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BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Palestinian man from Syria of a war crime and murder for launching a grenade into a crowd of civilians…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Seuss fans might find their hearts growing three sizes this coming holiday season with the release…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell last week as the labor market remains resilient in the face of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in Europe. The park says it…

By JOHN SEEWER, MICHAEL RUBINKAM and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The crew operating a freight train that derailed…

RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation at the request of the attorney for a man who was arrested in North Carolina…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate from October through December, a solid…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials say Beirut’s pubic prosecutor has charged the governor of the…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the Gulf Arab state of Oman has decided to allow Israeli planes to fly through its…

By DAVID FISCHER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press A man riding in a car with his cousin shot and killed another passenger then returned to the…

By The Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the smoking ruins, a lone dog pads in the snow, surely unaware — or perhaps too hungry to…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zendaya, Jason Bateman, Jeff Bridges and Aubrey Plaza will be some of the presenters at Sunday’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has resumed its policy of lowering a key interest rate, even as the country grapples with high…

CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) — Police say kidnappers have released a woman who was held for several days in a remote part of Papua New Guinea and…

VIENNA (AP) — A meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s parliamentary assembly has gotten underway without…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency is setting up a new center to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The European Commission has dampened Bulgaria’s aspirations for a swift adoption of the euro currency as the Balkan…

By SAM MEDNICK and ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, has been…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A British court has ruled a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has raised the number of fatalities in Turkey from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake to 43,556.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Voters in Nigeria are electing a new leader Saturday, with 18 candidates vying to lead a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As Nigeria prepares for its presidential election this weekend, younger voters are…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — How do people raised with a sense of right and wrong end up involved in terrible acts of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is directly acknowledging an accusation attributed to international…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A senior Northern Ireland police officer is in critical but stable condition in a hospital after…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of an eastern Greek island for four…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Ahmed Qureia, a former Palestinian prime minister and one of the architects of interim peace deals with Israel, has died…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. will push for tougher, better enforced…

By RIAZ KHAN and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has shut down a key border crossing with Afghanistan, just hours…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi’s state gas company expects to raise up to $2 billion by selling 4% of its shares in an initial…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than a year, killing dozens of…

By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday,…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s president has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge has ruled there is enough evidence for a trial against the person accused…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska has given a video tour of human rights violations…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in Asia were mixed Friday after Wall Street broke its longest losing streak since…

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers dug through tons of earth and rubble Thursday for…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats recently celebrated the 100th judicial confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidency and…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, disinformation and propaganda have emerged as key…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Thursday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 more years in prison…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri attorney general called Wednesday for the resignation of St. Louis’ elected…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian national carrier Qantas has posted an underlying pre-tax half-year profit of 1.43 billion Australian dollars ($978…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The Biden administration said Wednesday it is considering the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind energy…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has expressed deep sorrow for the suffering of people in conflicts…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has unveiled legislation that would clarify and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday approved a reform of the country’s electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are having their first public hearing on a proposal to penalize some…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine mayor says a search team has reached the crash site on a restive volcano of a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death 35 years ago of an…

BEIJING (AP) — A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook a lightly populated, remote part of Tajikistan early Thursday near China’s far western Xinjiang…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Charges are mounting against a “Dances With Wolves” actor who is accused of sexually abusing and…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press A central Florida television journalist and a little girl were fatally shot Wednesday afternoon near the scene of a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Texas man who threatened U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter after he stormed the U.S. Capitol…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon’s latest legal trouble: a lawsuit alleging he stiffed his former lawyers out of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The many faces and inspirations of David Bowie are getting a permanent home in London. Britain’s…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker with a history of incendiary remarks has been censured by the state…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company says is a test run of a potential…