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By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake has shaken parts of Indonesia’s main island…

By ULIANA PAVLOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish and Armenian envoys have met in Moscow to try to end decades of…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong International Airport is banning transit passengers from 150 countries and territories…

BEIJING (AP) — China is dismissing a warning from Britain’s domestic intelligence service to lawmakers that a London-based lawyer is trying to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire  that erupted during maintenance work at a major oil refinery in Kuwait has killed two workers and…

BEIJING (AP) — China is tightening its anti-pandemic measures in Beijing and across the country as scattered outbreaks continue ahead of the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has strongly repeated its demand that NATO doesn’t expand eastward despite the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Health Ministry says more than 500,000 people have received a 4th vaccine dose. The country began administering second…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A top military chief in Sweden said Friday that they are seeing increased Russian activity in the Baltic Sea which “deviate from…

By NICK PERRY and STEVE McMORRAN Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The treatment of tennis star Novak Djokovic by Australian…

By YURAS KARMANAU, FRANK BAJAK, ERIC TUCKER and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hackers have temporarily shut down dozens of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson’s office has apologized to the royal family for a lockdown-breaching staff parties…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party says a top official in the southern region of Guangxi is under investigation for corruption.…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Novak Djokovic’s attempt to stave off deportation and be allowed to play in the Australian Open despite not…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government minister who decided to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa to enter the country says he did…

By ACHALA PUSSALLA Associated Press PALLAKKADU, Sri Lanka (AP) — Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open…

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aisha Visram became the first woman to work on the bench of an NHL regular-season game in any…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of devout Hindus are taking a holy dip into the frigid waters of the…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s popular monarch Queen Margrethe is marking 50 years on the throne with…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy, Spain and other European countries are reinstating or stiffening mask mandates as…