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By STEPHEN McGRATH AND ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Two of three NATO surveillance planes deployed temporarily to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Semiofficial Iranian news agencies are reporting that a German national has been arrested in Iran after…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman to protest a move by Israeli police to block…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The fastest Corvette ever made comes out later this year, and it’s not powered solely by a howling…

By The Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — A trial in absentia has opened for Belarus’ top opposition leader who denounced the proceedings…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s parliament say a corruption scandal ravaging the…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian police unit that investigates war crimes wants to talk to a Russian…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A nine-person jury was seated Tuesday to hear a trial that will determine whether…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Fidelity Investments will commit $250 million to a new education initiative to support up to 50,000 underserved…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has returned to the Australian Open with a straight-set victory in…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has sent his condolences to the victims of a bombing on a Pentecostal church in eastern Congo. Islamic militants claimed…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As we kick-start 2023, many parents are rebalancing their budgets and looking for ways to save money amid…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli military fire killed a 40-year-old Palestinian man in…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam’s president has resigned, becoming the most senior member of the government to step down…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Airplane passenger Sonu Jaiswal’s 90-second smartphone video began with the aircraft…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over opposition claims of incompetence. The main…

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian cardinal who spent more than a year in prison before his child abuse convictions were quashed on appeal will be…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says French soccer federation president Noël Le Graët is under investigation for sexual harassment…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift’s acoustic guitar, Eminem’s signed tennis shoes and an ensemble worn by a BTS member are among the items to be…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being given up…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is pushing forward with a major clean tech industrial plan that not only should…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A provincial official in Afghanistan says nine men were lashed in public as punishment for different crimes. Tuesday’s…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is appointing a regional official as Germany’s new defense minister following the resignation of…

By SUZAN FRASER and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady on Tuesday pressed world leaders and corporate executives at the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Human rights groups are urging Sri Lanka’s government to release a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A defense attorney says a man charged with threatening to kill a Kansas congressman is harmless.…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen is seeing its longest-ever pause in fighting, more than nine months. Yemeni, Saudi and U.N.…

By MARC LEVY, BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Josh Shapiro has become the 48th governor of…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after Japan’s central bank kept its lax monetary…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi has denied allegations that she obtained a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate to…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — So much for notion that Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys might not be up to the challenge of…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida said eight people were shot during an Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, with one of the victims listed…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to California’s central coast Thursday to visit areas that have been devastated by extreme…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says in a new report that Al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups are…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 90 countries have expressed “deep concern” at Israel’s punitive measures…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a 14-year-old girl fatally shot an 11-year-old boy at a Dallas apartment complex parking lot after retrieving a gun…

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — A former University of Mississippi and NFL football player has been arrested on kidnapping charges. Jerrell Powe remained…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press GRAFENWOEHR TRAINING AREA, Germany (AP) — Monday was just Day Two for Ukrainian soldiers at the U.S.…

CYRIL, Oklahoma (AP) — An effort to locate a missing 4-year-old Oklahoma girl who authorities believe was killed by a caretaker has become a search…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man made off with $300,000 cash in a bizarre Brink’s truck robbery outside a Brooklyn bank last week. According to…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner and his wife have filed for bankruptcy in Nevada, citing up to $50 million in debts…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats says the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide is going through “kind of a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon says she and her husband are recovering at home after being hit by a car. A Portland…

BEECH GROVE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man faces criminal charges after a young boy was allegedly seen holding a handgun outside their apartment and…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tributes are pouring in for a former Afghan female lawmaker who was shot and killed by gunmen in…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams criticized the federal government’s response…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A leading Nigerian presidential candidate is pledging to fight the endemic corruption that has stifled growth for many years.…

By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish regional chief has contradicted an announcement by a far-right member of his cabinet…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The German and Dutch foreign ministers have condemned the deportation by Russians of…

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Six people — including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby — were killed in a shooting early Monday at a home…