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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer Back at the very beginning, right when the idea of water polo in Ghana started swimming into reality, Prince Asante got…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, CHRISTINA MALKIA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis led Congo’s young people in a…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit residential areas in an eastern Ukrainian city Thursday for the second…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a suicide bomber who killed 101 people in the northwestern city of…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press Hong Kong (AP) — Hong Kong will give away air tickets and vouchers to woo tourists back. The international…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s attorney general says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must not be involved…

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer…

VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to United Nations…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has formally blamed Israel for a drone attack that targeted a military…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises called off its $2.5 billion share…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised interest rates by half a percentage point as it sought to tame…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press London (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States has opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands in its latest move to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in rural southwest Oregon were on high alert: A man with a history of kidnapping and…

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — A furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town has predicted six more weeks of winter during an annual Groundhog Day…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested a prominent political ally of a former prime…

By JIM GOMEZ and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says it is allowing U.S. forces to broaden their…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has appointed a company veteran as its president to lead the Japanese electronics and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect…