Month: October 2021

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Angela Merkel is still Germany’s Chancellor and might be still when the European Union leaders…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities are searching for dozens of people missing in this week’s heavy rains, floods and landslides, as…

By PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — A landmark synagogue building in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood…

GENEVA (AP) — Nearly four dozen countries in Europe and central Asia have agreed to improve protections for environmental defenders who voice…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Justice Ministry has blocked the army from appealing a landmark court…

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental campaigners have staged protests on several continents to press their demands for more government action to curb global…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish lira has slid to a record low against the U.S. dollar, a day after the Central Bank sharply cut interest rates.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The first female president of Japan’s powerful labor union federation says she will work to…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus infections and deaths in Russia have climbed to another pandemic record, putting…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates say they have imprisoned a television journalist over apparently leaked…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is accelerating plans to reopen the country to foreign tourists, slashing mandatory quarantines beginning Nov. 1 for fully…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 2,000 Polish coal miners staged a noisy protest in Luxembourg against a decision by the European Union’s top court…

By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Court records show that an assistant director…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are discussing the sensitive topic of migration to the bloc and how to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An award-winning 19-year-old Swedish rapper has been shot to death in southern Stockholm in an incident that media reports suggest…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian military airstrikes have forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian capital Tehran has held its main public Friday prayer service for the first time in 20 months, after it was halted…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Worried that the flu and COVID-19 could together trigger a winter-time double-whammy of new…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is back at Windsor Castle and in good spirits after revelations that…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed hope that new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a train driver in Germany has died after being hit by a falling branch during a storm that swept across a swath of central…

BEIJING (AP) — China is saying there is “no room” for compromise or concessions over the issue of Taiwan, following a comment by U.S. President…

JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Two groups of Rohingya refugees have clashed in a camp in southern Bangladesh, leaving at…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire official in Mumbai says at least one person died after jumping from the 19th floor to…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians are flocking to Tehran’s contemporary art museum to marvel at American pop…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Enjei Grace and fellow Cameroonian Daniel Ejube have been stuck for nearly five…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian emergency officials say 16 people have been killed by an explosion and fire at a gunpowder factory. The Emergency Situations…

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Movie theaters in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai have reopened after more than 18 months of closure due to the…

By ADRIENNE SURPRENANT Associated Press MALUALKON, South Sudan (AP) — This is the third straight year of extreme flooding in South Sudan. It…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Amnesty International is calling for an independent parliamentary inquiry into COVID-19 deaths in…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime U.S. rowing coach Mike Teti, who has been criticized by some of his former…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has adopted a new energy policy that promotes nuclear and renewables as sources of clean…

By YAROSLAV GUNIN Associated Press NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) — In Russia’s fifth-largest city, Nizhny Novgorod, seriously ill coronavirus…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that February’s military takeover…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Millions more Americans are now eligible for COVID-19 boosters, and they can get a different…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended up with a mixed finish on Wall Street Friday after another choppy day of trading,…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Efforts to make school buses greener are gaining momentum thanks to billions of dollars in spending…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, one of the country’s once-prominent…

BEIJING (AP) — Police in China’s capital Beijing say famed international pianist Li Yundi is a suspect in a prostitution case. A message on…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Skeptical Virginia Republicans have come around to Glenn Youngkin, the party’s…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press GLENNS, Va. (AP) — A Black activist and educator is making her presence known as a third-party candidate in the…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Terry McAuliffe won Virginia’s 2013 governor’s race by embracing his own…