overhaul of this nation’s digitized system to assign a number to all…

BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have failed to agree on new rules regulating assisted suicide. They voted Thursday to reject two proposals drawn…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan ahead of…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Turkish man has been found guilty of attempted aggravated extortion, weapons possession and attempted terrorist financing,…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish migrant rights group says 951 migrants have died while trying to reach Spain by sea in…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The president of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks urged the oil and gas industry Thursday to reach net…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to tell Chinese officials that Washington wants healthy…

By ANNA FRANTS Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A human rights advocacy group says it found allegations of dozens of labor and…

BEIJING (AP) — The leader of the Solomon Islands will visit China next week, highlighting the accelerating contest between Beijing and Washington…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli forces have shelled a southern Lebanese border village after several…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has celebrated his 88th birthday among hundreds of supporters and exiled…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Five years after her death, the final wishes of music superstar Aretha Franklin are still…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s center-left government has distanced itself from the postponement of…

BEIJING (AP) — China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures. The…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Thursday passed an amendment to a law to eliminate most directly elected…

By JADE LE DELEY and LORI HINNANT Associated Press CRETEIL, France (AP) — At 19, he was the oldest of the group of teens accused of lobbing Molotov…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares slipped Friday after another decline on Wall Street, where hopes for an end to…

BEIJING (AP) — Employers in Beijing have been ordered to stop outdoor work after scorching summer heat in the Chinese capital was forecast to reach…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Sweltering heat is blanketing much of the planet, and the past seven days have been…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired cruise missiles Thursday at a western Ukraine city far from the front line…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the aging men known by their serial…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to beating their high school…

By AAMER MADHANI and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to South Carolina on Thursday to make the case…

By MORGAN LEE and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Family members of the 23 people killed in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Police say five people have been injured in a shooting at a Fort Lauderdale apartment complex. Police Chief Patrick…

TORONTO (AP) — Police say a woman found dead in eastern Ontario 48 years ago has been identified as a Tennessee spa owner who disappeared on a trip…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to U.S.…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Mike Pence says Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis do not grasp the broader implications of…

HONOLULU (AP) — Police say a 20-year-old man has died after setting off fireworks in Hawaii on the Fourth of July holiday. Police and firefighters…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has disclosed some of the previously blacked-out portions of a warrant…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The combat boots and dog tags that Alan Alda wore when he portrayed the wisecracking surgeon…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says a bystander’s cellphone footage showing a deputy…