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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fumio Kishida has been elected Japan’s prime minister in a parliamentary vote and will be tasked with quickly tackling the pandemic and other challenges and leading a national election within weeks. Kishida won comfortably since his party and its coalition partner hold a majority in both houses.

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Shaheen has risen to five. Authorities in Oman said Monday they found the body of a man who disappeared when floodwaters swept him away from his vehicle. That comes a day after a child similarly drowned and two foreigners

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A COVID-19 vaccine requirement for teachers and other staff members has taken effect in New York City’s million-plus-student public school system. The city had planned to bring in substitutes on Monday, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning that unvaccinated school employees would be placed on unpaid

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Residents, business owners and environmentalists were questioning whether officials reacted quickly enough to contain one of the largest oil spills in recent California history. The spill was caused by a suspected leak in an underwater pipeline that fouled the sands of famed

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president has hosted two Israeli Cabinet ministers for a late-night meeting, in a new sign of slowly improving ties between the sides. The ministers of health and regional cooperation were the second group of Cabinet officials to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since the new Israeli government

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban forces have raided an Islamic State affiliate’s hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a bombing outside a mosque. Suspicion for that deadly attack quickly fell on the Islamic State group, which has ramped up attacks against its Taliban enemy. The Taliban statement did not say

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likes to say the Democrats’ diversity is its strength and unity is its power. But the party’s diversity of opinions is pulling apart President Joe Biden’s expansive federal government overhaul. And it’s going to take full-scale party unity to get it over

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets are mixed, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 2% after troubled property developer China Evergrande’s shares were suspended from trading. The company’s filing did not say why, but a Chinese financial news service said another developer planned to acquire Evergrande’s property management unit. Wall Street rebounded

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has returned to the courtroom for the start of a momentous new term, after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus pandemic. Abortion, guns and religion all are on the agenda for a court with a rightward tilt, including three

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady rallied the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-17 victory over the Patriots on a rainy Sunday night in his return to New England, with Ryan Succop hitting the winning 48-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter. Brady was 22 of 43 for

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says the two Koreas have restored a stalled communication channel after a hiatus in a small reconciliation step. The restoration of an inter-Korean hotlines came three days after North Korea said it had test-fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile in the fourth round

By ALICE FUNG and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Shares in troubled real estate developer China Evergrande Group and its property management unit Evergrande Property Services have been suspended from trading in Hong Kong. Cailian, a Chinese online news service affiliated with the state-run newspaper Securities Times, said another developer plans to