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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, India's Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, left, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar address a press conference announcing new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites in New Delhi, India. The standoff between the Indian government and Twitter escalated Wednesday, June 16, when the country’s technology minister accused the social media giant of deliberately not complying with local laws. Prasad said Twitter has chosen “the path of deliberate defiance” when it comes to following new internet regulations that digital activists have said could curtail online speech and privacy in India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
India says Twitter knowingly not complying with local laws

By Sheikh Saaliq Jun. 16, 2021 04:09 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Before the Supreme Court this is week is an argument over whether public schools can discipline students over something they say off-campus. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Wary Supreme Court weighs student's Snapchat profanity case

By Mark Sherman Apr. 28, 2021 03:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Before the Supreme Court this is week is an argument over whether public schools can discipline students over something they say off-campus. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Student's Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case

By Mark Sherman Apr. 26, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

A Hispanic farm worker receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Mecca, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. The farmworkers who got their shots are among the millions of immigrants around the United States, who advocacy groups warn may be some of the most difficult people to reach during the largest vaccination campaign in American history. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Language barriers, wariness make vaccinating immigrants hard

Eugene Garcia, Suman Naishadham And Anita Snow Jan. 22, 2021 02:19 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh paces the sideline during the second half of the Citrus Bowl NCAA college football game against Alabama in Orlando, Fla. Michigan has decided to stick with Harbaugh. He has finalized a new, five-year deal with a base salary of $4 million per year. He can make as much as $8 million with incentives, according to a person familiar with the contract who spoke to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
Harbaugh adds Linguist, Helow to Michigan's defensive staff

Jan. 20, 2021 09:06 PM EST

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, in Washington. The committee summoned the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google to testify during the hearing. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Social media CEOs rebuff bias claims, vow to defend election

By Marcy Gordon Oct. 28, 2020 12:28 PM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, April 3, 2020 file photo, a worker in protective gear moves a casket of a Covid-19 deceased at the Pontes crematorium and funeral center in Wilrijk, Belgium. This week news struck that the European Center for Disease Control has put Belgium at the largest number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 citizens, surpassing the Czech Republic, it is revealed Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
Divided Belgium among Europe's worst virus hotspots

By Raf Casert Oct. 28, 2020 04:12 AM EDT

Belgium's new Prime Minister Alexander De Croo arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. European Union leaders are meeting to address a series of foreign affairs issues ranging from Belarus to Turkey and tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. (John Thys, Pool via AP)
De Croo sworn in as Belgian premier, rushes to EU summit

By Raf Casert Oct. 01, 2020 11:07 AM EDT

Belgian Minister of Cooperation Development and Finance, Alexander De Croo speaks during a media conference at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Almost 500 days after Belgian parliamentary elections, seven parties from both sides of the linguistic border have agreed on forming a fully functioning majority government that will center on dealing with the pandemic and its devastating economic impact. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
7 parties agree on Belgian government led by Liberal De Croo

By Raf Casert Sep. 30, 2020 01:22 AM EDT

Judge orders ex-CIA officer detained in China spy case

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Aug. 27, 2020 05:16 PM EDT
HONOLULU (AP) — A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of selling U.S. secrets to China must remain locked up because he's a “serious...

FILE - This Sept. 20, 2013 file photo shows an aerial view of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. The Mexican coastal city pulled a pair of controversial video ads Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, touting the faded resort’s reputation as an “anything goes” tourism destination because they weren't appropriate during the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
Bad week for Mexico tourism capped by mis-translations

By Mark Stevenson Aug. 07, 2020 09:50 PM EDT

Stephen Donelson, left, smiles as he walks up his driveway to his home accompanied by his wife, Terri, in Midlothian, Texas on Friday, June 19, 2020, after his 90-day stay in the Zale Hospital on the UT Southwestern Campus. Donelson’s family hadn’t left the house in two weeks after COVID-19 started spreading in Texas, hoping to shield the organ transplant recipient. Yet one night, his wife found him barely breathing, his skin turning blue, and called 911. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans

By Lauran Neergaard And Nicole Winfield Jul. 29, 2020 01:07 AM EDT

Terri Donelson and her husband, Stephen, right, are greeted by friends, family and neighbors after his arrival at his home in Midlothian, Texas on Friday, June 19, 2020. A trick doctors around the world shared with each other: Flip COVID-19 patients over from their backs to their stomach. It’s called proning and it takes pressure off the lungs, which lie closer to the back. Donelson stayed on his belly about 16 hours a day early on, as his doctors watched his oxygen levels improve. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans

By Lauran Neergaard And Nicole Winfield Jul. 29, 2020 01:05 AM EDT

US government officials tell AP that Russia is using 3 English-language websites to spread coronavirus disinformation

Jul. 28, 2020 05:01 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — US government officials tell AP that Russia is using 3 English-language websites to spread coronavirus disinformation. ...

FILE - In this May 17, 2020 file photo, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, joins in a protest against the Supreme Court and Brazil's National Congress, in Brasilia, Brazil. A profanity-laced video showing Bolsonaro expressing frustration at his inability to get information from police and vowing to change Cabinet ministers if needed to protect his family was released Friday, May 22, 2020, at the order of a Supreme Court justice in a new blow to a president whose popularity has been sagging. (AP Photo/Andre Borges, File)
Video of Cabinet meeting puts Brazil's Bolsonaro under fire

By Mauricio Savarese May. 22, 2020 07:24 PM EDT

In this April 13, 2020 photo, Tariq al-Obeid, displaced from the eastern countryside of Idlib, Syria, shows a lesson for his children on a mobile phone in Kelly, a town in northern Idlib. Al-Obeid received the education material from a teacher on a private WhatsApp group. As the world moves online, the Syrians in opposition-held areas are too. In the time of coronavirus, the internet is becoming an educational tool, and one to salvage bonds essential for surviving the brutal conflict. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Online English classes revive ties severed by war in Syria

By Sarah El Deeb May. 17, 2020 02:09 AM EDT