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By ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of…

By RAGAN CLARK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reevaluating friendships and emotions during the pandemic, James Blake channeled his…

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian magistrate has rejected the release on bail of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, who was arrested this week in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah has criticized the “lack of compassion” of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Christmas album from Norah Jones and the return of “Succession,”…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV AND HRVOJE HRANJSKI Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize sometimes recognizes groundbreaking efforts to…

By The Associated Press Journalists, human rights groups and other activists enthusiastically welcomed the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The president of San Jose State University has announced her resignation after the California university last month agreed…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell…

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio told the director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that he’s “deeply concerned” over the failure to protect…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved four bills that enshrine in law the country’s rules and procedures on blood…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Get tested. Wear a mask. Don’t get too close. Not your typical court…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers U.S. stock indexes are closing lower Friday after a weak jobs report sparked…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MATANZAS, Cuba (AP) — At the end of the 19th century in Cuba, a new musical genre and dance emerged. The…

BERLIN (AP) — A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II has told a German…

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — The state attorney general’s office says a former Georgia state lawmaker and university regent has pleaded guilty to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the top Belarusian diplomat in the country after Polish authorities alleged that…

LONDON (AP) — Britain says it it will offer new vaccinations to thousands of people who volunteered for trials of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine,…

BERLIN (AP) — The junior partner in Austria’s governing coalition is calling on Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s party to replace him with an…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Years after a Kentucky lawyer orchestrated a $600 million fraud, his clients remain…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges have decided to ask the United Nations Secretary-General for information on who…

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Inflation has come roaring back in Brazil and surpassed 10% for the first…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll has hit a new record amid the country’s sluggish…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH, SCOTT BAUER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press has found…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Colombian national police officer who was part of an elite unit that worked closely with U.S.…

ROME (AP) — The northern Italian city of Turin will host the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in the spring. Turin Mayor Chiara…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis won’t be attending the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Francis said in a recent…

PARIS (AP) — French anti-racism activists have telephoned temporary employment agencies posing as a construction firm that wanted to hire only…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense ministry says a company of the military’s guard battalion has been suspended from official duty amid an…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The mayor of Hungary’s capital has announced he would withdraw from a primary contest…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s interior minister has rejected accusations that police used excessive force to curb anti-government…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior officials from two founding members of the European Union have expressed fears that a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer KAMINO KAWA, Japan (AP) — Nissan’s “intelligent factory” hardly has any human workers. The robots do the…

HONG KONG (AP) — One worker died and others were trapped when a major rainstorm blew traditional bamboo scaffolding off the side of a building…

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite…