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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera’s career will end with the Detroit Tigers on Sunday against Cleveland at…

Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese state media says a climate activist has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of tax…

An explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has killed a teenage boy and injured at least 162 people. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said a fire…

VOLOS, Greece (AP) — A second powerful storm in less than a month has hammered parts of central Greece, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist who revolutionized India’s farming and was a…

The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago arrived back in the U.S.…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have raided offices of the Spanish soccer federation as part of a judicial investigation into the alleged payment of…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The three letters Brooks Koepka represents in the Ryder Cup are USA. Not LIV. The…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Deadly violence is continuing in Sweden, with three people killed overnight in separate incidents near Stockholm and in a city…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has reopened a main crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing thousands of…

CAIRO (AP) — Security officials say that at least five Yemeni fighters from a secessionist group were killed in clashes with suspected al-Qaida…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday in subdued trading on looming worries about China property…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s ambassador to Australia has criticized Australian politicians who visit…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted four national park employees, including a senior…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A shooting incident in the Slovak capital has left one person dead and four others injured. The rescue service in…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The centuries-old card game of bridge is being played at the Asian Games. Esports, chess,…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a law that makes it harder to…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday that it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic…

By EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Chinese-owned app TikTok says it regrets the Indonesian…

BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen says production is resuming after a problem with the German automaker’s information technology network caused a severe…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government has banned a book following protests over what was perceived as an insulting depiction of an…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials across Germany are sounding the alarm that they are no longer able to accommodate…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, EVELYNE MUSAMBI and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press How do you cook a meal when a staple ingredient is unaffordable? This…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press ALPINE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America’s wine, but the region is also prone…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press Hawaii’s top public utility officials and the president of Hawaiian Electric are expected to testify in a…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has launched the island’s first domestically made…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to picking fights with powerful…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden is delivering his fourth in a series of presidential…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to make their case for pursuing an inquiry against…

SYDNEY (AP) — Sri Lankan cricket international Danushka Gunathilaka has been found not guilty of raping a woman he met on a dating site during the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris is a city where motor vehicles have long been king. But now, it’s seeing rivers of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says in a new report that gang violence in Haiti is escalating and…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors have presented detailed testimony about the final moments of a toddler…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong stock exchanges says share trading of heavily indebted Chinese property developer China…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s armed forces sent troops, vehicle convoys and soldiers into remote…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in production…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — ExxonMobil has lost a court bid to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who climbed the platform at a campaign event in western New York last year and grappled with Republican gubernatorial…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing backlash, Walt Disney World’s governing district will pay a stipend to employees…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and RIO YAMAT Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress, Jenniffer González, says she will run for governor of the U.S. territory.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is accusing the United States of promoting Israel’s normalization of relations…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants from the southern U.S.…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to…

By REBECCA SANTANA and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to keep the cap on refugees admitted to…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A group of pharmacists frustrated with overwhelming workloads didn’t show up for work last week in at least a…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the rhetoric being used by their…

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Searchers have found the remains of a woman who was reported missing on Mother’s Day in 2020 after she did not return from…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Burkina Faso’s junta says the country’s intelligence and security services have…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Homeless shelters in Argentina’s capital are seeing demand soar as more people…

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Federal transportation investigators say the probable cause of a…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers have voted overwhelmingly against recommending approval of an…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recovered from a multi-drug resistant germ infection, is appearing in…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she won’t recuse herself from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two migrants from Honduras and El Salvador have died after trying to board a moving train in Mexico near the Texas border.…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Activists in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city are…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Barbara Bush never got to any of the NBA championship celebrations held at the White House when her grandfather…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The University of Nevada’s basketball team could have a new off-campus home by 2026 under an…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Terry Francona won’t be riding off on his beloved scooter after all. Just hours before his final…

By The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a murder suspect who was mistakenly released two weeks ago from jail in Indianapolis was captured Wednesday by the…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking more and…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government is promising a series of measures to curb bullying in…

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden is raising campaign cash in San Francisco while seven…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Industry leaders are defending and praising the work of the Horseracing Safety and Integrity Authority in the…