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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union and Germany say they will give Albania nearly $88 million to turn the three main bus lines in the capital…

By EVENS SANON and BERT WILKINSON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday,…

By ALBERT STUMM For the Associated Press Sleeper trains are regaining momentum in Europe thanks to travelers who are concerned about climate change…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press A growing number of climate-conscious Europeans want to give up flying in favor of long-haul trains, especially…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans call it the “Trial of the Century,” but it’s…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to deploy the National Guard to the…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to electing a woman president, the ceiling holds. Nikki Haley’s exit from…

By SUSIE BLANN and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A county executive in the New York City suburbs has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings barely changed in January but remained at a high level, suggesting that the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president.…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a passenger shot aboard a bus in Philadelphia has died from his wounds, marking the third time in three days that…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their criminal case midtrial Wednesday against three men…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 34-year-old Royal Caribbean cruise employee is accused of hiding cameras inside bathrooms of passenger cabins to spy…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist has interrupted one of Las Vegas’ prominent shows. The Bellagio said in a social…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s activists and pro-government media say Islamic State militants have killed at least 18…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has weakened a proposed climate disclosure rule…

LONDON (AP) — A Cabinet minister in Britain has apologized and paid damages to an academic she had accused of expressing sympathy for Hamas.…

By The Associated Press Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow has called on his supporters to join a protest of this month’s…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says more than 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, a government…

MILAN (AP) — The humanitarian rescue group SOS Humanity on Wednesday protested Italy’s seizure of its migrant rescue ship Humanity 1, fresh from…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The royal palace in Norway says the infection that sent Europe’s oldest monarch to a hospital while traveling in…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón is launching her intended signature project in April.…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — The Philippine navy says it will not allow China to remove a…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Protesting Polish farmers on tractors have blocked highways leading into Warsaw while…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lingering respiratory and mobility problems are continuing to take their toll on the Pope. Francis presided over his weekly…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Democrats in Hawaii are voting on their party’s nominee for president. There has been little…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell begins two days of testimony to Congress on…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Top Chinese financial officials have outlined details of the ruling Communist Party’s…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian lawmakers have unanimously approved the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, which he submitted as part…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors have accused Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti of alleged tax fraud during his first stint at the club,…

By The Associated Press OpenAI has shot back at accusations from Elon Musk that the ChatGPT maker betrayed its founding goals of benefiting humanity…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways says it saw a $143 million in profit last year, citing an increase in passengers…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian pound has slipped sharply against the dollar after Egypt’s central bank raised its main…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A painting by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, who stunned the public by abdicating earlier this year, has been sold at…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says four migrants were found dead and 64 others were rescued when a boat from Mauritania…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president vows that he won’t tolerate the prolonged walkouts by…

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s director has arrived in Russia for talks on nuclear safety in Ukraine, where Europe’s…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The top U.N. food official has warned that the ruinous war raging for about a year between rival…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says that he is seeking a loan repayment moratorium until…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey has secured a U.S. Senate showdown with…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after tumbling Big Tech stocks dragged Wall Street to its…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The winner of the 2nd Frederic Chopin Competition on Period Instruments all but…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to protect in vitro fertilization providers.…

By SILVIA STELLACCI Associated Press ROME (AP) — For nearly six decades, the Tirelli atelier in Rome has woven itself into the fabric of Italian…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man wants the government to pay $9.5 million after being badly injured in a crash…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers place over 100 million food delivery orders each year via a very simple process:…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt will seek to regain political initiative by announcing tax cuts during his…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach is set to be sentenced for setting up sham social media and…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union on Thursday night. It’s…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Waiting times to diagnose and treat cancer across the U.K. have worsened in recent years and are at…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, becoming one of…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Nikki Haley suffered a string of significant losses on Tuesday that…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas has fended off a challenge on the right from a state…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jason Palmer, a previously unknown candidate, won the Democratic caucus in American Samoa on…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday did not quite live up to its name. President Joe Biden won…

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — A police chief says the combined reward in the case of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished last month has risen to…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three farmers have been killed by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Teamsters working for Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch have voted to ratify a labor agreement with the company. The union said…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Internationally renowned architect and avid motorcyclist Antoine Predock has died…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Prosecutors in Costa Rica say they have arrested a man and four women who posed as nuns to accept donations for false…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A suspected drug trafficker has been charged with killing two people who were potential witnesses against him in federal court in…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district formed to boost…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. destroyer shot down drones and a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-led Kentucky Senate has voted to grant the right to collect child support…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press was able to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the Virginia…

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A jury in Oregon has ordered PacifiCorp to pay more than $42 million to 10 victims of devastating wildfires on Labor Day…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers say the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, TRISHA AHMED and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Turnout was light on Super Tuesday in Minnesota, where…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Leaders of Australia and Laos have signed an agreement that deepens bilateral ties on…

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A large fire followed by multiple explosions at a building in suburban Detroit killed one person and injured a…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Momentum is building in a major case regarding homeless encampments that’s before the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BLOOMFIELD, N.J. (AP) — The ice cream parlor booth where Tony Soprano may or may not have been whacked has sold for…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press was able to declare President Joe Biden the winner of Iowa’s first…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota prosecutor has declined charges against three Bismarck police officers who were…