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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of junior doctors went on strike across England on Monday to demand better pay, kicking off three days of widespread disruption at the U.K.’s state-funded hospitals and health clinics. Junior doctors — who are qualified but in the earlier years of their career —

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top editors at the Dutch national broadcaster’s sports department have stepped down amid reports that there was a culture of inappropriate behavior and bullying among staff spanning more than two decades. The decision Sunday evening followed a report last week compiled by external experts

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The former mayor of a small Haitain town accused of terrorizing his political opponents is heading to trial in federal court in Boston. The case that starts Monday highlights the violent nature of the nation’s politics. The suit filed against Jean Morose Viliena, who now lives in

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s new parliament has convened for the first time after the president suspended the previous legislature in 2021. President Kais Saied and many Tunisians blamed the Islamists who dominated the old parliament for the country’s economic and social crises. Saied has since legislated by decree

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC called a truce Monday in its showdown with sports commentator Gary Lineker, reversing its suspension of the former soccer great for a tweet that criticized the U.K. government’s contentious new migration policy. The about-face followed a weekend of chaos and crisis for Britain’s publicly funded

By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press Pfizer is spending about $43 billion to reach deeper into new cancer treatments that target tumor cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue. The pharmaceutical giant said Monday it will pay $229 in cash for each share of Seagen Inc. Pfizer then plans to let the biotech drug

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s high court has ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades. The court says he deserves a retrial because of a possibility that his murder conviction was based on forced confession and fabricated evidence. Hakamada

By YURI KAGEYAMA and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Bank stocks sagged in Europe and U.S. stock futures fell Monday ahead of the market’s open in New York, shaken by a Wall Street tumble that set off worries the biggest U.S. bank failure in nearly 15 years might have ripple effects around

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran announced Monday that the country’s supreme leader has pardoned 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the mass release. The statement by Iran’s judiciary head Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi offered for

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he arranged and made on the former president’s behalf. Cohen arrived at the courthouse accompanied by his lawyer shortly in advance of his

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly elected president has taken took the oath of office in Kathmandu. Ram Chandra Poudel, senior opposition leader, is the Himalayan country’s third president since it abolished its centuries-old monarchy in 2008 and became a republic. Poudel was elected Thursday by members of the national parliament and provincial assemblies. Outgoing

LONDON (AP) — Gary Lineker will return to airwaves after the BBC reversed the former soccer great’s suspension on Monday for a post on Twitter that had criticized the British government’s new asylum policy. “Gary is a valued part of the BBC and I know how much the BBC means to Gary, and I look

By KEN SWEET, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, CHRIS MEGERIAN and CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Governments in the U.S. and Britain are taking extraordinary steps to prevent a potential banking crisis after the failure of California-based Silicon Valley Bank prompted fears of a broader upheaval. U.S. regulators worked through the weekend to find a

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Nyhiem Way is weary of people conflating African American and Black. Shalini Parekh wants a way for South Asian people to identify themselves differently than East Asians with roots in places like China or Japan. And Byron Haskins wants the U.S. to toss racial and ethnic labels altogether. “When you

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s during the commercial breaks that the audience inside the Dolby Theatre really comes to life on Oscar night. The stars will gladly play for the cameras posted in their face during the global broadcast – they are actors after all – but a lot

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — India celebrated its two historic Academy Awards with enthusiasm befitting the high-energy best original song “Naatu Naatu.” The dance anthem from the blockbuster Telugu-language action epic “RRR” is the first from an Indian film to earn a nomination and win and has dazzled audiences everywhere with

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis marks the 10th anniversary of his election as pope on Monday. During that decade, several historic occasions, as well as several unplanned events, helped define the contours and priorities of history’s first Latin American pontiff. Visits with refugees in Italy and Greece, trips to

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was chaotic, messy, wild, creative, big-hearted and utterly unique. If it were a bagel, it would most certainly have been the “everything” kind. But “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was a movie, not a bagel, and it ruled Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, making for one

HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Texas say a 3-year-old girl found a loaded gun in a home and accidentally shot her sister, killing the 4-year-old on Sunday around 8 p.m. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says the girls were in the bedroom of an apartment in Houston, where they lived with their parents. Five adults,

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer Western sanctions have hit Russian banks, wealthy individuals and technology imports. But after a year of far-reaching restrictions aimed at degrading Moscow’s war chest, economic life for ordinary Russians doesn’t look all that different than it did before the invasion of Ukraine. There’s no mass unemployment, no plunging currency,