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By The Associated Press Mikaela Shiffrin’s return from her downhill crash is still on schedule for this weekend in Sweden but the American standout might only enter one of the two World Cup races. Shiffrin’s team says “Mikaela is improving in slalom and feels that the slalom race is still realistic but the GS is

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion merger after a federal judge blocked the deal, ruling it would hurt competition. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the benefits of a combination, they felt they were unlikely to meet

By The Associated Press Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election. Nadezhdin, a city council member, was nominated by the Civic Initiative party to run in an election President Vladimir Putin is all but set to win. He has been vocal against the

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government that would include smaller parties as partners. Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal will remain the prime minister a year after he was elected to the office. Dahal has ended his partnership with the Nepali Congress party which

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press KUCOVE, Albania (AP) — NATO member Albania has inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance’s first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucove, 52 miles south of the capital Tirana. Officials said the new air base will serve as a

LONDON (AP) — British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago. The red Ferrari F512M was one of two sports cars taken while their drivers were in Imola for the San Marino Grand Prix in April 1995. Neither was ever found, until London’s Metropolitan

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as Pakistan’s new prime minister. It’s the second time he’s had the job. Monday’s swearing-in ceremony saw Sharif pledging to perform his duties and functions with honesty and loyalty and always for the country’s independence. But he has a tough task of bringing lawmakers together to

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An online protest campaign exposing corruption has rattled government officials and others in Uganda, where street protests are practically outlawed. The campaign, which relies on leaks of official documents, has been presented on the social media platform X as an “exhibition” — in a sequence of

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet New numbers from the Employee Benefit Research Institute suggest that some couples at age 65 may need as much as $413,000 in savings to cover health care costs in retirement. That’s an extreme case, representing two people with high prescription drug costs — but health issues in retirement can be

By BARBARA SURK and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy The historic move was proposed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Emotional survivors of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, called on politicians to protect the community from future tragedies. The testimony came during a hearing by a commission investigating the rampage last year. The commission is reviewing the facts and evidence surrounding the

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief has called for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. Volker Türk lamented dozens of conflicts around the world, widespread violations

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia is rejecting allegations it violated international law by evicting people living around its famous Angkor Wat temple complex, saying in a report to UNESCO that it was only relocating squatters and not residents of more than 100 traditional villages. The U.N. cultural agency had demanded a

By JIWON SONG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government is pressing ahead with its vow to suspend the licenses of thousands of junior doctors who ignore its repeated demands to end their collective walkouts. Nearly 9,000 out of the country’s medical interns and residents have been refusing to

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication Berlin was preparing for war against Russia. The government is at the same time trying to contain the domestic fallout from the

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million). The 143 Inuit women say Danish health authorities violated their human rights

By EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change. Kerry tells The Associated Press during an interview that a climate agreement reached in December in Dubai is the highest point

KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — Police say a group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and wounding seven others. The King City Police Department says officers responded to a reported shooting around 6 p.m. Sunday and found three men dead with gunshot wounds in a