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HAVANA (AP) – Bent in concentration beneath the vaulted ceiling of his Old Havana studio, Mauro Coca draws a tropical bird in blue ink down the length of Julivic Marquez’s arm. “That’s really good,” the 21-year-old art student says, and Coca presses his electric needle to her forearm. She winces …

BEIJING (AP) – Chinese flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune on Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year. In Beijing, hundreds of thousands of people visited traditional fairs held in parks, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temples offering singing and dance …

TAINAN, Taiwan (AP) – Rescuers raced to find additional survivors after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn Saturday and collapsed a high-rise residential complex, killing at least seven people and sending scores to hospitals. Rescuers pulled 249 survivors from the rubble in the worst-hit city of Tainan, …

PRESEVO, Serbia (AP) – Rasul Orwani thought he had faced the worst after braving cold, rough seas in a rickety wooden boat to travel from Turkey to Greece, then came the Balkans. After arriving in Macedonia with dozens of other migrants, the group crossed into Serbia on foot in the …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – It’s another big, splashy step for the North Korean government: a planned rocket launch the world will see as a banned test of long-range missile technology that comes only weeks after testing what it said was a hydrogen bomb. How is this playing in Seoul, …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – In a sign of mounting global concern over the Zika virus, health officials on Friday warned pregnant women to think twice about the lips they kiss and called on men to use condoms with pregnant partners if they have visited countries where the virus is …

BEIJING (AP) – The new Chinese year is the one to go bananas over. On Feb. 8, the zodiac calendar enters the Year of the Monkey – the ninth of 12 animal signs. Plastic monkeys are adorning shopping centers and office buildings, and government departments have been giving out toy …

LONDON (AP) – A United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be freed immediately and compensated for the years he has lost. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which falls under the …

LONDON (AP) – Brazilian officials say they’re sending a set of samples related to the Zika outbreak to the United States, a move which follows complaints that the country was hoarding disease data and biological material. The announcement came hours after The Associated Press revealed that international health officials were …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Brazilian Carnival could be called a hungry mosquito’s dream – five days of non-stop street parties that bring together millions of revelers in an inviting mass of bare ankles, uncovered legs and denuded torsos. So the mosquito-borne Zika virus might be expected to dampen this …