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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have adopted a series of amendments to a draft law on online child pornography as they try to find a balance between protecting children and protecting privacy. Under the the draft position adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users. It’s the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine. A magistrate at Moscow’s Tagansky district court on Tuesday fined Google about $164,200

By SIBI ARASU The Associated Press Countries’ climate action plans are still far behind what’s needed to curb human-caused warming and limit the devastating effects of extreme heat, storms and droughts, but some nations have taken marginal steps toward slashing emissions, a United Nations analysis of national plans found Tuesday. The report looked into the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved changes to the law that governs presidential elections putting new restrictions on media coverage, according to local news agencies. The changes, reported Tuesday, come ahead of the election to be held in March in which Putin, who has ruled Russia for the last 24 years, is

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Guyana has urged judges at the United Nations’ highest court to call a halt to parts of a Venezuelan referendum about a territorial dispute between the South American neighbors. Guyana representatives have called the planned vote an “existential threat” designed to pave the way for

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies. Tuesday’s Lancet’s annual Countdown on climate and health found more elderly dying because of

By SETH BORENSTEIN and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government report says. The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every four to five years, was released Tuesday with details that

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s cybersecurity agency says artificial intelligence poses a threat to the country’s next national election. The National Cyber Security Center also says cyberattacks by hostile countries and their proxies are proliferating and getting harder to track. The center said Tuesday in its annual review that “this year has seen the emergence of

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President George Weah’s quest for a second term faces a close runoff vote on Tuesday. The second round of balloting comes after Weah and main challenger Joseph Boakai finished within a percentage point of each other in the first round. Weah, a former international

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China, Iran and a multitude of Arab nations condemned an Israeli minister’s statement that a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was an option in the Israel-Hamas war, calling it a threat to the world. At Monday’s long-planned opening of a United Nations conference whose

By NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military raided Gaza’s largest hospital early Wednesday, conducting what it called a targeted operation against Hamas as troops seized broader control of northern Gaza, including capturing the territory’s legislature building and its police headquarters. In recent days,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s immigration minister says three murderers are among 81 foreigners recently released after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention in migrant centers was unconstitutional. The court hasn’t released the reasons behind its ruling last week that overturned a 2004 precedent. A legal rights center in

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares surged higher on Wednesday, cheered by a rally on Wall Street that was one of the best days of the year following a surprisingly encouraging report on inflation. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.8% to 33,293.67 as investors appeared to shrug off news that

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Rescuers are working around the clock Tuesday to remove debris to extract 40 workers who have been trapped for over two days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in northern India. Officials hope to extricate them in the next 24 hours. A 2.5-foot (0.76 meter)-wide steel pipe

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century contest. He managed to elbow out the iconic national bird, the kiwi, which came in second.

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At an age when many of his contemporaries have long since retired, King Charles III is not one to put his feet up. The king will mark his 75th birthday on Tuesday by highlighting causes close to his heart. With Queen Camilla at his side, Charles will

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Defense officials from South Korea, the United States and other nations have warned North Korea over its nuclear ambitions and threats. Their joint statement came after a meeting in Seoul involving U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik and officials

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says a stretch of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles that was burned in an act of arson does not need to be demolished, and that repairs will take an estimated three to five weeks. Newsom announced the finding Tuesday,

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer apologized Tuesday, echoing right-wing conspiracy theories to explain to jurors that he went to the Pelosis’ home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government