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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…