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By The Associated Press Many sunbathers who want to take a dip in the cool water to escape the summer heat are being thwarted by high bacteria levels…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate in another sign of commitment to a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans says he wants to lead a combined campaign by two left-leaning parties…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England are staging a 48-hour walkout to demand better pay and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Fire Service has intensified water drops west of Athens where a huge blaze was contained overnight, as authorities…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Families and a rights defender say two prominent figures from Egypt’s human rights…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have…

By ELLEN McINTYRE Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — For a nation more than 7,000 miles from the United States, the Philippines boasts a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner have launched joint drills with the Belarusian military almost a month after…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told former top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger that relations between the two countries are at a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pop star Shakira is facing more trouble from Spain’s tax office after a court near Barcelona said Thursday that it had…

By JOSH BOAK and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has paid a visit to Philadelphia’s shipyard to…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian firefighter has died during a deadly storm that swept the Balkans after a heat wave, raising the death toll to…

By The Associated Press China’s ambassador to the United States says it does not want a trade war but will retaliate against any further U.S.…

By The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities say one man has been killed and at least 48 people are injured, some of them seriously,…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — An eighth cheetah death in India’s Kuno National Park last Friday has raised new questions…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Fans of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who broke negative stereotypes around Asian men in…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two suicide bombers attacked a sprawling compound housing a police station and…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have warned people in Berlin’s southern suburbs to watch out for a potentially dangerous animal, suspected to be…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Friday in Asia after the latest rally on Wall Street fizzled, with big…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s elections Sunday will be a battle between two leftist and two rightist…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A recent Saturday evening Mass at Sagrada Familia parish had all the hallmarks…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — One of the world’s largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek says Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have signed deals worth $50.7 billion, as President…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — As Jordan hosted regional talks this spring aimed at ending Syria’s isolation after more…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday after telling…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. And…

By MARCIO SANCHEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pink sauce on that Burger King burger? What about “Barbie-fying” your pet with…

By LISA MASCARO and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked to defend himself Thursday against accusations that…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRETTON WOODS, N.H. (AP) — The parents of a young woman who died while hiking in New Hampshire’s White…

By AAMER MADHANI and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is deeply concerned about the well-being of a U.S. soldier…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the IRS to test a new electronic free-file tax return system next year have got…

MOSCOW (AP) — A video released Wednesday appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for the first time since he led a short-lived…