Month: August 2021

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands appears to be heading toward talks to form a minority coalition after efforts to piece together a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary says that prosecutors have opened criminal cases against six guards at the country’s…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she would never govern with support from the Left party. That’s an option two of her…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district has reversed a decision to leave a federal free meals program following widespread criticism and…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus official says Pope Francis will visit Cyprus in December, making him the…

LONDON (AP) — British government veterinarians have killed an alpaca whose sentence of death made international headlines and pitted animal…

By JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Hugely popular online games and celebrity culture are the latest targets in the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is visiting the United States in hopes of bolstering security…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s parliament has elected the chief of a major national museum as the Baltic…

By COURTNEY JESPERSEN of NerdWallet One of the biggest sale weekends of the year is fast approaching. Labor Day weekend is traditionally filled with…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union justice and home affairs ministers have pledged to support…

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer has been placed on administrative duty as the city’s police oversight agency investigates his…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has asked the president to declare a state of emergency along the…

BERLIN (AP) — Google has announced that it is investing $1.2 billion by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital say they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Consumers are seeing higher prices in Europe. Official figures released Tuesday show…

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured after a roadway collapsed in Mississippi on Monday night.…

By ALEXIA FERNANDEZ CAMPBELL The Center for Public Integrity A Center for Public Integrity investigation finds that the U.S. Postal Service regularly…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV says that a bomb-laden drone has targeted an airport in…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government replaced top public security officials following the…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh anti-terrorism tribunal has sentenced six Islamist militants to death in the…

BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics show that the number of unemployed people in Germany declined slightly in August, unusually for the summer month,…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police say 11 militants of the Islamic State group were killed in a raid in restive…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has reopened but then recessed its proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish president the United Arab Emirates’ de-facto leader have spoken by telephone, in a sign of easing tensions between…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Venice’s central place in the history of battling pandemics provides the backdrop to this…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have gained as investors weighed the economic impact of the spread of the…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand have begun a no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister…

By TOM VERDIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe can be measured in more than acres burned. While it has…

By JAY REEVES and STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press CROWN POINT, La. (AP) — New Orleans largely escaped catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Ida,…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America For Shelly Savoie, time is running out at the Motel 6 in Bossier City, Louisiana. So are…

By KEVIN MCGILL, CHEVEL JOHNSON and MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Resigning from office probably didn’t end former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal problems,…

By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are bracing for strong winds a day after…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of…

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is defending the way the U.S. ended its 20-year…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska residents don’t know how much money they might get from the state’s oil wealth…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden still faces daunting challenges born of the hasty end of…

By KATHY GANNON, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are reveling in their victory after the…

By SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Members of the faith widely known as the Mormon church remain deeply…