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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have flared anew this week after Kosovo’s police…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press FRESNO, California (AP) — For decades, worshipping in temples, Ram Asra has sung spiritual songs known as…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Seven men have appeared in court on charges of attempted murder related to the February attack on a…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Streamline how you manage your money to save yourself time and reduce stress. Prioritize addressing and simplifying your…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The shtick that’s gone viral features a soccer player, a Spice Girl, James Bond, you name it,…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions have rattled Kyiv during daylight as Russian ballistic missiles fell on the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader says he’d “welcome” the restoration of full…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Thailand say they seized more than a ton of crystal…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in…

By CIARÁN GILES and JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected a jailed publisher’s request to terminate his national security…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan…

ROME (AP) — Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built a religious school at a dismantled…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A United Nations committee is meeting in Paris to work on what is intended…

By CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — The new president of Nigeria has taken over the reins of power. Bola Tinubu was sworn in as…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network has ordered nine…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Evangelisto Ramos walked out of a New Orleans courthouse and away from a life sentence…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government honored record-holding climbers Monday during celebrations…

MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters say that they have recovered four bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden,…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) — Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells,…

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force say that 25 of its troops were…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) — Brian Keaulana is the quintessential Native Hawaiian waterman, well-known in…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment made a desperate retreat as North Korean troops closed in…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Eight months ago, chef Michael Cellura had a restaurant job and had just moved into…

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — After securing a strong new mandate in a runoff presidential election,…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has a message for members of the liberal wing of his party who…

By JILL COLVIN and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched his campaign for the…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country’s orbiting space…

By The Associated Press There’s new music from Foo Fighters, the buzzy HBO series “The Idol” starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd and a…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials are evacuating thousands of villagers, shutting schools and offices…

By FREIDA FRISARO and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press Officials in Iowa are making plans to demolish a six-story apartment building a day after it…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers approved a bill expanding what is considered an illegal performance of sexual…

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with five separate shootings in the Phoenix metro area that left four people dead and…

HENDERSON, KY (AP) — A convicted murderer who escaped last week from a northwest Ohio prison with another inmate by hiding in a trash container was…

BEIRUT (AP) (AP) — Syrian state media is reporting that airstrikes attributed to Israel have targeted Syria’s capital city, the first such…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a man wounded three people when he opened fire the parking lot of a Texas strip club early Sunday before…

MILAN (AP) — Italian media report that a sudden storm overturned a boat on Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region, with at least one person…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mpox health emergency has ended, but U.S. health officials are aiming to prevent a repeat…

SUMMERTON, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leaders in South Carolina say they plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to rename the landmark Brown v.…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The reviews are starting to come in about the debt ceiling agreement reached by President Joe…

RED RIVER, N.M. (AP) — Three men killed in a weekend shootout at a New Mexico motorcycle rally were members of rival outlaw biker gangs, and the…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Human rights activists in Poland say a group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum,…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Jennifer Sepulveda used to drop off her 14-year-old son, Jorden, at the local mall…

MILAN (AP) — Police in Venice are investigating the source of a phosphorescent green liquid patch that appeared Sunday in the city’s famed Grand…

WILLIAMSPORT An Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during World War II has been accounted for almost eight decades later, military…

By STEVE PEOPLES and GARY FIELDS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Race has emerged as a central issue in the 2024 presidential contest as the…