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Malta’s deputy prime minister resigns, ends EU Commission bid, as he faces charges in hospital deal 05/10/2024 12:32pm • VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s deputy prime minister resigned Friday, and ended his European Commission bid, after he was charged with fraud in a hospital scandal roiling the Mediterranean island nation. In his resignation letter, Chris Fearne denied wrongdoing but said he must put Malta before Top Indian opposition leader released on bail by court enabling him to campaign in elections 05/10/2024 11:50am • NEW DELHI (AP) — A top Indian opposition leader was freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case that opposition parties called a political move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government against one of his rivals during a n Zurich presents counterrevolutionary staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle under Noseda and Homoki 05/10/2024 11:38am • ZURICH (AP) — In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked 13 minutes of applause at the Zurich Opera House. Noseda, conducting Wagner’s epic for th FIFA offers peace talks to player unions, leagues on legal threats about congested game schedules 05/10/2024 11:14am • GENEVA (AP) — FIFA offered peace talks to the global networks of player unions and domestic leagues on Friday after they threatened legal action about soccer’s congested international calendar. FIFPRO and the World Leagues Association aired long-held frustrations at FIFA adding new and bigger ev Inside a makeshift shelter saving hundreds of dogs from floods in southern Brazil 05/10/2024 11:08am • CANOAS, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. They treat and feed sick, hungry or injured dogs, hoping to reunite them with t 'FLiRT' COVID variants are spreading. Scientists share what we know so far. 05/10/2024 10:31am • ▶ Watch Video: Marking 4 years since the start of the COVID pandemic More than a third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now estimated to be from a new, fast-growing member of a group of so-called "FLiRT" variants, nicknamed for their small but distinctive changes relative to the JN.1 A campaign ad by a South African party showing a burning flag is called treason by the president 05/10/2024 09:58am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country’s flag in flames has stoked tensions just weeks ahead of national elections that are seen as the most pivotal since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation 30 years ago. The op Maryland-based Novavax soars on big vaccine deal 05/10/2024 08:47am • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax has signed a $1.2 billion licensing agreement with French drugmaker Sanofi to co-commercialize its combination COVID and influenza vaccine. Novavax stock more than doubled after the announcement. It puts Novavax on solid footing, after restructurings last y Judge to decide whether to delay construction of Dominion’s offshore wind project 05/10/2024 08:44am • A federal judge will soon decide whether Dominion Energy obtained necessary federal approvals for its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, a 176-turbine wind farm environmental groups are backing as a critical source of renewable energy needed to combat climate change. Judge Loren L. AliKhan i AP Decision Notes: What to expect in North Carolina’s US House primary runoff 05/10/2024 07:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina's lone congressional runoff, in the state's 13th Congressional District, became a one-person race when former President Donald Trump endorsed Brad Knott this month, leading his opponent to suspend her campaign. Congressional candidate Kelly Daughtry will remain on European companies are less upbeat about China's vast market as its economy slows 05/10/2024 06:56am • BEIJING (AP) — China is actively seeking foreign investment to boost its slowing growth, but that very sluggishness is weighing on company plans to expand their businesses in the world's second largest economy, an annual survey of more than 500 European companies found. The slowing economy is now Storm-battered South is again under threat. A boy swept into a drain fights for his life 05/10/2024 06:40am • COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South on Thursday even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned tornadoes, killed at least three people, and gravely injured a boy who was swept into a storm drain as he played in a flooded street. A heavy l Your tax refund could be bigger this year. Here's what to do with it 05/10/2024 06:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — The average taxpayer is getting a $2,852 refund, $75 more than last year, based on the most recent IRS data. So what should you do with that money? Experts generally advise putting it toward debt and savings, but, for many people, that's unrealistic. A tax refund is typically the Countries struggle to draft 'pandemic treaty' to avoid mistakes made during COVID 05/10/2024 06:00am • GENEVA (AP) — After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. Years later, countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how Several closely-watched US House primaries in Maryland are loaded with candidates 05/10/2024 05:15am • Three open Maryland congressional seats have led to a flood of candidates in a trio of districts, providing dozens of choices for voters in the May 14 primary. The sprawling 6th District, which stretches from part of Montgomery County, through the Frederick area to the westernmost counties of the