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By ED DAVEY The lush West African rainforests of Liberia are being cut down and illegally exported with the likely collusion of powerful government…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 17 migrants are dead after the bus they were traveling in crashed in central Mexico. All of the dead were migrants,…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s prime minister says the country needs to rebuild with more resilient infrastructure to cope with…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies are urging the U.N. Security Council to condemn North…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British luxury brand Burberry has unveiled its first catwalk show under new creative director Daniel…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order is taking new measures against a prominent Jesuit artist…

NEW YORK (AP) — Four Associated Press journalists have been honored with the George Polk Award for War Reporting for their searing coverage of…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Among Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A former owner of two NBA teams, an NFL franchise and longtime Texas businessman, Billy Joe “Red” McCombs has died…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a law to use zero-interest loans to help local governments repair or…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a man convicted of killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path five years ago…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited the Gulf nation of Oman on his first official visit since the deadly Feb. 6 quake.…

MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said in a speech posted online Monday that he has been removed as the…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, a top New Orleans session man, has died. Smith backed Little Richard…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter (52-foot)…

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president says the ex-Soviet nation will form a new territorial defense force amid the fighting in…

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Italy have discussed military support for Ukraine and voiced agreement that the European…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man arrested Monday in the weekend killing of a Catholic bishop…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies and family members of an opposition politician imprisoned in Russia say…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man has been charged with participating in a Memphis shooting that left one person dead and 10 others injured. According to…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has summoned Iran’s top diplomat in the U.K. after journalists based in the country were targeted for…