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Details: Written by By DAKE KANG Associated Press; Published: 14 December 2022

(AP Photo/Dake Kang)

The change in reporting practices comes the week after the country announced its most significant easing yet of antivirus measures.

Details: Written by HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press; Published: 27 November 2022

Protests against China's strict anti-virus controls spread to Shanghai and other cities as President Xi Jinping’s government faces mounting anger at its “zero-COVID” policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and trying to live with the virus.

Details: Written by ZARAR KHAN Associated Press; Published: 28 August 2022

Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes and livelihoods as villages are swept away and crops aredevastated

Details: Written by By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press; Published: 21 July 2022

(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

She will be formally sworn in as the president on Monday.

Details: Written by COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press; Published: 15 May 2022

Members of the Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine celebrate after winning the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest at Palaolimpico arena, in Turin, Italy, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest in the early hours of Sunday in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation that went beyond music

Details: Written by THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press; Published: 10 April 2022

Up to 48 million French voters will be choosing between 12 candidates: President Emmanuel Macron is seeking a second five-year term but faces a strong challenge from far-right candidate Marine Le Pen

Details: Written by By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer; Published: 07 March 2022

(AP Photo/Ralph Freso, File)

WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested last month at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges.

Details: Written by By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer; Published: 28 February 2022

Russian teams were suspended Monday from all international soccer, including qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, as Moscow was pushed toward pariah status in sports for its invasion of Ukraine.

Details: Written by YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press; Published: 24 February 2022

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.

Details: Written by By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press; Published: 21 February 2022

(Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scrapping the last domestic coronavirus restrictions in England even as he acknowledged the potential for new and more deadly variants of the virus.

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