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BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has picked up for the second month in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s embattled prime minister is warning that the appointment of a new transitional government…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — At a training site in Ivory Coast, a Ghanaian officer says he has watched…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU, AAMER MADHANI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The East-West faceoff over Ukraine has…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has received no support from members of the U.N.…

By RAF CASERT, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S. and all 27 European Union member nations are ordering…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s main airport has retained its top place as the world’s busiest for…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities say Pakistan’s prime minister will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week as the prospect of a Russian…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A jury has been selected in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have rebounded after Wall Street slid amid anxiety over President Vladimir…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State group, is now free but many of its…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, HOPE YEN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vacant high-ranking positions across the…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon’s trip to China changed almost everything.…

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — About a thousand beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been reported stolen…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, TAMMY WEBBER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A prosecutor says three former Minneapolis police officers…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The just-concluded Winter Olympics aren’t China’s big event of the year. For the Communist…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan judges have sentenced a former high-level Sandinista official to 13 years in prison for “conspiracy to undermine…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand’s capital say a protester drove a car toward a police…

MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — Police believe a man told his 4-year-old child to fire at officers following a dispute over his order at a McDonald’s…