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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait has put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the small,…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Qatar’s decision to launch itself into hosting the 2022 World Cup was a head-scratcher from the start. Why, some…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatari World Cup organizers have apologized to a Danish television station whose live broadcast from a street in Doha was…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by an…

By FRANK JORDANS, SAMY MAGDY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them…

By ADAM SCHRECK and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have firmly condemned the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a blast in Poland that killed two people probably…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say one more body has been recovered following the shipwreck earlier this month of an overloaded migrant…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space capsule hurtled toward the moon Wednesday for the first time in 50 years,…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press AL-AROUB REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In two volatile spots in the occupied West Bank, Israel has installed…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday amid concerns about the impact of China’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate rose to a 41-year high in October, fueling demands for the government to…

By The Associated Press Qatar will be the home of the FIFA World Cup beginning Nov. 20, marking the first time the Mideast has hosted the…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that…

By YURI KAGEYAMA and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers TOKYO (AP) — The new Toyota gas-electric Prius hybrid not only comes with more power,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a man stabbed and critically injured two people inside a Target store in downtown Los Angeles before he…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says armed militants ambushed a routine police patrol in the country’s northwest, killing all six…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig did not have a criminal attorney with him and felt compromised partly because of his…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of…

By YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Over 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian…

By BOB CHRISTIE and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ballot measures in the U.S. to build more affordable housing and protect tenants from soaring…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge is preparing to sentence a Chinese national convicted of trying to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages crossed a major Senate hurdle…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Rose Prophete thought the second mortgage loan on her Brooklyn home was resolved about a decade ago — until she…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities locked down a major university in Beijing on Wednesday after finding one…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Senate investigation has found that U.S. immigration authorities didn’t do enough to…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — At 97, two-time former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is back in the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say two Los Angeles County deputies won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man they tried to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Costner can comfortably boast of being television’s biggest star right now. His…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is licensing its name to a golf resort in Oman in the first of what it…

VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rape allegations against actor Danny Masterson were so riddled with contradictions and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone went missing from the public record.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois voters have approved an amendment to their state constitution that…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Melbourne United starting center Isaac Humphries has announced that he is gay and says he hopes his decision to go…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was…

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders…