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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Caissie Levy has vacated her palace on Broadway for a modest Louisiana home. She has traded…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The outgoing U.N. envoy for Myanmar says “civil war” has spread throughout the…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova has turned to a non-Russian natural gas supplier for the first time as the…

LONDON (AP) — A Cambridge University college is handing over a bronze cockerel looted from Africa in the 19th century to Nigerian authorities.…

DETROIT (AP) — Charges have been dismissed against a Detroit police officer who was accused of firing rubber pellets at three journalists covering…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s governor has been hospitalized with severe fatigue for the second time in four months and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the second season of HBO Max’s “Love Life,” William Jackson Harper takes over the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court in the Netherlands has convicted an Iranian refugee of preparing and financing terror attacks in his…

By SALLY HO and JOSH BOAK Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The pandemic has made clear what many experts had long warned: The absence of reliable…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s health minister is warning the country could face a nightmare scenario if it does not contain its…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A woman who was fired after asking to bring an oxygen tank to work to help her breathe will get $25,000 in a federal…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India is criticizing China for passing a new land boundary law which it says could impact the two…

By EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — Residents on Spain’s La Palma island are…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia will spend $14 million to equip all of its officers with stun guns, train them in their use and require officers…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tens of millions of unpopular cloth masks produced as an anti-coronavirus measure under former…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The political organization led by prominent Democrat Stacey Abrams is branching out into paying off…

BOSTON (AP) — A nor’easter that battered the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force wind gusts has left more than a half-million customers without…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs as university cities join in a national…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say a resident of a high-rise condominium near Bangkok cut the support…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say violence at an anti-France Islamist rally in eastern Pakistan…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden, which has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic, has…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation for people who…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Their travel and performances were limited during the pandemic. So soprano Renée Fleming and…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Midday bombings have injured at least nine people near a busy government office in Myanmar’s second…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Europe’s leading human rights organization says Cyprus remains a “very centralized country” where local…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help reconciliation…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A hike in the cost of wheat is alarming French households who fear a possible rise in the price of…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has upheld the Warsaw mayor’s ban on an annual march organized by…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — EgyptAir says a Moscow-bound flight has returned to the Egyptian capital shortly after its takeoff…

BRUSSELS (AP) — In a story published October 27, 2021, about the European Union and Poland, The Associated Press erroneously reported the title for…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Operations John Manza says the military organization’s…

By ALBERTO ARCE and RODRIGO ABD Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Youri Mevs is not starving, not struggling for survival — in so…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ghosts and goblins can scratch the White House from their trick or treating routes this…

LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to allow other drug makers to make its COVID-19 treatment, the first pill that has been shown…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Internal Facebook documents reveal a country lit “on fire” in the days after…

By MARGARETTE BURNETTE of NerdWallet With fewer outlets for in-person spending, many people have been saving more money over the last 18 months than…

LONDON (AP) — Climate protesters have tried to block two major roads into London, despite court injunctions banning them from disrupting traffic.…

By ALBERTO ARCE The Associated Press A judge has ordered authorities in Spain to register a toddler who was born during her mother’s journey from…

By ILAN BEN ZION and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved about 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has hit another record for daily COVID-19 deaths as authorities across the country…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union founding member Belgium warned Poland on Wednesday not to treat the EU like “a cash…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Taxes on alcoholic drinks in the U.K. are being radically simplified in the biggest overhaul in more…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is meeting with Greek officials during a visit to Athens that’s expected to focus on…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Unidentified gunmen attacked a police patrol overnight in northwest Pakistan, killing four before fleeing the scene, a…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament will not extend the “epidemic situation of national scope” when it…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank has seen its net profit increase 6%, to 329 million euros, in the third quarter despite a sharp increase in…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament is poised to reject the minority Socialist government’s proposed…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations Security Council and the United States have imposed sanctions on a Libyan official…

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats say a deal is within reach on President Joe…