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Updated 2 weeks ago

The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday

The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Video: Officer running away while shooting man with knife

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a Black man during a domestic disturbance call, prompting street protests that led to vandalism in Pennsylvania.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Nvidia to buy UK chipmaker Arm from Softbank in $40B deal

LONDON (AP) — U.S. graphics chip maker Nvidia said it plans to buy U.K.-based Arm Holdings in a deal worth up to $40 billion, in a move that would create a global industry powerhouse.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lebanese Cabinet formation hits snags amid disagreements

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials held 11th-hour negotiations on Monday over the formation of a new government for the crisis-hit country, a process which hit snags over the weekend despite a looming deadline to del…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
US ambassador to China to step down next month

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China will step down early next month, ending a three-year tenure marked by a trade war and increasingly bitter relations between the world's two largest economies.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
UN atomic watchdog: Hopeful of greater trust with Iran

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations' atomic watchdog agency told board members on Monday he is hopeful Iran's decision to let inspectors in to two disputed sites could lead to greater trust with Tehran.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles), has broken off in the far north east Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid c…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Attack kills Turkish Red Crescent official in northern Syria

ISTANBUL (AP) — An attack in northern Syria on a Turkish Red Crescent vehicle killed a member of the aid agency and wounded another, the group said Monday.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
The Latest: Berlusconi released from COVID hospitalization

MILAN — Italy's former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been released from the hospital after a 10-day stay with COVID-19 and pneumonia, saying he had never feared as much for his life as from this “insidious” disease.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Berlusconi's back: Ex-Premier leaves hospital after COVID

ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has made a career out of bouncing back from setbacks, was released from the hospital Monday after an “insidious" bout of COVID-19 that he said was the most …

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Kremlin keeps its grip in elections, but critics make gains

MOSCOW (AP) — The main Kremlin party has retained its dominance in regional elections across Russia, but the opposition made gains in some areas in a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to earl…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Report: German soldier raided over plans to carry out attack

BERLIN (AP) — The German public broadcaster ARD reports that authorities in the northeast of the country have searched premises linked to a soldier suspected of planning an extremist attack.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Hurricane Paulette makes rare landfall in Bermuda as Cat 1

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Paulette made a rare landfall in Bermuda early Monday as a strong Category 1 storm just hours after the wealthy British territory shuttered schools, government agencies and ai…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EDT

Fires raise fight over climate change before Trump's visit

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Suga wins party vote, all but assuring election as Japan PM

TOKYO (AP) — Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan’s ruling party on Monday, all but assuring that he will become the country's new prime minister when a parliamentary election is held later in the we…