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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — While many companies are offering bonuses or higher pay as a way to lure and keep workers, a central Florida…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 is approaching 800,000 in the U.S., bringing an end to…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Second hand. Like new. Thrift. Buy Nothing. Gently used. There are lots of ways to describe…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s intelligence minister says Syria cannot be allowed to obtain chemical…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese’s alma mater, New York University, is establishing a film institute in his name…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have set fish catch quotas for next year in an attempt to protect fragile…

MILAN (AP) — Italian women are having dramatically fewer babies than ever during the pandemic, accentuating one of the world’s lowest birth…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An unvaccinated Greek commentator and publisher has died of respiratory failure and resulting complications from COVID-19.…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike in August that killed 10 members of…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and EVENS SANON Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — Authorities say at least 75 people were killed and dozens more…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading so rapidly…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia as traders await the outcome of the last Federal Reserve meeting of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of a new expert panel advising the German government on the coronavirus pandemic are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Health ministry says that a Polish teenager who flew from Warsaw to China last week is continental…

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By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the country’s opposition leader to 18…

BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he has applied to be the next governor of…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks,…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police official says the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Serbia is taking a significant step toward joining the European Union. Belgrade opened talks Tuesday on a series of policies linked…

BEIJING (AP) — China has detected its second case of the omicron variant in a 67-year-old man who tested positive after more than two weeks of…

MADRID (AP) — A volcano that has been spewing lava in Spain’s Canary Islands for almost three months has fallen quiet. But scientists are warning…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The omicron variant is offering more hints about what it may have in store as it spreads…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s big fraud and embezzlement trial has suffered another delay. The tribunal…