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ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic party won a tight race in…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after talks in…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit…

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe…

BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks using vehicles or knives. The…

KARTARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world are thronging a shrine to the founder of the Sikh religion,…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The separatist leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the…

Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police and demonstrators have scuffled again in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Officers moved before dawn…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has undergone a complex surgery in Iran…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have banned gatherings of five or more people in the capital ahead of a planned march by supporters of…

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, sparking criticism…

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The opposition leader in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland won last week’s election. The…

Associated Press VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia helped pulled U.S. stock indexes higher on Tuesday after they stumbled in the morning on worries about…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the…

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — What was expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades arrived Tuesday evening,…

Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A man convicted of human smuggling testified that he shuttled more than 500 Indian migrants across the…

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Extreme heat ruined the pineapples on Esther Penunia’s small farm in the Philippines this year, more…

Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The trial has begun for a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape him at a New…

Associated Press NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to…

Associated Press After being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight service members in Japan, the V-22 Osprey — a…

Associated Press CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling…

TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma.…

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media say numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central…

AP Travel Editor NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by…