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By CHISATO TANAKA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On this Tax Day, refunds are looking a bit bigger for taxpayers. According to the latest IRS…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he will step down on May 15 after two decades at the helm and hand power to his…

By BARBARA SURK and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press French President Emmanuel Macron says world donors are pledging more than $2.1 billion in aid for…

By DEEPTI HAJELA and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re feeling — YAWN — sleepy or tired while you read this and…

SYDNEY (AP) — The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women. Ashlee Good died saving her wounded baby.…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — That Tanzanian government says that flooding in the country has killed 58 people in the last two weeks as heavy rains…

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two law enforcement officers were fatally shot while looking for a driver who fled a traffic stop in upstate…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly…

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after…

By THEODORA TONGAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A judge in Texas is set to hear arguments Monday in rap star Travis Scott’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s upcoming parliamentary election, set for Wednesday, follows a campaign…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the fatal shooting of a…

By MATTHEW LEE, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Iraq’s leader at the…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln…

By JOSH BOAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The…

By JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The historic hush money trial of Donald Trump…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler spent more time looking at his feet than any of the white leaderboards at…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms,…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities say a strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but there is no tsunami alert or…

A Native American-led nonprofit says it has purchased about 40 acres of land in South Dakota’s Black Hills area. The Cheyenne River Youth…