Month: October 2021

PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers have unanimously backed proposed legislation that would ban so-called LGBT conversion therapy. Parliament’s lower…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Holocaust memorial center has revealed the names of 159 Nazi SS troops who took…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to prevent evictions from public housing for nonpayment of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police and prosecutors in southern Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German that appeared on multiple…

By TRAVIS LANGNESS Edmunds The 2022 Nissan Frontier is completely redesigned with more power than any other midsize pickup truck and bold new looks…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal has absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Emirati court has sentenced five people to death who had been convicted in the first-degree murder and…

By HUIZHONG WU and DAVID RISING Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week,…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Investors can gain access to the booming cryptocurrency market without exposing their portfolios to high levels of…

By RAHIM FAEIZ and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban say they arrested four Islamic State militants north of the…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco closed just shy of a $2 trillion valuation…

LONDON (AP) — Facebook blamed a error during routine maintenance for causing a massive global outage that took down its services for hours. In an…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is urging member countries to provide relief funds to consumers and small…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll has surpassed 900 for the first time in the pandemic. The…

By DAVID KEYTON, FRANK JORDANS and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have shot and killed three men in Indian-controlled Kashmir in separate attacks blamed by police on militants…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A court has agreed to lift a shroud of secrecy from the trial of a spy’s lawyer that…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — The Libyan Red Crescent says at least 17 bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants, have…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church for the scale of child sexual abuse within the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The two parties that emerged as likely kingmakers from Germany’s election last month say they will…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have carried out large-scale raids in 25 cities in connection with a suspected money-laundering network alleged to have…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and…

By AARON FAVILA and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The son and namesake of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is heading into a parliamentary election this week hit by yet…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Oil spilling into federal waters off California’s coast has…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A trove of leaked documents shows that for years, Lebanon’s politicians and bankers have stowed…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRDO CASTLE, Slovenia (AP) — European Union leaders have tried to reassure six Balkan countries that they…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain is experiencing empty gas pumps, worker shortages and unavailable items on…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have gained, tracking a rally on Wall Street after signs of progress on resolving the…