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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and scientists say climate change is driving temperatures ever higher. For the three months through August, the average temperature was 9.8 Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), according to the National Institute of Water

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming is flowing low, slow and warm — not great conditions for trout fishing. After two dry summers in a row, low water and hot weather have spelled trouble for trout streams in the Rocky Mountain west. Warm water, especially,

BERLIN (AP) — The German Foreign Ministry says the country’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died at age 54. The ministry announced Jan Hecker’s “sudden death” in a short statement in the early hours of Monday. It didn’t give details of when or where Hecker

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked with a pickax a car carrying Japan’s entertainment icon Takeshi Kitano, though nobody was injured, according to media reports. The 74-year-old film director and actor,  also known as his stage name Beat Takeshi, was in the car with his

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as a one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and broken open. The Houston-based company currently paying for the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan officials say they have released one of Muammar Gadhafi’s sons after more than seven years of detention in the capital of Tripoli. Al-Saadi Gadhafi walked free Sunday from Tripoli’s al-Hadaba prison, where many Gadhafi regime officials are being held pending trial, mostly in connection to the

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina has been suspended amid chaotic scenes after local health officials walked onto the pitch in a bid to remove three players who didn’t comply with coronavirus protocols. Play in the match featuring Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar was

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Salvage crews have finished cutting apart the last two sections of a cargo ship that overturned along the Georgia coast two years ago. The multiagency command overseeing demolition of the South Korean freighter Golden Ray said Sunday that the final cut was completed Saturday. The separated chunks are still