AP National News

By MAURO BUCCARELLO Associated Press LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — A rusty and overloaded fishing boat carrying 686 migrants has arrived at an Italian…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military junta has released a transitional charter that…

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — Lava flowing from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has picked up its pace on its…

ZHUHAI, China (AP) — A military drone whose manufacturer says it can cruise for 20 hours at 15,000 meters (50,000 feet) is among Chinese warplanes,…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France and Greece have announced a defense deal worth around 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion)…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Pressure is growing for a quick start to talks on Germany’s next government as newly elected…

BEIJING (AP) — Two American siblings have returned home after China lifted an exit ban following Canada’s release of a top Chinese tech…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As Europe’s economic powerhouse Germany embarks on the task of piecing together a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Police suspect an apartment building explosion in Sweden’s second-largest city might have…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Animal rights groups have welcomed the South Korean president’s offer to look into banning consumption of dog meat.…

By SALLY HO Associated Press More than a year after Black Lives Matter protests launched a worldwide reckoning about the centuries of racism that…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook removed a network of accounts that it said had spread…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 has struck the southern Greek island of Crete, a day after a…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s top diplomat has held a virtual meeting with NATO’s chief to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, amid longstanding…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The vaccination situation in Europe is a story of two regions. In some European Union…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s Expo 2020 opens this week, after being delayed for a year over the…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are trying to figure out, now that they are back in power in Afghanistan,…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Accusers and others demanding accountability for R&B superstar R. Kelly over allegations that…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are set to meet for the second and…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man already sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a massage business outside…

BEIJING (AP) — The World Bank has cut its economic growth forecast for developing countries in East Asia due to the impact of the coronavirus’s…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — The influential Murdaugh family is at the center of an unfolding drama in the tiny South…

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In their first congressional testimony on the tumultuous final months of…

By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two key Democratic senators are expected to meet with President Joe Biden at the…

By ERIKA KINETZ and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that far-right provocateurs are…

By ERIKA KINETZ and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that far-right provocateurs are…