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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KLANG, Malaysia (AP) — Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has appealed to voters for another surprise victory when…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s governing alliance is pledging to create a stable government that will be…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting two Newark police officers was taken into custody Wednesday, after…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — WTA Tour Chairman and CEO Steve Simon says he does not know when women’s…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has found a former Liberian rebel guilty of torture, acts of barbarism and complicity…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has welcomed a pair of experts from China to help with an ailing panda in a rare opportunity for contact between the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says a Palestinian motorist slammed his car into an Israeli army officer near a checkpoint in the occupied West…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has affirmed his country’s commitment to invest in Pakistan despite a slowdown in recent years.…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Despite finishing first in Denmark’s election, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has…

By MARI YAMGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has left for Seoul to meet with South Korean officials as…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish soldiers have begun laying razor wire along Poland’s border with the Russian…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press The foreign fans descending on Doha for the 2022 World Cup will find a country where women work, hold public office…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say one more person from a migrant boat shipwreck has been found alive,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Schools and offices closed and some events in Hong Kong were canceled as tropical storm Nalgae…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A government inquiry has begun hearing evidence of unsolved deaths resulting from gay…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared headed toward victory…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Police Agency has raided local police departments in the…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Scuba divers are combing through a river in western India to make certain no bodies are left…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou was suspended Wednesday after…

By LEE KEATH and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Sarah Asimrin still hears it from her uncles sometimes: “You’re a girl,…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ROSETTA, Egypt (AP) — Sayed Abuel-Ezz has seen his crops wither from seawater before. As the Nile Delta farmer walks…

By DIANE JEANTET and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s apparent acknowledgment of his…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected Russia’s attempt to…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA is allowing teams to play and practice on Election Day. It had been a mandatory off day the past two…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Saudi prince who was attending graduate school in Boston is the latest person targeted as…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought Wednesday to strike a delicate balance at a…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Millions of students have begun trooping back to public schools across the Philippines. The government is enforcing a…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper bashed a home run on the first World Series pitch he saw in Philadelphia, and then…

By SAM METZ and BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — In the Utah desert, a treeless expanse of pristine white salt crystals has…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge declared a mistrial and dismissed grand theft charges Tuesday…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered armed members of a group monitoring ballot drop boxes in Arizona to stay…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 400 people died in October in a series of crowd-related disasters in Asia,…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney visited Michigan on Tuesday to…