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ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis won’t be attending the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Francis said in a recent…

By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Tata Sons, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate, will be the new owner of the country’s debt-laden national…

PARIS (AP) — French anti-racism activists have telephoned temporary employment agencies posing as a construction firm that wanted to hire only…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense ministry says a company of the military’s guard battalion has been suspended from official duty amid an…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The mayor of Hungary’s capital has announced he would withdraw from a primary contest…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior officials from two founding members of the European Union have expressed fears that a…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s interior minister has rejected accusations that police used excessive force to curb anti-government…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer KAMINO KAWA, Japan (AP) — Nissan’s “intelligent factory” hardly has any human workers. The robots do the…

HONG KONG (AP) — One worker died and others were trapped when a major rainstorm blew traditional bamboo scaffolding off the side of a building…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A spate of Chinese military flights off southwestern Taiwan in recent days has prompted alarm from…

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite…

By DAVID McHUGH and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 130 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google is cracking down on digital ads promoting false climate change claims or being used to make…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland has joined other Nordic countries in suspending or discouraging the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in…

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — A federal official says a former neighbor of a U.S. Postal Service worker in Pennsylvania confessed that he fatally…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police say that at least 187 people including babies have been freed in the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June now have their names. The female is Lei Lei,…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A court in Istanbul has again ruled to keep a leading philanthropist and civil rights…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Pakistan have held difficult talks over the path forward in Taliban-ruled…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s foreign minister says concerns about a “new Cold War” over science and…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces are casting ballots, two days before the rest of the nation votes in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police have confiscated a high-performance luxury car after its new owner was caught speeding as he drove it home…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, KIKO ROSARIO and VANESSA GERA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called for a new national system to manage…

By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer There aren’t too many announcer/analyst teams that get to reach 100 games together, but Fox’s Gus Johnson and Joel…

BEIJING (AP) — China saw a major dip in travel over the past week’s National Day vacation. People staying home appeared to have chosen the…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An energy crisis is looming over India as coal stockpiles grow perilously low, adding to…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs begin voting in a parliamentary election with polls showing Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) — Israel is holding the remains of dozens of Palestinians killed over the course of the…