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BERLIN — A German federal court cleared the way Thursday for Ritter Sport to maintain its status as the only widely known square chocolate in its home market. The Federal Court of Justice delivered its verdict in a back-and-forth, decade-long battle between Ritter and rival Milka, whose owner a decade ago sought to have the

LONDON — Amber Heard insisted Thursday that she never wanted the world to know the details of her years of alleged abuse by Johnny Depp, as she concluded her evidence in her ex-husband’s libel case against a British tabloid. Taking the witness stand for a fourth straight day, Heard testified that everything she had said

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: The Diamond League track meet in Gateshead, England, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is the fifth of the 15 meets in the series to be canceled. The event in London was also called off. The Gateshead meet

KYIV, Ukraine — A criminal suspect brandishing a hand grenade has abducted a senior police officer in central Ukraine and fled, officials said Thursday. When police tried to detain the man accused of stealing a car outside a court building in Poltava, he threatened them with the grenade and took one of the officers hostage.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers are restarting this season the same way they opened it — fielding questions about Victor Oladipo’s status. They are hoping to have an answer by next week. After initially announcing he would not play in Florida because of concerns over his surgically-repaired right knee, the two-time All-Star backtracked and said

ATLANTA — The nation paid its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who helped end segregation across the South and left an abiding imprint on U.S. history. Vivian, a close ally of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was mourned by civil rights icons along with

JOHANNESBURG — The South African Medical Research Council is reporting a “huge discrepancy” between the country’s confirmed COVID-19 deaths and the number of excess deaths from natural causes. The new report shows more than 17,000 excess deaths from May 6 to July 14 as compared to data from the past two years. According to the

NEW YORK — In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa could think of nothing but the small town and the family he had left behind in Mexico. Each month, he had sent $300 or $400 to his wife and son

TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics have hit the one-year-to-go mark — again. But few are in a mood to celebrate. Tokyo observed the original date a year ago. That was before the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the Olympics and pushed back the opening to July 23, 2021. Fireworks cascaded over Tokyo Bay back then, and local

The DAZN streaming network won’t air its “MLB ChangeUp” show this season, according to multiple people familiar with the decision. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because they weren’t authorized to comment publicly on the matter. The show debuted at the start of baseball season last year and was

MILAN — Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri lured the French fashion house to her childhood haunt of Lecce, in southern Italy, to preview the 2021 cruise collection with a live destination show Wednesday that has become a fashion world rarity in the coronavirus era. But the show almost didn’t happen. ‘’It is a decision

LOS ANGELES — The Sierra Club apologized Wednesday for racist remarks its founder, naturalist John Muir, made more then a century ago as the influential environmental group grapples with a harmful history that perpetuated white supremacy. Executive Director Michael Brune said it was “time to take down some of our own monuments” as statues of