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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The first time George Mitchell came to Belfast, it was a war-scarred city of bomb…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Irish climber has died and an Indian is missing after falling into a crevasse in two separate incidents on Mount…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have adopted on Tuesday key pieces of a package designed to achieve the EU’s climate goals of cutting…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China denied all accusations of an overseas police presence, saying Tuesday that the United…

BEIJING (AP) — Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency to…

BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists say that they will stage further protests in Berlin in an effort to force the German government into doing more to…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer A snooker table vandalized by a climate activist during a match at the world championship was reclothed overnight…

By KAY DERVISHI and YESICA BALDERRAMA of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The share of Americans who volunteer their time to…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Over the last 20 years, fewer and fewer people in the U.S. have donated their time through volunteering with…

By DAVID BAUDER, RANDALL CHASE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he’s optimistic that one of…

LONDON (AP) — Scotland police say the treasurer of the Scottish National Party has been arrested in a party finance probe. Colin Beattie, a member…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Syria’s chief diplomat is a three-day official visit to Tunisia meant to restore diplomatic relations that have been cut…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it’s ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military chief has dismissed a separatist group claim that they had…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States…

BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat is expected to arrive in the Syrian capital, the first official visit by an official from the kingdom…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The reclusive top leader of the Taliban has released a message lauding the changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover and…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — J-Hope, a member of K-pop sensation BTS, entered a South Korean boot camp Tuesday to…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Andrew Liveris has spent a year putting in the groundwork to make the Brisbane Olympics a…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Michelle Yeoh says she is looking for new challenges including as a producer, as she credited perseverance, hard work…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president has reiterated threats against Israel while marking the country’s annual…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis have ground to a halt for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust…

By The Associated Press A Russian judge ruled Tuesday that American journalist Evan Gershkovich must remain behind bars on espionage charges in a…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Assia Gorban was 7 years old when the Germans occupied her hometown of Mogilev-Podolsky in…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a massive landslide triggered by lightning amid rain has struck a key highway…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press QALANDIYA CHECKPOINT, West Bank (AP) — For many Palestinians, the journey to one of Islam’s most sacred…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday, as investors took a wait-and-see attitude ahead of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Police say a suspected shooting attack by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem wounded two Israeli men. Tuesday’s shooting was…

By ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in…

By KATHY McCORMACK and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — Bakery owner Sean Young was thrilled when high school art students…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. But Runa at the San Diego…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is set to testify before an Ohio Senate…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before ballots are tallied and reliable polls are conducted, one of…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices seemed in broad agreement that businesses can’t cite minor costs or…

By FOSTER KLUG, MATTHEW LEE and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press KARUIZAWA, Japan (AP) — Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed to intensify…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A transgender female player has been blocked from joining the second-tier of Australia’s women’s national…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter as consumer flocked back to shops and restaurants following the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — An outside investigation determined that the head of the Organization of American States showed…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the…

By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India VYPIN ISLAND, India (AP) — On the receding shorelines of low-lying Vypin Island off India’s western coast,…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s crown prince has said its parliament again will be dissolved and new elections planned for the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are pushing to adjourn by the end of the week…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley councilmember delayed entering his pleas Monday on criminal charges for…

HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — A woman looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Navy said Monday it is using ships and a plane to search for three Americans who went missing along with their…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a second teenager has been charged with kidnapping several migrants and allegedly…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ efforts to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California have arrested more than a dozen people they say are…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A health provider has dropped a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Unionized film and television writers have voted overwhelmingly to give their leaders the authority to call a strike if…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, people wounded during street battles flowed into the wards. Supplies…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos has announced that he’s running for reelection. The New York Republican has faced criticism and ridicule…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, by eight officers last summer sparked protests…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper on trial in a multimillion-dollar campaign finance and foreign influence…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media…

SANDWICH ACADEMY GRANT TOWNSHIP, Maine (AP) — Officials say a rail line where three locomotives and six train cars derailed over the weekend has…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema reported raising just over $2 million in her first full…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The 45-year-old man on trial for kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son in early 2019…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — About 40 workers at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded have announced…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tribal colleges and universities around the U.S. will be able to tap nearly $15…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Air National Guardsman has been arrested after federal agents say he…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, the wife of Japan’s prime minister, have…