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As bullets and bombs fall in Ukraine, Russia is waging an expanding information war throughout Eastern Europe, using fake accounts and propaganda to spread fears about refugees and rising fuel prices while calling the West an untrustworthy ally. In Bulgaria, the Kremlin paid journalists...

Bulgaria's president launched talks on Friday with all political parties represented in parliament to see if there was still a chance to form a government and avoid another early election. President Rumen Radev is trying to prevent Bulgaria from sliding into new political turmoil after the two...

UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer care-providing businesses to a better-than-expected second quarter. The health care giant said a nearly 9% surge in Medicare Advantage customers pushed its total enrollment past...

Miami police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing Friday morning. According to authorities, Zahrya Teart was last seen around 12:50 a.m. in the city’s Model City neighborhood. Police said Teart was last seen wearing a crop top jacket, dark jeans and gray and white...

Are you registered to vote? Time is running out if you are not. Florida’s primary election takes place on Aug. 23. And in order to cast your ballot, you must be registered to vote before July 25, which is right around the corner. You also need to remember that Florida is a closed primary...

Tens of thousands of Iraqis attended a mass prayer in a Baghdad suburb on Friday called for by an influential Shiite cleric, sparking fears of instability amid a deepening political crisis that has followed the country's national elections. Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr arrived in the capital...

Whether Joe Biden’s first trip to the Middle East as president ends a success or a failure may hinge on what happens when the American leader first locks eyes with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The world will be watching the highly anticipated meeting Friday to see if the...

The European Union's executive intensified its legal standoff with Hungary on Friday by taking the country to the EU's highest court over a restrictive law on LGBT issues and media freedom. The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that bans content portraying or...

Police have arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with a violent attack that was caught on camera this week at a UPS Store. “Honestly, I thought he was going to shoot me -- that was the only thing going through my mind,” the victim said. “That was the only thing going through my mind -- not...

Family members of school shooting victims are sending a message to lawmakers, hitting the road to push for more gun control. A fleet of 52 empty school buses was seen traveling across Texas this week in a mile-long convoy. The empty seats onboard represent the nearly 4,400 children who would...

A court in Russia's far east on Friday handed a rare acquittal to a feminist artist who was charged with disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online depicting female bodies. The charges against activist Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, in the far eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur had...

Italy entered into days of political and financial uncertainty Friday as Premier Mario Draghi weighed his options and political leaders considered theirs after coalition ally the 5-Star Movement sparked a crisis by withholding support on a government-sponsored bill. On the immediate horizon are...

A German court on Friday convicted a military officer who posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker and was accused of plotting to kill prominent politicians and blame the attack on refugees, sentencing him to 5½ years in prison. The Frankfurt state court convicted the defendant of preparing a serious...

A thousand firefighters with 10 water-dumping planes struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwest France that have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people and ravaged pine forests near the Atlantic coast. High temperatures and strong winds have complicated...

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris in a central Ukrainian city on Friday looking for people still missing after a Russian missile strike a day earlier that killed at least 23 people. Russian forces, meanwhile, pounded other sites in a painstaking push to wrest territory from...

American basketball star Brittney Griner faced a Russian court again on Friday as her drug possession trial resumed after she pleaded guilty to the charges. Griner's defense lawyers presented evidence that the basketball player received permission from Arizona health authorities to use cannabis...

European shares opened higher Friday after a mixed session in Asia following a report that China’s economy contracted by 2.6% in the last quarter due to virus shutdowns that kept businesses closed and people at home. Stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai fell while most other benchmarks advanced...

Cariol Horne started her morning outside the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, placing white roses at a colorful memorial to the 10 Black people slain there two months ago by a white gunman. Across the fenced-off parking lot, the supermarket chain's president and employees were preparing to lead...

The Latest on U.S. President Joe Biden's trip to the Mideast: JERUSALEM — About two dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators have gathered in east Jerusalem ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to a local hospital. The protesters on Friday are holding Palestinian flags and posters of Shireen...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited the northwestern Xinjiang region this week amid concerns over China’s detention of a million or more members of primarily Muslim ethnic native minorities. Xi called Xinjiang a “core area and a hub” in China’s program of building ports, railways and power...