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By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Senior politicians in Germany have expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Defense Ministry has used Twitter to offer a robust defense of the country’s submarine-making capabilities and to…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Hugh Evans started his fight against extreme poverty by mobilizing his friends when he was growing up in…

PARIS (AP) — A leading international economic watchdog is urging developed countries to put more effort into providing low-income countries with…

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press MILAN (AP) — PSA Peugeot’s takeover of Fiat Chrysler to form the world’s fourth-largest…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press LA LAGUNA, Spain (AP) — A new volcano erupting on the Spanish island of La Palma has drawn sightseers eager to take…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn and Emmy-winning writer-producer-actor Lena Waithe will…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s plans to “drastically” reduce the plastic in its Happy Meal toys worldwide by 2025. The…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch king has outlined a pared-back government plan for the coming year in the…

LONDON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson says a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response months after people…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet The pandemic isn’t crushing the entrepreneurial spirit. It’s fueling it. People normally tied to a desk or working…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Energy officials from Qatar and Turkey, two long-standing foes of the United…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has agreed to give financial support to a U.S. firm that produces much of the…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The Kosovo-Serbia border was blocked for a second day by ethnic…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly lower after major indexes ended mixed on Wall Street. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the…

By JULIE WATSON, JUAN A. LOZANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a…

By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A European Parliament trade official says Australia’s cancellation of a French…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, will resume exports and…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer A ransomware attack has forced a cooperative of Iowa corn and soy farmers to take their computer systems offline.…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are scrambling to find jobs, food and housing…