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By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of three men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery has…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said a booster dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine “can be considered” in people aged 18 and…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita Republican who once was one of the Kansas Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator and a Nashville social club owner have…

By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Monday’s military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A senior energy adviser to President Joe Biden urged Russia to supply more natural gas…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão has said that the government will accelerate its…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of more than two dozen American hostages and wrongful detainees held overseas are…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy,…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has accused Israel of carrying out an attack in the country’s south, without offering details. A war monitor said an…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has launched a digital currency which the Central Bank of Nigeria says is a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of scientists and ocean life advocates says a type of whale that is one of the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says diplomatic efforts to get Iran back to nuclear negotiations are…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rare demonstrations in support of Myanmar’s military-installed government have been held in several…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press President Joe Biden and the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians discussed ways to fight climate change,…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional government has ordered an envoy of the 15-nation West African regional…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nine EU countries, including heavyweight Germany, have joined forces to say they will not…

LONDON (AP) — The British government is looking to give millions of low-pay workers an inflation-busting pay increase next year. The government…

By AUDREY HOROWITZ Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court has ordered a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials say a target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — People in Estonia no longer can use negative test results to obtain the coronavirus certificates needed to attend…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first 100 winners of an initiative to nurture talented teens worldwide have been named.…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW (AP) — A European Union official has said that there is “no place for rhetoric referring to war” among…