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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Alabama has a chance to repeat. Georgia has a chance for revenge. The rematch is set, and it’ll decide the College Football Playoff national championship. After a pair of easy wins in the semifinals on Friday night, the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs will

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An advertisement by a French automaker has stirred up controversy in Egypt after activists said it promotes sexual harassment in a country where the practice is rampant. The ad by the Egyptian branch of Citroën was released last month and features popular Egyptian singer and actor Amr

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has used his New Year’s Day appearances to encourage people to focus on the good which unites them and to decry violence against women. Thousands of Rome residents and tourists wearing face masks gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear Francis lay out his

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting anti-American slogans have rallied in the Iraqi capital to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. The crowd called on Saturday for the expulsion of remaining American forces from Iraq. The demonstration commemorated

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Amid a wave of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant, dozens of colleges are making plans to move classes online for at least the first week of the semester. Harvard University is moving classes online for the first three weeks of the new year. The University of Chicago

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people. Tutu died last Sunday at age 90. His plain pine

BERLIN (AP) — Exploding fireworks killed a man in Germany and another in Austria on New Year’s Eve. A 37-year-old man died in Hennef near Germany’s western city of Bonn on Friday night. A 39-year-old was severely injured in the same incident and taken to the hospital. In Austria, a 23-year-old man died southwest of

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of people chanting anti-American slogans have rallied in the Iraqi capital to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. The crowd called Saturday for the expulsion of remaining American forces from Iraq. The demonstration commemorated the

By ZARAR KHAN and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — South Asian archrivals India and Pakistan have exchanged lists of each other’s citizens held in prison through their respective diplomats in Islamabad and New Delhi. The two sides also exchanged lists Saturday of their nuclear assets and facilities under an agreement in place for

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has ushered in the new year by praising the skills women bring to promoting peace in the world. The Roman Catholic Church marks Jan. 1 as a day dedicated to world peace. A late-morning Mass in Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday paid

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An advertisement by a French automaker has stirred up controversy in Egypt after activists said it promoted sexual harassment in a country where the practice is rampant. The ad by the Egyptian branch of Citroën, released last month, features popular Egyptian singer and actor Amr Diab driving

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A crowd surge at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed at least 12 people and injured 15 others on New Year’s Day. Initial reports suggest an altercation between a group of devotees led to the crush at the Mata Vaishnav Devi shrine, where

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people. Tutu died last Sunday at age 90. His small plain

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have landed in the Mediterranean Sea off central Israel. It was not immediately clear whether the rockets fired Saturday were meant to hit Israel, but Gaza-based militant groups often test-fire missiles toward the sea. There were no reports of casualties. Apart

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press The events from last Jan. 6 in Washington unfolded on live television and they’ve been the subject of congressional hearings and criminal proceedings since then. Yet hoaxes and conspiracy theories about what happened that day continue to circulate on cable news shows and social media. Falsehoods have excused former President

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, being sworn in Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney. Now he’s weighing another: whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime. Bragg inherited an ongoing investigation into Trump and his

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square has arrived just as the year prior began, with the pandemic clouding an already uncertain future. Confetti and cheers spread across Times Square as a New Year’s Eve tradition returned to a

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 is set to proceed despite a new surge of infections. The 133rd edition of the Pasadena, California, tradition is scheduled to feature actor LeVar Burton as grand

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Adams is New York City’s new mayor after the Democrat was sworn into office in a Times Square ceremony shortly after the nation’s largest city rung in the new year. The 61-year-old Adams faces the immense challenge of pulling the city out of the

By BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — An overnight dumping of snow and frigid temperatures compounded the misery of hundreds of Colorado residents who started off the new year trying to salvage what remains of their homes after a wind-whipped wildfire tore through the Denver suburbs. At least