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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grevy’s zebras, have died in…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — Differences over abortion have pitted one large batch of U.S. states against…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Black lawmaker in France said Friday he was “deeply hurt” by a racist remark a far-right…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press TRES RIOS, Brazil (AP) — Sometimes you start something and have no idea where it will lead. So it was with…

ED DAVEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In the Putumayo region of the Colombian Amazon, Segundo Meneses’ daily routine took him to the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Global average temperatures have risen and weather extremes have already seen an uptick, so…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The government of the Netherlands has banned a British conspiracy theorist from entering most of Europe for two…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The UK government says Northern Ireland elections aimed at restoring the region’s power-sharing…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s industry minister says that a Japanese consortium has decided to retain its stake in the…

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German officials are urging environmental activists to engage in…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America Cellphones — the ultimate distraction — keep children from learning, educators say. But in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the company,…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUENSTER, Germany (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies have rallied support…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s health ministry has said its severe anti-virus controls should be made less…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer says its updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults’ virus-fighting antibodies.…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of engaging in “energy…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A bubble barrier that prevents plastic waste from reaching the ocean is one of 15 initiatives named…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent barrage of missile tests, including…

By COLLEEN BARRY and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s new far-right led government has adopted a measure formalizing the…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is spending the closing days of her reelection campaign in the…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday he was feeling “really good” about…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has. The lawyers who…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of revelers have returned to Hong Kong Stadium to enjoy a highly anticipated…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — With Russia’s war in Ukraine raging, Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese Kabuki star who recently assumed a prestigious stage name says he wants to preserve the…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is pausing his march on the…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German factory orders were down 4% in September compared with the previous month, underlining expectations…

By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — When world leaders, diplomats, campaigners and scientists descend on Sharm…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has scrambled about 80 military aircraft, including advanced F-35 fighter…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Thirty years ago there was hope that a warming world could clean up its act. It didn’t. The United States…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dmytro Bondarenko is ready for the worst. He’s filled the storage…

By ASHOK SHARMA and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Haze and smog have enveloped the skyline of India’s capital region…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BHANINE, Lebanon (AP) — Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a…

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied Friday, but only after yo-yoing several times, as Wall Street…

By KIM CHANDLER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — Loretta Williams lives in Alabama but drove to Georgia to buy a lottery…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having more penalties heaped onto the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has struck Turkey’s western province of Izmir, causing panic among residents and toppling…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Justin Verlander beamed like a first-time big leaguer, and the Houston Astros feted the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday told supporters “we’re gonna free Iran” after…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers kept hiring vigorously in October, adding 261,000 positions, a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging voters to go to the polls to support…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for peace talks over Ukraine and warned against the conflict going nuclear in a meeting with…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chis Pappas has accused his Republican challenger of treating politics as a…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV icon Oprah Winfrey is endorsing Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested…

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge in Washington state has temporarily blocked Albertsons from paying a $4 billion dividend to investors as part of the grocery…