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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Bowing — if only for a moment — to pressure from lawmakers, critics, the media and child development…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Nearly nine months have passed since the riot at the U.S. Capitol, and federal agents…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press ABU SNAN, Israel (AP) — Arab citizens of Israel are seeking to raise awareness about the spiraling rate of violent…

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…