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By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll in this week’s clashes between rival militias in Libya’s capital rose to…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer Former West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has entered a 12-month diversion program to resolve a drunken…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden proclaims that his administration is “turning things around” for…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken has sent a message marking the anniversary of the 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising in…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan State University Board of Trustees on Wednesday authorized the school to…

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Dozens of migrants headed for Spain are believed missing and feared dead after coast guards…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has doubled public sector wages and pensions as the war-torn…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The death toll from this week’s powerful explosion in…

By RAHMAT MIRZA Associated Press TEUPIN REUSEUP, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Wednesday burned a marijuana plantation in the northern…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A police dispatcher and a detective have testified in the trial of two white men…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 33 people from a landslide at a jade mine in northern…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Lauren Hemp didn’t let the Women’s World Cup semifinal match between Australia and England…

By ASIM TANVEER and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a Muslim mob has attacked a Christian area in Pakistan’s…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has decided to temporarily close two of its six checkpoints with Belarus this…

BEIJING (AP) — Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show China is constructing an airstrip on a South China Sea island also…

By DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Civil Guard police have arrested five French tourists and one Swiss for allegedly…

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet To save money on Europe travel in 2023, look to second cities (usually the second-largest city in a popular tourist…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds You may be familiar with previous technology format wars, whether it be VHS versus Betamax or Blu-ray versus HD DVD. Now…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court has cleared the way for Parliament to vote for a new…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A mother drowned trying to rescue her 10-year-old son as he was pulled by the current at a…

By LINLEY SANDERS and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are deeply divided along party lines in their views of…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese Cabinet ministers say an offshore drilling rig has arrived at its destination in the…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy was…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Nigeriens are preparing for a possible invasion by countries in the region, three weeks after…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The rate of inflation in the U.K. fell sharply in July to a 17-month low largely on the back of lower…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand jury has found a mother guilty of murdering her three young daughters…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, setting the scene for the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after notes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese and Indian military commanders have pledged to “maintain the peace and tranquility” along their disputed border in an…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has…

HAMBURG, Calif. (AP) — Rural areas near California’s border with Oregon are under evacuation orders after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Public schools on Maui are starting…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press AL-MADAM, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nestled in sand dunes an hour’s drive from the skyscrapers of Dubai, a…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, MATT O’BRIEN and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The company behind a disastrous change to a…

By ARIANA CUBILLOS and JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ Associated Press MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — The fishermen of Lake Maracaibo say they face their worst…