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By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its upcoming Summit for Democracy, prompting…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and Vietnam have expressed serious concern about any unilateral actions aimed…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The island kingdom of Bahrain has announced plans for over $30 billion in spending to spur investment and build…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for millions of federal workers…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Pharmacies have lost in a groundbreaking trial in Ohio over the toll of…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed to a modest annual rate of 2.1% in the July-September quarter,…

By PHILIPP JENNE and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has warned that his inspectors are close to…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating Shalanda Young to lead the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian rocket has blasted off successfully to deliver a new docking module to the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket…

LONDON (AP) — A man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending a bomb hoax to a U.K. coronavirus vaccine factory and similar…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A panel of U.K. lawmakers has slammed the government’s handling of compensation claims from legal…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Social distancing has became mandatory again across the Netherlands as coronavirus…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Italian government is targeting unvaccinated people in its latest effort to contain rising…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is appealing to the European Union not to forget…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Some British politicians are demanding a change in parliamentary rules after a lawmaker was told she…

By ANNA HELHOSKI of NerdWallet Workers seeking a new career may face challenges if they’re looking to retrain, labor experts say. That’s because…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The Slovak government has approved a two-week national lockdown amid a record surge of coronavirus infections. Prime…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria and North Macedonia have begun periods of national mourning in honor of the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, has lost control of the city…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds This has been a tough year to buy a new or used car in America. With COVID-19 factory shutdowns, semiconductor chip…

BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence has dropped for the fifth consecutive month amid persistent…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Singapore say they will partially reopen their borders next week to fully vaccinated citizens, after…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden is recommending that everyone between the ages of 18 and 65 should get a booster shot against COVID-19 six months…

PRAGUE (AP) — Coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic have soared to a new record high, reaching almost 26,000 daily cases. The Health…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government says Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has tested negative for COVID-19 after his French counterpart, whom he met early in the…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Rising unemployment, endemic corruption and a recent economic crisis that slashed state…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Injuries and COVID-19 protocol absences have muddled the NHL standings throughout the first quarter of the season.…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases jumped by 11% in Europe in the last week, the only region in the world where…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Israel and Morocco have signed a landmark agreement that lays the foundation for security…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has been given a one-year…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Magdalena Andersson has resigned as Sweden’s prime minister hours after being…

By JON GAMBRELL and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two journalists from Norwegian state television were arrested…

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German center-left leader Olaf Scholz says three parties have reached a deal to…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is spawning in an explosion of color as the World Heritage-listed natural wonder…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A thick cloud of smog has enveloped Pakistan’s cultural capital, earning it the ignominious title of the world’s most…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, determined to reclaim…

By DANIEL NIEMANN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ESCHWEILER, Germany (AP) — Germany is inching toward the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince have overseen…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Federal Reserve officials indicated they were ready to raise…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli warplanes attacked some army positions in the country’s central region leaving two…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department’s review of the 1966 death of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three men have been convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. He’s the Black…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minnesota (AP) — A Minnesota woman who worked as an agricultural adviser in the hinterlands of…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have finally driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of family services,…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of…