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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A local official in Kenya says seven people are dead after their boat capsized on Lake Victoria. The Homa Bay county…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former school principal who was extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle was ordered to stand trial on 70…

By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK , Iceland (AP) — Climate change is top of the agenda when voters in Iceland head to the polls for…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan officials say the island has applied to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group. That sets up a potential clash with…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s election campaign has largely focused on the three candidates hoping to succeed…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press OEIRAS, Portugal (AP) — As Portugal nears its goal of fully vaccinating 85% of the population against COVID-19 in…

By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — There was a time not long ago when uprisings and wars in the Arab world topped the agenda at the U.N.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid concerns over troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande and…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As residents across the Northeast U.S. recover from the catastrophic…

By NOAH BERGER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — A man and his daughter are bringing donated motorhomes to people who have lost everything in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Pakistan’s top diplomat has some ideas from his country on how to engage the new…

By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional Democrats say they and the White House have agreed to a…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The delta variant is causing a surge in infections among kids in the U.S. and elsewhere, but experts say there…

By JUAN A. LOZANO, MARIA VERZA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A confluence of factors caused the sudden arrival of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency says 16 million people in Yemen are marching toward…

By PIA SARKAR Associated Press The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile added another trophy to her…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Robert Gentile, a mobster who for years denied suspicions from authorities that he knew anything about artwork stolen in a…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A foreign business group in China says the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to tighten control…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A mother is upset with an Indiana school after a staff member gave a haircut to her son who is autistic. Jonathan Battle-Hayum,…

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A white man convicted of the apparently random killing of a Black men has been found dead shortly after being transferred to a…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for several Arizona abortion providers urged a federal judge Wednesday to block a…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three people have been indicted in a multi-state conspiracy involving the forced labor of Mexican agricultural immigrants. A…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have accused an alleged top Mexican drug cartel lieutenant of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine,…