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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple and Google say they disagree with a Commerce Department report accusing them of…

Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced several new clean energy initiatives in her annual…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has made a donation to the Ukrainian army to settle a defamation case…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to ramp up capital spending by 33% in a…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Nearly four years ago, Austria’s populist far-right Freedom Party was ousted from the national…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German beer sales rose in 2022 after COVID-19 restrictions weighed on brewers in the previous two years.…

DETROIT (AP) — Police say three aspiring rappers who met in prison have been missing for 10 days after a Detroit gig suddenly was canceled because…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has ruled that a 14th century Korean Buddhist statue should be…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Visitors used to browse through Bakhmut’s late 19th century buildings, enjoy walks in its…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, CHRISTINA MALKIA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo’s people…

Hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne announced the cancellation of his 2023 tour dates in the U.K. and continental Europe. Osbourne issued a statement…

By VADIM GHIRDA and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Wednesday upheld a second 30-day arrest of the…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck…

By SALAR SALIM Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Officials from northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region say that several rockets targeted…

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,”…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and put navy ships and missile systems on alert in response to nearby operations by 34…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at…

By ISABEL DEBRE and SAM McNEIL Associated Press KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank (AP) — Protesters streaming up the windswept hills east of Jerusalem…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors linked Alec Baldwin to an expansive list of alleged failures in firearms safety as…

By AARON MORRISON and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says China’s growing assertiveness and…

By JOE Mcdonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines on Thursday announced plans to expand…

By SARA BURNETT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the 2024 presidential election as…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A procedural vote Wednesday in the House showed unified Republican support in…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press Australia has announced targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against “individuals responsible for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has logged its biggest monthly trade deficit ever, at $12.7 billion in…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official. On Wednesday,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong banned CBD as a “dangerous drug” and imposed harsh penalties for its possession on…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former “Dances With Wolves”…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Organizers on Tuesday announced a lineup of more than 270 acts for New Orleans’ 40th annual French Quarter Festival,…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The new district attorney for California’s Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area says she’ll…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House voted along party lines Tuesday to move the state’s primary to…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday night after being taken into…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Longtime University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has been fired following an investigation into…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral Wednesday a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow of a California man fatally shot by police in a Los Angeles suburb last year has…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has upheld a temporary restraining order on…