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CHICAGO (AP) — Three firefighters were injured, one critically, while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side on…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge orders that a Moroccan man held for killing a church officer in January in the southern city of Algeciras be examined…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion…

By LIZZIE KNIGHT Associated Press Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department says it has tentatively settled a lawsuit over the 2017 mass shooting…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has…

DETROIT (AP) — An electric Ram pickup truck with up to 500 miles of range per charge is among the new vehicles being introduced Wednesday at the…

By DAVID BILLER and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman has defended Berlin’s record on delivering arms to Ukraine after the vice chancellor…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina announced Wednesday…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA member federations have been given a historic chance to vote for female candidates against male opposition for the…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Foreign Ministry official says Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and…

TOKYO (AP) — The International Tennis Federation will play tournaments this year in China. This takes place despite no known resolution to the case…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials say more than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Pres TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have arrested two men who posted a video on social media showing one eating pickled…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An opposition politician who ran against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the controversial 2020…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a…

BEIJING (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “engage China toward a shared responsibility for peace” in Ukraine when he…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been canceled because the sport’s governing body decided last month to let Russians…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized Wednesday in intensive care because of a…

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOSH BOAK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is pressing its case for a new approach to global…

By ADIL KHAN Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Veterinarians said they performed a critical procedure to save a sick elephant at a zoo in…

By COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A judge has ruled that the Dutch government cannot order Amsterdam’s Schiphol…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A top Bosnian government official and two others have been convicted and given prison sentences over the…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Congressman Jim Clyburn is backing a former staffer in her effort to lead South Carolina’s…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says soccer bodies and clubs should do more to tackle racist abuse of players. He says…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan…

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower Thursday as investors turned their attention to upcoming…

By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media says the husband of former Scottish first minister and Scottish…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials and media reports say a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board has sunk off…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service…

By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of UBS has voiced confidence that the Swiss bank will succeed in a…