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By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Islamic State group’s 2015 attacks on Paris…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German industrial production increased in July after three consecutive months of declines that have…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has sentenced to four years in prison a former top government official for taking…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says it’s keeping a close watch on North Korea amid signs…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The southern Indian state of Kerala is ramping up efforts to stop a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, even as the…

By LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Survivors of Islamic State group’s 2015 attack on Paris and those who…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s military says it has launched airstrikes on what it said was a Hamas…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who spent three nights lost in rugged Australian woodland is home…

By MARIAM FAM, DEEPTI HAJELA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim Americans who grew up under the shadow of 9/11 have…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are mixed in Asia after shares closed mostly lower on Wall Street as traders returned…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The main underground group coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military rulers has called for a…

By CURT ANDERSON, TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A man who lives near the Florida home where three adults…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s import and export growth accelerated in August despite disruptions due to the spread of…

HONG KONG (AP) — Travelers arriving in Hong Kong from mainland China will no longer need to quarantine. The semi-autonomous city’s top official…

By MARIAM FAM, DEEPTI HAJELA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim Americans who grew up under the shadow of 9/11 have…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A huge California wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region is about half contained. The head of the state’s…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has gone back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English…

By MATTHEW DALY and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page after a summer of unrelenting crises and refocus…

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Surveying storm damage, President Joe Biden has declared climate change…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand has penned a memoir out Tuesday that offers a view from…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have broken through police roadblocks that sought to prevent access to the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Representatives of Venezuela’s government and opposition say they have agreed to find ways to deal with the pressing needs of…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Court testimony shows that the Minnesota State Patrol purged emails and text messages immediately after protests over the death…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government is warning about a spike in kidnappings and…

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Amnesty International says Syrian security forces have subjected Syrians who return home to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANDREW DALTON NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michael K. Williams, who played the beloved character Omar Little on “The Wire,”…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two critical jobless benefit programs have expired, leaving only a handful of economic options for…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean health authorities have approved the use of Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus for 6-year-old children and…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The pitch intruders claimed to have very good reason to be confronting players only seven minutes into…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party.…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is about to be…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked Labor Day by delivering deli sandwiches to union…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is postponing the start of post-Brexit border checks on goods going to Northern…

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Greg Wilfert remembers his first visit to Scarborough Beach State Park as a teenager like it was yesterday. Decades…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — French energy giant Total has signed mega contracts with Iraq worth $27 billion to develop oil…

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar extended for two weeks the pre-trial detention of Danny Fenster, an American journalist in the military-led…

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a 6-year-old girl died at an amusement park in the western Colorado town of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The October illegal campaign contribution trial of an associate of Rudy Giuliani and a guilty…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to…

By KEVIN MCGILL and JEFF MARTIN NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials in New Orleans say they will thoroughly inspect senior living apartments in the…

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police force is struggling to meet staffing targets to fully comply with a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MORRISTOWN, Vt. (AP) — Rural communities across the country are wrestling with the economic perks and environmental…

By CHRISTINA PACIOLLA Associated Press The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar notorious for his anti-Muslim remarks has been freed from…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have blocked access to a website affiliated with imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny that advises voters…

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved major disaster declarations greenlighting federal aid for people six New Jersey counties…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Christopher Columbus is getting kicked off Mexico City’s most iconic boulevard. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says the Columbus…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal…