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A senior Serbian minister on Monday advocated the creation of a “Serbian world” that would unite all Serbs in the Balkans into a single state, rejecting a U.S. warning that such calls could fuel tensions in the still-volatile region rocked by bloody wars in the 1990s. “I dream of the...

Hundreds of Sri Lankans jostled Monday to use the vast array of exercise machines in the private gym of the presidential palace, lifting weights and running on treadmills inside a facility that was, until now, the exclusive domain of the country's beleaguered president. For many who had...

Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered “Funny Girl” this fall, an announcement made just hours after current star Beanie Feldstein revealed she was leaving the musical sooner than anticipated due to the show taking a "different direction.” The...

President Joe Biden will confront a kaleidoscope of challenges when he travels to the Middle East this week, his first trip there since taking office. With the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the rearview mirror, the United States is reassessing its role in the region at a time when its...

A federal prison guard and alleged supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro killed a local official from the leftist Workers’ Party in the Brazilian state of Parana, according to state police. The shooting death comes ahead of a highly polarized presidential election in October. On Saturday night...

Monty Norman, a British composer who wrote the theme tune for the James Bond films, has died. He was 94. A statement posted Monday on Norman’s official website said: “It is with sadness we share the news that Monty Norman died on 11th July 2022 after a short illness.” Born Monty Noserovitch to...

Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo is a protestant pastor who remains in jail in Cuba after being sentenced to seven years in prison for simply participating in the historic July 11 protests a year ago Monday. From Cuba, his wife told Local 10 News that since the 11th, life has been terrible. And Rosales...

Abortion rights are poised to come before Michigan voters in November after an abortion rights campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures Monday for a ballot initiative to the secretary of state’s office. The effort will further increase attention on Michigan's elections, where...

July 11 marks one year since the historic antigovernmental protests in Cuba and several events across South Florida are marking the anniversary with support for the Cuban people. “Today what we’re doing by raising that flag, we are sending a message that the fight isn’t over, yet,” said Manolo...

President Joe Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA’s new space telescope — the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the...

French lawmakers on Monday were debating a no-confidence motion that was requested by a leftist coalition to symbolically mark their opposition to the government and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies. The leftist coalition, known as Nupes, formally requested a no-confidence motion...

A 29-year-old woman was arrested Sunday at Miami International Airport after she illegally boarded a Spirit Airlines flight, authorities said. According to her arrest report, Skylar Shiffon Pollard, of Michigan, was late to her flight back to her home state and the flight was already closed for...

South Africa is reeling in shock from a spate of weekend bar shootings in which armed men burst into three taverns and opened fire indiscriminately, killing 21 people in total. Regional and ethnic rivalries, an organized crime extortion ring, competition between bar owners and political...

A heat wave was developing in California on Monday but winds were light as firefighters battled a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park. The Washburn Fire on the western flank of the Sierra Nevada had scorched about 3.6 square...

A Florida man is facing several charges after deputies said they used a taser to stop him as he tried to avoid arrest by fleeing on a riding lawn mower. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was trying to serve Dusty Mobley, 40, with arrest warrants Saturday morning and found him on the John...

So far this summer, the Gulf of Mexico has been exceptionally warm. Overall, the surface waters across the Gulf this July are running warmer than any other year in the past 41 years (since the collection of continuous satellite data), except for 2016. This is especially impressive considering...

If you missed last month’s supermoon, you have another chance. This month’s full moon is Wednesday. At the same time, the moon's orbit will bring it closer to Earth than usual. This cosmic combo is called a supermoon. That can make the moon appear slightly bigger and brighter, weather...

A shocking crime over the weekend left one South Florida neighborhood on edge. Detectives are looking into an apparent murder-suicide that left two people dead and another injured in Boca Raton. Officers responded to a home just after 3 p.m. Sunday. They said they found a mailbox in pieces...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — Jane Austen’s last completed novel “Persuasion” gets a fresh spin from British theater director Carrie Cracknell. Starring Dakota...

South Sudan's president ordered the suspension Saturday of all dredging-related activities in the country until evidence-based studies are carried out on their on surrounding communities and the ecosystems they rely on. Salva Kiir Mayardit's announcement, which was made during his address on...