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BERLIN – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday rejected criticism that Germany was not showing leadership in western efforts to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons to repel Russia’s invasion, saying that …

By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. – A drought-driven wildfire in northern New Mexico exploded into a “megafire” of 100,000 acres, or 157 square miles, on Saturday and could still more …

By Hamuda Hassan, Jorge Silva and Natalia Zinets DOBROPILLIA, Ukraine/KYIV – Russia carried out missile strikes across southern and eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, and some women and …

BEIJING – China’s financial hub of Shanghai has reined in COVID transmission risks at the community level, excluding cases in quarantine centres, with six of its 16 districts attaining zero-COVID …

By Rich McKay ATLANTA – Carrying signs decrying “racist traitors,” about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia’s Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return …

LONDON – The British Foreign Office said on Sunday Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social media and target politicians across …

RIO DE JANEIRO – Washington should make it clear to the “messianic” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine his country’s elections would trigger multilateral sanctions, a newly …

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES – Some 6 million residents of Southern California are being ordered to water their lawns and gardens no more than once a week, the Metropolitan …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three Florida correctional officers were ordered to be held without bond on Friday after they were charged with murder in the beating death of a inmate …

By Brenda Goh and Min Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING -Shanghai said on Saturday it had detected no new daily COVID-19 cases outside quarantine areas, marking a milestone in its battle to contain …

By Caroline Pailliez PARIS – Like quite a few on the left, 60-year-old nurse assistant Isabelle-Touria Boumhi says backing either Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential runoff …

By Leonardo Benassatto KYIV – Never mind forging swords into ploughshares; a Ukrainian businessman is turning scraps of wreckage from a downed Russian fighter plane into souvenir key fobs and …

SAO PAULO – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that demonstrations scheduled for Sunday are not meant as protest, but to show “the desire that everyone abides by the …

MARIUPOL, Ukraine – Residents of Mariupol recounted the horrors of the battle for their now devastated city this week as they sifted through the rubble for belongings, cooked meals by …

(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia is part of peace talks with Ukraine, but senior Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak denied that …

KYIV – Ukrainian police said on Saturday they had found the bodies of three civilian men in the Bucha district north of Kyiv, bound and in some cases gagged, with …

BATAJNICA, Serbia – Serbia on Saturday showed off its new Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles and other military hardware purchased from both Russia and the West, as the country seeks to perform …

THE HAGUE – Germany has filed a case against Italy at the highest U.N. court because Rome continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from the …

BEIJING – China’s Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the Omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the …

Biden Admin Says Oil Production Is At Historic Levels. But There’s One Problem Thomas Catenacci on April 29, 2022 Domestic crude oil production has sharply decreased for three consecutive months …

‘Ludicrous’: Buttigieg Watches As Manchin Throws Cold Water On Biden’s EV Dreams Thomas Catenacci on April 29, 2022 Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin slammed the Biden administration’s lofty electric …

By Andrew Hay MORA, N.M. -Firefighters in New Mexico failed on Friday to pin back the flames of the United States’ largest wildfire, which is burning perilously close to a …

By Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen NEW YORK -A New York judge expressed surprise on Friday that Donald Trump, a man he described as perhaps the world’s most famous real …