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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Stifling heat is gripping much of Southern Europe, and forecasters say worse is expected to come. Throughout the Mediterranean region, days of hot weather already have driven people indoors at midday, spoiled crops and complicated the challenge of firefighters battling wildfires. Barcelona officials opened museums, and libraries

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the main threat to the U.S. appears to be heavy rains

MADRID (AP) — Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar says society must be alert to the power of algorithms deciding what humans are permitted to see. He declared “victory” over Instagram after a controversial poster for his upcoming film was censored then reinstated. The social network has since apologized and backtracked after recognizing the “artistic context” of

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police in Turkey say they have detained 76 people in connection with attacks on homes and businesses believed to be owned by Syrians after a Turkish teenager was killed in a fight with a group of refugees from Syria. Local media reports said a hundreds-strong mob took to the streets in

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A key medical adviser to Japan’s prime minister says surging infections in the Tokyo area are severely affecting medical systems, and he is urging the government to take stricter measures to drastically reduce people’s activity. The Japanese capital has been reporting record numbers of new infections, with

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has inaugurated the country’s diplomatic representation in Morocco, a symbol of the normalization of the relations between the two nations. Yair Lapid’s two-day visit is the first to the country by an Israeli minister since 2003. It comes comes less than a year after Israel and Morocco reached

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Human rights experts working with the United Nations have called on countries to pause the sale and transfer of spyware and other surveillance technology until they set rules governing its use, to ensure it won’t impinge upon human rights. The eight experts spoke out following further Pegasus

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is facing a more difficult relationship with two of its key allies after lawmakers passed two bills which the government had been warned to drop. One deals with foreign ownership of Polish media companies and would force the U.S. owner of Poland’s largest private TV

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican officials in Texas say law enforcement has now been enlisted to help bring Democrats back to the state Capitol and end a standoff over a GOP voting bill. The move to bring in law enforcement came a day after officers of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun. But scientists are warning the public not to be complacent, saying high levels of infection in the community are likely to lead to

DETROIT (AP) — Flooding brought by heavy rains shut down some freeways in the Detroit area Thursday as waves of thunderstorms made their way across large swaths of the Midwest. Thunderstorms that toppled trees or tree limbs onto power lines left nearly 1 million homes and businesses in Michigan without power at one point Thursday

LONDON (AP) — London’s top police official says the city’s police department is reviewing its files but not opening an investigation of Britain’s Prince Andrew. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said London police working with prosecutors had already reviewed the case twice before a woman sued Andrew in a U.S. federal court this week. Dick

By KATHERINE FAN of NerdWallet As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, recent research shows that office-based workers report being happy with the option to work remotely — and employers have also been pleased with the results. Of course, moving to a remote-work business model has its challenges. Meetings, scheduling, data storage, communication and project management are