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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to competition law by blocking plans for the breakaway Super League. The case was heard last year at the Court of Justice after Super League failed at launch in April 2021. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin called

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged Vatican bureaucrats Thursday to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality, an appeal made days after he formally allowed priests to bless same-sex couples in a radical change of Vatican policy. Francis used his annual Christmas greeting to the Holy

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says his government will send 11 military personnel to support a U.S.-led mission to protect cargo shipping in the Red Sea but won’t send a warship or plane. The United States has announced that several nations are creating a new force

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s parliament has voted to lift the legal immunity of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition Democratic Party and is being probed for possible corruption. Opposition lawmakers inside the hall boycotted the vote and tried to disrupt the session by collecting chairs and

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian police say a passenger train has struck a group of maintenance workers on the tracks and killed two of them injured four others. The official STA news agency said that the collision happened near the southwestern town of Postojna at around 9 a.m. Wednesday. The report says the injured workers

BEIJING (AP) — Hundreds of temporary housing units are being set up in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 144 people. State broadcaster CCTV showed footage Thursday of cranes lifting white, box-like housing units and lining them up in an open field in a

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press

By The Associated Press World shares mostly fell Thursday after Wall Street hit the brakes on its big rally following disappointing corporate profit reports and warnings that the market had surged too far, too fast. Germany’s DAX slipped 0.3% to 16,676.00 and in Paris, the CAC40 fell 0.3% to 7,559.33. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged 0.1%

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo is entering its second day of voting after a chaotic rollout and lengthy delays forced the election’s extension. Some 44 million people — almost half the population — were expected to vote for Congo’s next president. But many, including several million displaced by conflict in

By SAMUEL PETREQUIJN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to EU competition law by blocking plans for the breakaway Super League. The case was heard last year at the Court of Justice after Super League failed at launch in April 2021. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court has ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor. The Supreme Court ruled that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel Corp. must give compensation to a total of 11 workers who were forced

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you open your doors, the parcel is nowhere to be found. If this has happened to you, then count yourself among the

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a volcano in A.D. 79 The inspiration comes from frescoes unearthed inside the archaeological site that show winged cupids

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings have held a protest accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country. They briefly marched outside the Parliament building in New Delhi on Thursday behind a huge “Save

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the country will maintain military pressure on the Philippines amid a dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea that could involve U.S. forces defending their treaty partner. In a phone conversation with his Philippine counterpart Enrique A. Manalo, Wang “warned that if the

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media are reporting that an accident in a coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province has left 12 people dead and 13 injured. The coal workers were in a mining cart underground that ran off the tracks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Thursday. The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon in Jixi city in

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas prosecutor says a criminal investigation into police failures during the Uvalde school shooting will continue into 2024. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell’s remarks earlier this week pushed back expectations that a grand jury would convene before the end of the year. Mitchell says her

PERTH, Australia (AP) — A wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth appears to have destroyed or damaged a number of homes. An emergency warning was issued for the eastern suburb of Parkerville where the fire started on Thursday morning. The alert warned that the fire