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By KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The recent wave of protests against China’s anti-virus restrictions was a ray of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Friday that Western demands it should pull out completely from Ukraine as part of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The State Department says it has added four top commanders from a key anti-Pakistan militant group…

LONDON (AP) — Elton John is scheduled to perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June, in what organizers say will be his farewell show in Britain.…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Worries about inflation weighed on Wall Street Friday, leaving major indexes mixed after a report…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press MARTONVASAR, Hungary (AP) — Drivers in Hungary are increasingly running into gas and diesel shortages at filling…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With Ukraine scrambling to keep communication lines open during the…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA star Jeremy Lin, who plays for a Chinese team, was fined 10,000 yuan ($1,400) for…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A gay men’s choir in Colorado Springs is among a group of organizations…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) — A former coal-fired power plant in New Jersey will be imploded Friday morning, and its…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has warned an Australian audience that a Russian…

Associated Press Twitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David. It is the second time this…

By ZEKE MILLER and BILL BARROW Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — To help Democrats win their 51st Senate seat in a Georgia runoff election, President…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press CCONCHACCOTA, Peru (AP) — From her home under the baking sun of Peru’s southern Andes, Vilma Huamaní…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. team says evidence it collected in Iraq strengthens preliminary findings that…

By RAF CASERT and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union was edging closer to setting a $60-per-barrel price cap on…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Asia’s richest man, coal magnate Gautam Adani, made his vast fortune betting on…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has demanded neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers prevent terrorist attacks coming…