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BERLIN (AP) — The United Nationsis asking member states for a record $51.5 billion in aid funding for next year, as disasters and the ongoing war…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava…

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss authorities say they have been notified of 46.1 billion francs ($48.5 billion) in assets held by Russian nationals and entities…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Renewed allegations of racism at Buckingham Palace threatened to overshadow Prince William’s trip…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a major political conference before the…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain detonated a suspicious envelope discovered at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spanish…

Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran’s national soccer team has received a subdued welcome home with a few dozen fans greeting them at the…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police say they have seized around 500 kilograms (1,102 pounds) of narcotics in Stockholm, with a total street value of…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — More Chinese cities eased anti-virus restrictions and police patrolled their streets Thursday as…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a…

BEIJING (AP) — China says leader Xi Jinping has urged negotiations on a political solution to the Ukraine conflict in talks with visiting European…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sleep plunges the soldier back into the horrors of Ukraine’s battlefields. He can hear…

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Award-winning “Squid Game” actor Oh Young-soo will stand trial on charges of indecent…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares retreated in Asia on Friday after a mixed day on Wall Street as optimism over signs…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants during an arrest raid in the occupied West…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Midterm voters in Oregon narrowly passed one of the toughest gun control laws in the…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat on Saturday night. Showing…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Voters in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat are casting ballots in crucial local elections.…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are…

By COLLEEN LONG, SYVLIE CORBET and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged “glitches” in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig has decided to withdraw his agreement to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Voice of America says the Taliban have banned FM radio broadcasts from VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer He grinned, and — just eight years after the crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square — the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India officially takes up its role as chair of the Group of 20 leading economies for the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The trial of a Hong Kong newspaper publisher who was arrested in a crackdown on the city’s…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was a “predator” with unmistakable patterns who used his Hollywood…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Rose Bowl game organizers cleared the way for the College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Thursday’s state dinner for the president of France is meant to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are seeking a search warrant for the Reddit website as they try to identify the person who leaked a racist…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former elections manager who prosecutors say assisted in a security…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Journalists from an investigative news outlet in El Salvador have sued NSO Group in U.S. federal court after the…

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida backup quarterback Jalen Kitna, the son of retired NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, was…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A top European Union official warned Elon Musk on Wednesday that Twitter needs to beef up measures…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some $3.1 billion was donated to charitable causes in the U.S. in the 24 hours that are called…

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — They want money — that’s what they want, that’s what they want. Well, now the Rolling Stones can say…

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Five people have been found dead at a home in suburban Chicago in what police are saying is a likely “domestic-related…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A task force in Houston has unveiled a new agreement its members say will improve communication…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said Wednesday that he did not…