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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized to a survivor of a racist 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls, calling the blast an egregious injustice, but declining Wednesday to pay restitution without legislative involvement.

It appears that an election workers decision to throw out nine military ballots in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not intentional fraud, the states top elections official said Wednesday.

Caesars Entertainment said Wednesday it is buying the British bookmaker William Hill for $3.7 billion in a deal aimed at binding its casinos ever closer to the fastgrowing legal sports betting industry in the U.S.

Biden said during Tuesdays debate with President Donald Trump, an ally of Bolsonaro, that foreign countries should give Brazil $20 billion to stop Amazon deforestation, and that the country should face repercussions if it fails.

An arrest has been made in connection with vandalism and shots fired into the home of a Black suburban Detroit family who have a Black Lives Matter sign in their front window, police said.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki presented a reshuffled Cabinet on Wednesday that formally brings in party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski as a deputy prime minister as well as a new education minister who has said LGBT people are not equal to others.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she wanted to do everything in her power to avoid another national lockdown as coronavirus infection numbers rise again in Europe's largest economy, expressing confidence the goal was achievable.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday Britain had secured Vietnam's public support for it to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TransPacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven won't take part in a European Union meeting in Brussels starting on Thursday since he is attending his mothers funeral and will be represented by his counterpart from neighboring Finland.

Britain considered a plan to send asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to holding centres on its remote overseas territories in the south Atlantic but the idea, described as "ludicrous" by opponents, was later dropped, the Financial Times reported.

For the last four months, Ahmed alKurdi, his wife and three children have been stranded in Jordan, where they traveled from their home in the Gaza Strip for lifesaving medical treatment for his 2yearold daughter.

ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-FACT CHECK-VISUALS Falsehoods were flying as President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden sparred Tuesday in their first of three debates. The following charts help illustrate AP Fact Checks on select points in the debate. T...

The second India-Australia-Japan-USA ministerial meeting will take place in Tokyo on October 6 in which the foreign ministers of the respective countries will discuss the post-COVID-19 international order.

A bill to fund the federal government cleared a key Senate procedural hurdle Tuesday as lawmakers sought to accomplish the bare minimum before they depart Washington to campaign preventing a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins.

Republican senators meeting with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday praised President Donald Trump's pick for the lifetime post, rejecting Democrats' assertion that she should recuse herself from potential electionrelated cases.

North Korea on Tuesday called on the world's governments to display effective leadership in the fight against COVID-19 and said its own measures against the pandemic, which it called preemptive, timely and strong, ensured it had the threat under safe and...