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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A powerful winter storm has swept through northern Europe over the weekend. At least four people…

By JIM HEINTZ and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is working to ramp up diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press RAYONG, Thailand (AP) — Favorable wind and sea conditions are keeping an oil slick away from beaches in eastern…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French left is running divided and weakened ahead of this year’s presidential vote in…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party has won a third straight general election,…

By JILL LAWLESS and JO KEARNEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Bad news for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been good news for political…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and U.S officials have threatened Russia with financial sanctions carrying…

By MARK PRATT and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The sun was shining on much of the East Coast on Sunday, a day after a vicious…

BEIJING (AP) — An official measure of manufacturing activity in China showed weaker growth in January while a private survey showed a contraction…

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Seven people have been hospitalized in critical condition Saturday after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a…

VIENNA (AP) — Germany’s Greens party has elected a new leadership team that has vowed to continue fighting for the party’s core issues,…

BANGKOK (AP) — The governor of a province in eastern Thailand has declared a state of emergency after an oil slick washed up on a sand beach,…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A 50-year-old bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh had been rated as poor on a recent inspection report. But…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly empowered Republican lawmakers in Virginia who opposed legalizing simple possession of…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Hundreds of people have protested in Amsterdam in a #MeToo demonstration sparked by allegations of sexual impropriety linked to a…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has fired the head of the Turkish Statistical Institute, which is responsible for posting official inflation…