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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is appointing a regional official as Germany’s new defense minister following the resignation of…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in…

By SUZAN FRASER and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors say that authorities have arrested a Syrian man who is suspected of having been a security chief…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady warned world leaders and corporate executives at the World…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her…

By ANISH BHATTARAI and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Human rights groups are urging Sri Lanka’s government to release a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A criminal trial is set to start in federal court for a northeastern Kansas man charged with…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen is seeing its longest-ever pause in fighting, more than nine months. Yemeni, Saudi and U.N.…

By MARC LEVY, BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Josh Shapiro has become the 48th governor of…

By AAMER MADHANI and MIKE CORDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that his country plans to “join”…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after Japan’s central bank kept its lax monetary…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — So much for notion that Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys might not be up to the challenge of…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi has denied allegations that she obtained a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate to…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say eight people were shot during an Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, with one of the victims listed in…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia who are among…