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Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — More than 1.5 million dehumidifiers are under recall following reports of nearly two dozen fires, according to the U.S. Consumer…
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have confirmed that a controversial government-planned referendum…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring…
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The U.S. labor market continues to flex its muscle, as applications for jobless claims fell again last week and remain…
Continue ReadingBy MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press After a summer with the kids around, the start of school can be a chance for parents to focus more on their own…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Officials say a wildfire is burning out of control through the Spanish Canary Island of…
Continue ReadingBy KARL RITTER and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden has raised its terror alert to the second-highest level. The move comes…
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Defense Ministry said Thursday it has secured its largest-ever defense deal…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military academies must improve their leadership, stop toxic practices such as…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian police were searching a wooded area in the country’s north for a young Dutchman who allegedly stabbed to death his father…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLAS GARRIGA and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The world’s top female triathletes rushed forward into the Seine in a key test…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday imposed a 3-million-ruble ($32,000) fine on Google for failing to delete allgedly false information about…
Continue ReadingBy OLIVIA CHEN of NerdWallet New rules from the Small Business Administration and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aim to expand capital access…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities said Thursday they have seized more than a ton of pangolin scales worth over 50 million baht ($1.4 million) that…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official…
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has warned that his government would not tolerate any further…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Just a few days after the first GOP presidential debate of the 2024 cycle, two of the…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China says it would welcome a visit by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo following the imposition of foreign investment controls…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has traveled to Saudi Arabia. The trip Thursday to…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson stamped her name on the long, illustrious list of American sprint…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A small aircraft lost control and crashed Thursday on a highway in Malaysia’s central Selangor state, killing…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Michael Parkinson, the renowned British broadcaster who interviewed some of the world’s most…
Continue ReadingBy ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — More than 60 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish fishing vessel rescued a boat off Cape…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian filmmaker and his producer reportedly face prison time and being…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is preparing for a new round of provocative weapons displays such as…
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s newly elected Parliament has voted by a majority to elect a Socialist…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank says it’s raising its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to combat high…
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — West African defense chiefs are meeting to discuss the crisis in Niger after coup leaders…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Heavy rain in parts of Germany caused flooding and led to dozens of flight cancelations at Frankfurt Airport, the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy K.M. CHAUDHRY and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press JARANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Police in eastern Pakistan have arrested 129 Muslims after a mob…
Continue ReadingBy CHONCHUI NGASHANGVA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Days of relentless rain in India’s Himalayan region have killed at least…
Continue ReadingBy TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one hand and balancing a musket over his…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JIFTLIK, West Bank (AP) — Across the dusty villages of the occupied West Bank, where Israeli water pipes don’t…
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces raided a home above a bakery in a militant stronghold…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan suffered a trade deficit last month as exports sank for the first time in two years and five…
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press RIVNE, Ukraine (AP) — An organization in Ukraine is helping former soldiers who lost their vision in combat…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston was ruled not guilty Thursday of an Australian…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly slipped Friday as rising yields in the bond market on Wall Street set off…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — California residents driven from their homes by one of the deadliest…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Many survivors of the wildfire that consumed Lahaina are experiencing depression, anxiety and…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s government is trying to reassure jittery homebuyers after a major real estate developer…
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Continue ReadingBy JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Nine of 10 people who watched commercial television in Australia on Wednesday night tuned in to see the…
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