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PRAGUE (AP) — Officials in the Czech Republic say the government will end checks on the country’s border with Slovakia that were renewed last…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the…

The Associated Press Beyoncé is taking her “Renaissance” global — the superstar will start a world tour in Sweden in May with stops throughout…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE AND JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — On the edge of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the Rovaris family is a…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings rose to 11 million in December, a sign the American labor market remains…

By ERIC TUCKER, COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister’s office says Chad will open an embassy in Israel, four years after the countries restored…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has traveled to Rabat along with 11 ministers…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a story published January 31, 2023, about comments in Hungary over Sweden’s NATO accession bid, The Associated…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer Saudi Arabia added to its influence in world soccer after its federation president won a seat on the FIFA Council.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Obama’s recent celebrity-filled book tour is becoming a podcast. Audible announced Wednesday that the former first…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden, Sheryl…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Big Brothers Big Sisters America CEO Artis Stevens says the 119-year-old nonprofit long known for…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — A top U.S. health official has urged the World Health Organization to address allegations that one…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bands of sleet and snow that brought traffic to a standstill across the nation’s midsection, canceled thousands of…

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — Officials say a strong, shallow earthquake has shaken a mountainous region in the southeastern Philippines but there are…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet While some travelers cringe at the thought of greasy sausages and bland eggs served at the free hotel breakfast buffet,…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — A pioneering campaign to vaccinate endangered monkeys in Brazil against yellow…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press KILDARE, Ireland (AP) — St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Europe’s inflation rate has dipped at the start of the year, giving some relief to consumers but…

LONDON (AP) — A top European Union official has told Elon Musk that Twitter needs to make progress in preparing for new digital regulations aimed…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern art gallery…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s been a sharp increase in the number of hate-filled business reviews spotted by…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Two Polish skiers have died in an avalanche at a Himalayan ski resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir and 21 people have been…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of footage showing Memphis, Tennessee, police officers violently beating Tyre…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has sentenced a Russian journalist in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military. It…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple and Google say they disagree with a Commerce Department report accusing them of…

Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced several new clean energy initiatives in her annual…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has made a donation to the Ukrainian army to settle a defamation case…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to ramp up capital spending by 33% in a…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Nearly four years ago, Austria’s populist far-right Freedom Party was ousted from the national…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German beer sales rose in 2022 after COVID-19 restrictions weighed on brewers in the previous two years.…

DETROIT (AP) — Police say three aspiring rappers who met in prison have been missing for 10 days after a Detroit gig suddenly was canceled because…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has ruled that a 14th century Korean Buddhist statue should be…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Visitors used to browse through Bakhmut’s late 19th century buildings, enjoy walks in its…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, CHRISTINA MALKIA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo’s people…

Hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne announced the cancellation of his 2023 tour dates in the U.K. and continental Europe. Osbourne issued a statement…

By VADIM GHIRDA and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Wednesday upheld a second 30-day arrest of the…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck…

By SALAR SALIM Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Officials from northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region say that several rockets targeted…

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,”…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and put navy ships and missile systems on alert in response to nearby operations by 34…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at…

By ISABEL DEBRE and SAM McNEIL Associated Press KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank (AP) — Protesters streaming up the windswept hills east of Jerusalem…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors linked Alec Baldwin to an expansive list of alleged failures in firearms safety as…

By AARON MORRISON and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says China’s growing assertiveness and…

By JOE Mcdonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines on Thursday announced plans to expand…

By SARA BURNETT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the 2024 presidential election as…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A procedural vote Wednesday in the House showed unified Republican support in…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press Australia has announced targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against “individuals responsible for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has logged its biggest monthly trade deficit ever, at $12.7 billion in…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official. On Wednesday,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong banned CBD as a “dangerous drug” and imposed harsh penalties for its possession on…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former “Dances With Wolves”…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Organizers on Tuesday announced a lineup of more than 270 acts for New Orleans’ 40th annual French Quarter Festival,…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The new district attorney for California’s Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area says she’ll…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House voted along party lines Tuesday to move the state’s primary to…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday night after being taken into…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Longtime University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has been fired following an investigation into…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral Wednesday a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow of a California man fatally shot by police in a Los Angeles suburb last year has…