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BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the Boston area’s public transit agency to determine whether there was a…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Novak Djokovic isn’t alone in having his visa canceled after flying in for the Australian Open without the…

By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and NATO are roundly rejecting Russian demands that the alliance…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MAKURDI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 people have been killed in three days of violence in Nigeria’s troubled…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A winter storm in the eastern U.S. has snarled travel and given hundreds of school districts…

PRAGUE (AP) — The new Czech government says it aims to phase out coal in energy production by 2033 while increasing the country’s reliance on…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The tallest mountain in the Galapagos islands is erupting, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his rude remarks about the country’s minority of vaccine refusers, saying he cannot…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has delivered two tons of medicines to Afghanistan, although it has not officially…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is recalling its new ambassador to Prague after he criticized the country’s approach to a dispute with the Czech…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The government of the Netherlands has sparked anger by announcing it may have to…

By ZEN SOO and KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have suspended several government officials from duty and will…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press GUIPRY, France (AP) — The wildfire spread across Europe of the highly contagious omicron variant of the…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s population has declined by 11.5% in the past decade, according to first results from the 2021 census.  The…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three suspected pirates detained on a Danish military vessel after a fatal gunfight in November off West Africa have…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has dismissed North Korea’s claim to have recently launched a hypersonic…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is distributing an additional $4.5 billion in funds to help low-income…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is displaying three ballistic missiles at an outdoor prayer esplanade in central Tehran as talks in Vienna…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says an airstrike has killed three Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid the…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities are facing face growing pressure to free an author who has been in…

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press KYIV, UKRAINE (AP) — Ukraine’s Court has frozen the assets of former President Petro Poroshenko as part of…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit its highest level on record, led by…

BERLIN (AP) — Budget airline Ryanair says it will stop serving Germany’s busiest airport at the end of March and close its base there. Ryanair…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has announced it is tightening some entry restrictions while expanding its “sandbox” quarantine program, and has urged…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s lockdowns of big cities to fight coronavirus outbreaks are prompting concerns about…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Arsenal will wear all-white jerseys drained of the club’s traditional red colors for…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French president Emmanuel Macron and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen paid…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leaders have agreed to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars. They also…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Novak Djokovic is spending one of his important religious holidays in an Australian detention hotel working on his…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, is to celebrate its 110th…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Louis Riddick realizes he is in a favorable position. He is an analyst on the NFL’s most iconic television package…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended lower on Wall Street Friday and Treasury yields rose as investors…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s president has authorized security forces to shoot to kill those participating in…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has acknowledged that the country bought…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has approved new restrictions to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the three…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Weeks after American billionaire Michael Steinhardt agreed to surrender dozens of plundered…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery have been sentenced to life in prison,…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A spokesperson for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he “will not…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A growing number of U.S. school districts are moving back to online classes because of the winter…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan health authorities have begun vaccinating children aged 12 to 15, as…

By STEVE McMORRAN Associated Press On the tennis court, Novak Djokovic’s timing is perfect. But when the No.1 player boarded a plane for Australia…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it will skip next month’s Beijing Olympics because of the COVID-19…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has returned from space with hopes of new celestial investments.…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer Symptoms of common colds, the flu and COVID-19 can overlap, so experts say testing is the best way to determine…

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The difficulty finding coronavirus test kits in many parts of California and…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Just a year ago, many Republicans joined Democrats in reacting with horror to the Capitol…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar to revive peace efforts after last…