AP National News

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida is reversing its position, saying it will allow three professors…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan says it will pay $300,000 to the only employee who was fired as a result of…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — After nearly a century on its lofty perch, the northern mockingbird may be singing…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has received less than 50%…

BERLIN (AP) — A Russian diplomat has died in Berlin in what the Russian Embassy has called a “tragic accident.” It said the incident involving…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani lawyer says his client, a Czech model sentenced in 2019 to eight years in prison on charges of attempting to…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from the superstar duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, the film…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved new labor laws on working from home. The regulations introduce additional protection…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has filed charges of espionage and attempted state overthrow against five people who were allegedly part of a hackers…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles officials say a city utility worker was electrocuted while working in an underground electrical vault. The…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A trendy Zimbabwean restaurant has reopened but without an appearance by a South African…

By MATTHEW LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has named a new coordinator for its investigation into…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press Fears and unfounded rumors about COVID-19 vaccines have spread among Peru’s Indigenous people, who are about…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament has approved a reworded bill to allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has reported nearly 1,200 daily deaths from COVID-19, just short of the record in a persistent…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Young people both inside and outside the U.N. climate talks are…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Kingdom has rejected European Union proposals to streamline the trade of goods in…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Red Cross official says seven more bodies have been recovered from a high-rise…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it will ease border controls beginning Monday for fully vaccinated travelers excluding…

By DAVID A. LIEB, GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The attorneys general of 27 states have filed…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have seized four plots of land owned by the youngest son of…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will travel to Greece and the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus on a…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian authorities will limit gatherings and widen the use of COVID-19 passes to curb…

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nation’s top human rights official has condemned actions by military leaders following a coup in Sudan and says that…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s health minister has signed an order granting single women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people access to medically…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latvian parliament has given employers the go-ahead to dismiss employees who are required to get vaccinated against…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by…

By NICO GARRIGA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press GRANVILLE, France (AP) — French fisherman Hermann Outrequin gave up his fishing company job and…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China has criticized a press freedom survey from the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club that…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister, Nobuo Kishi, has said it will step up military cooperation with…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say that hundreds of thousands of tons of junk have been removed from a valley in western Germany since it was devastated…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in Bosnia, prompting evacuations,…

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Officials in Niger say suspected Islamic extremists have killed 69 people in an attack on a…

LONDON (AP) — Entertainer Lionel Blair, a staple on British stage and television for decades, has died. He was 92. Blair’s agent said he died…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s atomic agency says that its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium has reached over 210 kilograms (463 pounds), the latest…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s environmentalist Greens are signaling that negotiations to form a new governing coalition are progressing slowly and…

PARIS (AP) — A train struck and killed a migrant from Eritrea and at least two bodies were recovered from the sea and on a beach during a…

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Doctors in Bosnia are bracing for a new wave of the coronavirus in the Balkan nation, which has a low…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s conservative former top prosecutor, who has called for a stronger U.S.…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court has handed Russia at least a temporary victory in its appeal…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda has lowered its profit and vehicle sales forecasts for the fiscal year,…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has recorded its second consecutive daily record for new coronavirus cases as infections…

By SHLOMO MOR Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to protest against…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has canceled a multimillion dollar deal with Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland- based vaccine manufacturer…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Standing close together on a sunny autumn day, a group of people wait patiently by a blue…

By MARÍA VERZA, CHRISTINA LARSON and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press PROGRESO, Mexico (AP) — On Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, efforts are…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Thousands of women have fled Afghanistan in response to the Taliban takeover, fearing a…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks pushed further into record heights on Friday following an…

By TOM KRISHER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers The sweeping Biden administration’s new COVID-19 mandate will apply to 84 million workers…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Egypt have enforced tight travel restrictions as part of a blockade of Gaza…