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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Israel and Ukraine could face each other for a spot at next year’s European…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to…

By LORNE COOK and JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The European Union’s border agency says that it will send dozens of officers and…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary is set to receive 900 million euros ($981 million) in European Union money despite the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group has fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel.…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, has suffered a damaging setback as nine lawmakers quit the party in…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is on course for reelection in a vote…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered another huge interest rate hike as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian shelling has killed three civilians in southeastern regions of the country. Meanwhile, a…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Riot police have used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — New laws rushed through Australia’s Parliament last week to mandate curfews and electronic tracking bracelets on some…

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He’s been threatened with death…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that Russian support likely enabled…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders won a huge victory in Dutch…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of police officers are searching the properties of Hamas members and followers in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An agreement for a four-day cease-fire in Gaza and the…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Four Indian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with rebels fighting against New Delhi’s…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities say dozens of residents have been evacuated and at least 10 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire…

By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI and FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press GONAREZHOU NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — About 200 wild horses roam free in a western North Dakota national park. But that number could…

NEW YORK (AP) — Beloved characters like Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants will take to the skies above New York City Thursday while bands march…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Three New Zealand political leaders say they’ve reached an agreement to form the…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — First, some families fled drought and violence. Now they say they have nowhere to hide…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The rescue of 41 construction workers trapped nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in India has reached the final stretch of…

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. (AP) — A train has derailed and spilled chemicals in a remote part of eastern Kentucky, prompting officials to encourage…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Incumbent Erin Mendenhall has won her reelection bid for mayor of Utah’s capital in a ranked-choice contest that included a…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A rebel group with alleged links to neighboring Rwanda claims to have seized a key town in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has struck down an effort to enshrine reproductive rights, including…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fiji’s leader says that after meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, he hopes…

By VICTOR CAIVANO Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military officials have shown a group of international journalists a small…

By COLLEEN LONG, SEUNG MIN KIM, SAM MAGDY and JULIA FRANKEL The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiations to free the hostages held by Hamas…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin’s new wolf management plan. They…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Penthouse magazine model sued Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose on Wednesday, saying he…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Guard officers have arrested the alleged security chief for the “Chapitos” wing of the Sinaloa drug…

TEHACHAPI, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California prison inmate has died after he was stabbed several times by two other prisoners. State…

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Utah Tech has suspended women’s basketball coach JD Gustin for two games following an investigation into allegations of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state Supreme Court is refusing to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He’s been threatened with death…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The FBI says a gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii leaders want to make it easier for tourists from Japan to visit the U.S. state by creating a traveler pre-clearance program.…

By BASSEM MROUE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A jury has found a senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty of breaching the country’s…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury should decide whether Tesla and Elon Musk oversold the electric car…

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei has called for the…

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Automaker Stellantis has announced a recall of more than 32,000 of its hybrid Jeep Wrangler SUVs because they pose a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Two people accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is defending itself from claims of political bias after an…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are reporting more cases of children sickened by fruit puree pouches…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governmental human rights agency says soldiers opened fire “without reason” a year ago in the violent border city…

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A Vermont religious school that withdrew its girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has ruled that a Republican-drawn map for…

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three people are dead and three others remain missing after a landslide…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of child sex charges who has been…

MOBLE, Ala. (AP) — Records show that a suspended Alabama priest recently married the teenager he fled to Italy with this summer. A marriage…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEN SWEET Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While the scandals in the cryptocurrency industry seem to never end, Washington…

By KATE BRUMBACK and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Body camera video shows an Atlanta police officer responding to a minor car…

WINSTED, Conn. (AP) — A small Connecticut newspaper that began publishing in February with the help of Ralph Nader has been saved from a planned…

By JAMEY KEATEN and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — International aid groups that have lined up thousands of aid trucks for Gaza say…