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By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Former students and faculty members from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have arrived with their families in Portugal. The 273-person group, including some 150 students, flew into Lisbon from Doha, Qatar, on Monday. Their departure from Afghanistan was staggered in five airlifts to Doha over

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Calling him a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman,” Time magazine has named Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year for 2021. Musk, who is also the founder and CEO of the space exploration company SpaceX, is estimated to be the richest person

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young and Alabama teammates Will Anderson Jr. and Jameson Williams have been selected All-Americans by The Associated Press. That gives the top-ranked Crimson Tide more players on the first team than any other school. The AP All-America team was selected by a panel

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s former chief prosecutor has been arrested in Italy following his conviction for hiding money from illegally owned properties. Ex-prosecutor general Adriatik Llalla left Albania after a court sentenced him to two years in prison last month for hiding property and giving false information on the

John Legend’s newest project brings him into the book business. Legend, Tony Award-winning producer Mike Jackson and Emmy Award-winner Ty Stiklorius are partnering with the publisher Zando for a new imprint, Get Lifted Books. It’s an extension of the production company Get Lifted Film. Zando is an independent company founded last year by former Crown

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security. Monday’s vote sank a years-long effort to make global warming a more central consideration for the U.N.’s most powerful body. The proposal was spearheaded by Ireland

DILLON, Mont. (AP) — Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch has bought a large cattle ranch in southwest Montana from a subsidiary of Koch Industries. The Beaverhead Ranch is spread across more than 500 square miles of private and leased land west of Yellowstone National Park. It has about 7,000 cattle and is home to 15

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say a homemade bomb went off in a school attached to an Orthodox Christian convent and injured 12 people. They say an 18-year-old former student who is currently in intensive care was identified as a suspect in Monday’s explosion. The Russian Interior Ministry said the bomb detonated at the Vladychny

LONDON (AP) — Virgin Atlantic has received 400 million pounds of new funding from its shareholders to help the airline ride out the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement Monday, it said its shareholders, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, will provide the money in line with their stakes. Virgin Group owns 51%

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish-led forces say their ant-terrorism unit, with U.S.-led coalition support, has killed five suspected Islamic State group fighters in a raid to break up a militant cell in Syria’s east. The Syrian Democratic Forces unit carried out the joint operation with the international coalition near a village in the eastern countryside

PONTOTOC, Miss. (AP) — Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his execution last month. Police on Sunday discovered what’s believed to be the body of Felicia Cox on land in Pontotoc County. Last month, David Neal Cox

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The trial of a Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of Daunte Wright has opened its second week of testimony with an assistant medical examiner telling jurors that his gunshot wound was not survivable. The 20-year-old Black motorist was slain April 11

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Long lines have formed for booster shots across England as the U.K. government urged all adults to protect themselves against the omicron variant. The British government also reported the country’s first death involving the omicron variant. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said everyone 18 and

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) — Researchers on an idyllic New Hampshire lake popular with tourists are hunting for what’s inhibiting the loon population growth. The iconic aquatic birds, known for their haunting calls, have long faced threats from development and lead poisoning. But they are also facing exposure to long-banned chemicals

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say a gun attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed two police and wounded a dozen others, hours after government forces killed two militants in a brief shootout. The police statement on Monday said gunmen sprayed with bullets a bus carrying police on the outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city.

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says that he has postponed getting a booster shot of a COVID-19 vaccine because he has tested positive for the disease and is recuperating from mild symptoms. The statement issued Monday said that Ramaphosa is receiving medical treatment for his symptoms

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — One person has been found dead and another is missing after two cargo ships collided in the Baltic Sea off southern Sweden. The ships were identified as the Danish-flagged Karin Hoej and a British ship, the Scot Carrier. The Danish ship was floating upside down.

BERLIN (AP) — A Nobel laureate in literature, Jewish students and other prominent figures in Austria want the country’s new interior minister removed from office because of allegedly antisemitic comments he made more than a decade ago. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said Monday that he regrets what he said during an election campaign back then,

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press A major winter storm hitting Northern California is expected to intensify and bring travel headaches and a threat of localized flooding after an abnormally warm fall in the U.S. West. Light rain and snow that started falling over the weekend was heavier early Monday. The state’s highest peaks could get