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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The U.S., Britain and Australia have announced they’re forming a new security…

PRAGUE (AP) — Hospitalized Czech President Milos Zeman has undergone medical checks that haven’t revealed any problems or disease that would…

BERLIN (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Germany said Thursday they have indicted four men on suspicion of supporting the Islamic extremist group…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Lawyers for a British woman sentenced to a four-month suspended sentence for making…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Voluntary euthanasia has become legal in a fifth Australian state, more than 20 years after the country repealed the…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — West African leaders have decided to impose travel bans and freeze financial assets of…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Human rights and refugee groups are appealing to the European Union to step up its help for people…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old boy has been detained in connection with a possible plan for an…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and BABA AHMED Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials say the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara died of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s Old Vic Theatre is reopening at full capacity for the first time since the pandemic…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s top legal adviser has…

By FADI TAWIL and BILAL HUSSEIN Associated Press AL-AIN, Lebanon (AP) — A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel has arrived from Syria to…

By FRANK JORDANS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations is calling for “immediate, rapid and…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has ruled that President Joko Widodo and six top officials have…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Environmentalists in Sri Lanka are challenging a court order that would allow…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has begun three days of voting for a new parliament that is unlikely to change the country’s…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press ATLIT, Israel (AP) — Israel’s just-retired navy chief says the military has stepped up its activities in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A month after the fall of Kabul, the question of how the world will help…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after a hodge-podge of economic data led Wall Street to close mostly lower.…

By SARAH RANKIN and STEVE HELBER Associated Press GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed over abortion…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom handily survived this week’s recall election that could…

By HAU DINH Associated Press VUNG TAU, Vietnam (AP) — The AP’s Hau Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort of Vung Tau in southern…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s long-suffering Republicans endured another embarrassing loss when…

Japan’s exports rose 26% in August from a year earlier, below analysts’ forecasts, as supply chain disruptions hit manufacturers.…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is…