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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court says it will take up a petition seeking prosecution of several saffron-robed…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MUREHWA, Zimbabwe (AP) — The number of pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe rose dramatically during…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — The omicron variant of the coronavirus has swept across Australia despite its high vaccination…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MUREHWA, Zimbabwe (AP) — The number of pregnancies among girls and teenagers in Zimbabwe rose dramatically during…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HONOLULU (AP) — The Sony Open is a reunion of sorts for three No. 1 amateur players in the world. The mentor is…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese minister assigned the task of containing COVID-19 while steering the world’s third…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean rescuers have resumed their search for six missing construction workers believed to be trapped at a…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after the latest report of surging prices in the U.S. appeared to…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice continues to experience moderate symptoms of COVID-19 a day…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Twin panda cubs have made their first public appearance before devoted fans in Tokyo, but they will…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Novak Djokovic’s bid to get around rules requiring players at the Australian Open to be vaccinated against…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 surge caused by the omicron variant means once-reliable indicators of the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A judge has heard arguments from lawyers for Michigan’s former health director who wants…

BEIJING (AP) — The northern Chinese city of Tianjin has ordered a second round of COVID-19 testing of all 14 million residents after dozens of…

By EDNA TARIGAN and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has kicked off a COVID-19 booster campaign for the general…

By JOHN PYE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has acknowledged that his Australian travel declaration…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China have blocked the U.N. Security Council from supporting new sanctions on…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has made the reporting of rapid antigen test results mandatory as it experienced…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The children of a deceased man who said he was molested as a child by a priest have sued the…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A conversation between a pair of Australian TV anchors criticizing Novak Djokovic and discussing his visa saga has gone…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota attorney general’s office and the lawyer for billionaire banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer China is blocking more than a dozen U.S. airline flights to the country because some passengers on recent flights…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say a medical transport plane struck power lines in cloudy weather before it crashed last month near…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a successful flight test of a hypersonic…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A formal challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s qualifications to run for Congress has been delayed while…