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Greek islanders strongly protest overcrowded refugee camps

ATHENS, Greece — Thousands of Greek residents and business owners joined a strike and protested Wednesday on the Greek islands hardest hit by migratio...
13:44 22 January 2022

Soccer players union promises to defend Olympic protesters

GENEVA — Soccer players who defy Olympic rules by making protest gestures at the 2020 Tokyo Games will be supported by their global union.
13:21 22 January 2022

Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather

SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running , California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn't spurred much tech ...
12:38 22 January 2022

Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary

WARSAW, Poland — Over the next several days, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the...
12:28 22 January 2022

Years after SARS, a more confident China faces a new virus

BEIJING — As a viral outbreak spread from the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week, the ruling Communist Party's political and legal affairs commis...
12:25 22 January 2022

Coco Gauff sets up Osaka showdown in Australia; Serena wins

MELBOURNE, Australia — Plenty was going badly for Coco Gauff in the second round of the Australian Open.
11:49 22 January 2022

Awake? Senators struggle to stay focused on impeachment

WASHINGTON — Adam Schiff was still speaking — about witnesses, documents, future presidents and the impeachment of President Donald Trump. He'd said i...
11:36 22 January 2022

Battle for India’s new citizenship law moves to top court

NEW DELHI — India's top court on Wednesday began hearing dozens of petitions seeking the revocation of amendments to the citizenship law following nat...
7:59 22 January 2022

China virus outbreak may wallop economy, financial markets

BANGKOK — News that a new virus that has afflicted hundreds of people in central China can spread between humans has rattled financial markets and rai...
7:41 22 January 2022

Ugly brawl breaks out at end of Kansas State-Kansas game

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Third-ranked Kansas and Kansas State ended their bitter showdown Tuesday night with a wild melee behind the basket that included punc...
2:14 22 January 2022

AP EXPLAINS: How India ended up in turmoil over citizenship

NEW DELHI — India has been embroiled in protests since December, when Parliament passed a bill amending the country's citizenship law. The new law pro...
1:07 22 January 2022

Virus prompts temperature checks, extra cleaning at airports

BEIJING — Many countries are checking the temperatures of arriving airline passengers and adopting precautionary quarantine procedures in response to ...
0:59 22 January 2022

At 90, Alaska Native woman is 1st counted in US Census

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud home...
0:57 22 January 2022

Dispute over rules erupts on impeachment’s first full day

WASHINGTON — A rancorous dispute over rules marked the first full day of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
0:48 22 January 2022

More US troops under medical evaluation after missile attack

WASHINGTON — Additional U.S. troops have been flown out of Iraq for closer evaluation of potential concussion injuries from the Iranian missile attack...
0:23 22 January 2022

Bloomberg calls for Trump’s removal in new impeachment ad

NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg launched a new impeachment-focused television ad Tuesday urging the Senate to remove Pr...
23:42 21 January 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Trump defense misrepresents Mueller findings

WASHINGTON — In opening arguments of the impeachment trial, President Donald Trump's defense misrepresented the findings of a special counsel's report...
23:33 21 January 2022

At Sundance, an annual rebirth for American movies

NEW YORK — The Sundance Film Festival, coming at the start of a new movie calendar, is an annual rite of renewal. New movies. New filmmakers. New voic...
23:10 21 January 2022

United Airlines boosts profit on more revenue, cheaper fuel

United Airlines reported Tuesday that higher revenue and cheaper fuel helped boost its fourth-quarter profit by nearly 40%, to $641 million.
22:43 21 January 2022

Trump in Davos: Talking up economy, brushing off impeachment

DAVOS, Switzerland —
22:38 21 January 2022

Neighbor wanted Hawaii cop killing suspect evicted years ago

HONOLULU — A next door neighbor of a handyman accused of stabbing a woman and killing two Hawaii police officers before setting his home and neighborh...
22:26 21 January 2022

The Latest: Prominent New Hampshire Democrat endorses Warren

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2020 presidential race (all times Eastern):
22:07 21 January 2022

Far from Senate, Biden largely avoids impeachment politics

AMES, Iowa — As the Senate begins President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Capitol Hill, Democrat Joe Biden is 1,000 miles away in Iowa, trying t...
21:50 21 January 2022

AP Was There: Census 2000 gets warm welcome in snowy Alaska

America’s decennial census begins Tuesday in rural Alaska, as it has out of tradition and necessity since the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in...
21:47 21 January 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Davos remarks rife with distortion

WASHINGTON — On a rarefied world stage in the Swiss Alps, President Donald Trump cited accomplishments on clean air that aren't real, a level of econo...
21:41 21 January 2022

Weinstein defense points to ‘loving emails’ as openings near

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein's lawyers want to use intimate emails from his accusers to try to convince jurors in his rape trial that any contact was c...
21:33 21 January 2022

Washington man is 1st in US to catch new virus from China

SEATTLE — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident w...
20:57 21 January 2022

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent...
20:51 21 January 2022

Pamela Anderson marries film producer Jon Peters

MALIBU, Calif. — Pamela Anderson has married movie producer Jon Peters.
19:42 21 January 2022

Supreme Court case looms large for rivals in abortion debate

Anti-abortion activists gather this week in Washington for their annual March for Life, eager to cheer on a continuing wave of federal and state abort...
19:24 21 January 2022