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TOKYO -- President Joe Biden said Monday the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, declaring the commitment to protect the island is …
by The Associated Press May 24, 2022KYIV, Ukraine -- A captured Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison -- the maximum…
by The Associated Press May 24, 2022MARIA CHENG
by The Associated Press May 24, 2022DAVOS, Switzerland-- Davos -- the hub of an elite annual gathering in the Swiss Alps -- is back, more than two years after the coronavirus pandemic kept its bu…
by The Associated Press May 23, 2022HELSINKI -- Russia halted gas exports to neighboring Finland on Saturday, a highly symbolic move that came just days after the Nordic country announced it want…
by The Associated Press May 22, 2022CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's center-left opposition party toppled the conservative government after almost a decade in power, and Prime Minister-elect An…
by The Associated Press May 22, 2022POKROVSK, Ukraine -- Concern mounted Saturday over Ukrainian fighters who became prisoners at the end of Russia's brutal three-month siege in Mariupol, as a Mo…
by The Associated Press May 22, 2022MILAN -- Edoardo Ronzoni inspects a construction site near Milan that he shut down in March as costs for materials skyrocketed. He can't complete a half-built …
by The Associated Press May 22, 2022US, South Korea open to expanded military drills to deter North
by The Associated Press May 22, 2022PYEONGTAEK, South Korea -- President Joe Biden opened his trip to Asia on Friday by touring a South Korean computer chip factory that will be the model for a p…
by The Associated Press May 21, 2022LONDON -- Scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa say they are baffled by the disease's recent spread in Europe and North Ameri…
by The Associated Press May 21, 2022POKROVSK, Ukraine -- Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-…
by The Associated Press May 21, 2022KYIV, Ukraine -- Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol's pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday, …
by The Associated Press May 19, 2022KYIV, Ukraine -- Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighter…
by The Associated Press May 18, 2022KYIV, Ukraine -- The regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine's last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol declared its mission complete Monda…
by The Associated Press May 17, 2022