AP VoteCast: Voters sour on state of nation

Voters made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate.

Brazil voters ignore Bolsonaro's city election endorsements

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has suffered a setback as most of the dozens of candidates he backed for municipal elections failed to secure victories or spots in runoffs.

Peru now has no president as crisis takes chaotic turn

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Who is the president of Peru? The answer to that question Monday was no one.

Dutch prosecutors: Saudi embassy shooting had terror motive

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors said Monday that the shooting last week targeting the Saudi Arabian embassy building in The Hague was carried out with a “terrorist" motive.

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Lawyer: Toronto van attack suspect didn't know he was wrong

TORONTO (AP) — The lawyer for a man who admits using a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto said Monday that the defendant has autism spectrum disorder and didn’t know what he was doing was wrong.

Texas man sentenced for death of 2 Kansas carnival vendors

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the slayings of a Kansas couple who were killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious carnival…

Retirees protest Belarus leader on 100th day since vote

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Crowds of retirees marched Monday in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, marking 100 days since mass protests began and became an almost-daily feature of life in the country after authoritarian Pr…

NATO, acting US Pentagon chief discuss Afghanistan

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has spoken to the new acting U.S. defense secretary about the alliance’s commitment to stay in Afghanistan as long as necessary, his spokeswoman said Monday, …

Migrant arrivals putting pressure on Spain's Canary Islands

MADRID (AP) — Spanish rescue services have located 1,300 migrants in four days in the Atlantic Ocean and transferred them to the southern Canary Islands, further straining local emergency response capabilities as m…

Email: 65 virus cases, with 1 cluster, in WHO Geneva staff

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters, including at least one cluster of infections, an internal email obtained by The Associated…

Mexico explains decision to flood poor, Indigenous areas

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he had to face a tough decision on whether to allow a big city to be flooded, or to direct excess water to poorer, more sparsely populate…

Case dismissed against lawmaker accused of damaging monument

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia dismissed charges on Monday that were filed against a prominent Black state senator after police said that she and others conspired to damage a Confederate monument in the…

Greece: Bishop's death revives debate on communion safety

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A senior clergyman in Greece’s Orthodox Church was buried Monday after dying of COVID-19, reviving a debate over the safety of receiving communion before the Christmas season.