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A fan climbs on the fence in front of the Stade de France prior the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, in Saint Denis near Paris, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Police have deployed tear gas on supporters waiting in long lines to get into the Stade de France for the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid that was delayed by 37 minutes while security struggled to cope with the vast crowd and fans climbing over fences. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Macron 'sad and sorry' after Champions League final chaos

Jun. 01, 2022 09:02 AM EDT

FILE - Yasuhiro Yamashita, President of the Japanese Olympic Committee, poses for photographers prior to a press conference Monday, June 28, 2021, in Tokyo, ahead of the opening of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 23. Japan announced Friday, Dec. 24, 2021, it won't send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott the games to protest China's human rights conditions. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, Kazuyuki Mori, the president of the Japan Paralympic Committee, and Yamashita will attend. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Japan won't send government delegation to Beijing Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi Dec. 23, 2021 11:39 PM EST

A crow perches on a light pole near the statue of the Olympics rings in Tokyo on Thursday, July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
3 Samoan weightlifters to miss Olympics over virus concerns

By Steve Mcmorran Jul. 01, 2021 08:19 PM EDT

Puerto Rico to receive nearly $4B in US pandemic funds

By Dánica Coto Jun. 28, 2021 06:09 AM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Monday that Puerto Rico will receive nearly $4 billion in federal education pandemic...

Spain to allow fans back into stadiums next season

Jun. 24, 2021 10:19 AM EDT
MADRID (AP) — Spain will be closer to normal when it comes to allowing fans into stadiums next season, the government said Thursday. The...

Cyprus gets new health minister in government mini-reshuffle

Jun. 22, 2021 10:33 AM EDT
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ president on Tuesday appointed an economics professor as the country’s new health minister, after his predecessor asked to leave...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, chairs the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 20, 2021. Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting on Sunday since swearing in his new coalition government with a condemnation of the newly elected Iranian president, whom he called “the hangman of Tehran.” (Emmanuel Dunand/Pool Photo via AP)
Israel launches official probe into deadly festival stampede

Jun. 20, 2021 08:30 AM EDT

Residents receive shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine during a coronavirus vaccination campaign in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
WHO warns of fresh Indonesia surge fed by virus variants

By Niniek Karmini Jun. 17, 2021 04:59 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 1, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden walks down the stairs of Air Force One with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge as he arrives in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FIle)
Cabinet secretaries launch roadshow to sell the Biden plan

By Ashraf Khalil Jun. 14, 2021 12:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2021, file photo, demonstrators gather on the steps of the Montana State Capitol protesting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Helena, Mont. Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill Friday, May 7, 2021, banning transgender athletes from participating in school and university sports according to the gender with which they identify, making Montana one of several Republican-controlled states to approve such measures in 2021. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)=MTHEL
In US, Pride Month festivities muted by political setbacks

By David Crary Jun. 11, 2021 10:05 AM EDT

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato speaks during a committee at the lower house in Tokyo, Friday, June 11, 2021. Kato told a regular news conference Friday that “Japan’s position is to maintain relations with Taiwan as those of practical  and non-governmental” as stated in the 1972 Japan-China joint declaration. As China increases its influence in the region and tension rises, Taiwan has become a sensitive topic, especially as Japan, the U.S. and other democracies move closer to Taipei. (Toshiyuki MatsumotoKyodo News via AP)
Japan says ties with Taiwan are only unofficial

By Mari Yamaguchi Jun. 11, 2021 12:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 file photo, Dominic Cummings Chief Adviser to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives in Downing Street in London. Britain’s High Court has ruled that the U.K. government acted unlawfully in awarding a contract to a company run by friends of the former top adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A judge ruled Wednesday, June 9, 2021 that a June 2020 decision by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove to pay more than 500,000 pounds ($700,000) to market research firm Public First “gave rise to apparent bias and was unlawful.”(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
UK court rules government acted unlawfully in contract award

By Pan Pylas Jun. 09, 2021 07:36 AM EDT

Beshear announces change atop Kentucky Labor Cabinet

By Bruce Schreiner Jun. 08, 2021 01:02 AM EDT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The longtime state executive who inherited oversight of Kentucky's beleaguered unemployment insurance system during the COVID-19 pandemic...

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters smash a bank widow during protests against the Lebanese central bank's governor and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Lebanon. The World Bank said in a report released on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, that Lebanon's severe economic and financial crisis is likely to rank as one of the worst the world has seen in more than 150 years. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
World Bank: Lebanon's crisis among world's worst since 1850s

By Bassem Mroue Jun. 01, 2021 05:46 AM EDT

Migrants from Honduras wait in a Border Patrol truck after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, May 17, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. The Biden administration has agreed to let up to about 250 people a day in the United States at border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge, part of negotiations to settle a lawsuit over pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a right to apply for asylum, an attorney said Monday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
US eases asylum restrictions at border amid legal challenges

By Elliot Spagat And Adriana Gomez Licon May. 18, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

Members stand in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, London, for the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II at the State Opening of Parliment, Tuesday May 11, 2021. (Aaron Chown/Pool via AP)
British PM seeks to bolster economy, union in new parliament

By Danica Kirka May. 11, 2021 05:19 AM EDT

Manchester City's Aymeric Laporte, center, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the English League Cup final soccer match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
British government in talks over venue switch for CL final

May. 09, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

State agency drops use of messaging app that raised concerns

May. 07, 2021 11:41 AM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department has stopped using a secure messaging app that raised concerns that material might...

Slovakia Prime Minister Eduard Heger, addresses lawmakers in the parliament in Bratislava, Tuesday May 4, 2021. Eduard Heger's Cabinet obtained a vote of confidence from Parliament on Tuesday. (Jakub Kotian / TASR via AP)
Slovakia's new government wins mandatory confidence vote

May. 04, 2021 06:35 AM EDT

Mourners carry the body of Menachem Knoblowitz, 21, from the United States, who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, at his funeral in Jerusalem on Saturday, May 1 2021. A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed dozens of people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
10 boys and teens among the dead in Israel festival stampede

May. 01, 2021 11:29 AM EDT