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MADRID (AP) — The leader of Catalonia in northeastern Spain has announced that it’s excluding a separatist party in his ruling regional coalition…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government is slashing energy taxes and imposing a temporary windfall tax on the gains of energy…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been hospitalized while predecessor Vaclav Klaus is undergoing tests at the same hospital. The…

PARIS (AP) — Bordeaux, the French city that was a transit station in the slave trade, feared racism was behind the disfiguring of an African slave…

BERLIN (AP) — German police are investigating the source of a balloon that caused a massive blackout in and around the eastern city of Dresden.…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has elevated its top marketing officer to CEO as it…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The slaughter of 1,428 white-sided dolphins as part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. government figures show that the number of people on payroll in Britain has soared back to levels…

By SEAN PYLES of NerdWallet. How did you spend your “hot vax summer”? If you indulged in revenge shopping, dining and travel, your summer fun may…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government’s medical advisory body says booster shots of coronavirus vaccines should be given “with…

By PAN PYLAS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. plans to offer a third dose of coronavirus vaccines to everyone over 50 and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is delaying the start of post-Brexit border checks on food imports from the European…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate czar says the 27-nation bloc should ensure that the most…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawyers say a court in Myanmar has agreed to change the venue for the trial of an Australian…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is seeing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece have opened an investigation into the crash of…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is in self-isolation after people in his inner…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale found in 2008 is that of a…

By HUIZHONG WU and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court has ruled against a Chinese woman in a #MeToo case that wound through…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is forecast to reap record revenue from farming this year despite pandemic…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Norway’s Labor Party will start talks in an attempt to build a…

MADRID (AP) — Rain has helped to bring under control a major wildfire that ravaged 7,800 hectares (19,200 acres) of southern Spain despite more…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis is urging Slovakia’s Roma to integrate better into the…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s opposition leaders say the country’s ousted…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have compensated nearly 250 people who were prosecuted or investigated under a Nazi-era law criminalizing…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There were enough tennis stars inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Monday’s Met Gala,…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s leaders are anxiously watching the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, fearing that…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s competition watchdog says it plans to fine Google at least 207.4…