Month: October 2021

PARIS (AP) — Facebook says it’s struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya is hosting an international conference aimed at resolving the country’s thorniest issues…

ATHENS Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says he will seek the leadership of the once-powerful Socialist party founded by his father, in…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Coronavirus infections and deaths in Ukraine have surged to all-time highs amid a laggard…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 25-year-old man with the murder of a Conservative…

MIAMI (AP) — The mask mandate for students in some South Florida schools could soon be eased as local rates of COVID-19 infections and…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a gas station attendant in Germany has been punched and kicked by a customer after an argument over the latter’s failure…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of environmental group Greenpeace has warned against efforts by countries and corporations…

By RANDA KRISS of NerdWallet The Paycheck Protection Program provided small-business owners with just under $800 billion in COVID-19 relief. That…

By MIKE CORDER, RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are meeting to discuss ways to ease the…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani counter-terrorism forces say they have killed three Afghan militants who belonged to the Islamic State group…

LYONS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say an officer accidentally fired his handgun during a struggle while police were making arrests in suburban…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are pressuring a defiant Polish Prime Minister Mateusz…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers are weighing what lessons to draw from the military mission in Afghanistan,…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of a 14-year-old girl killed in the 2018 Florida high school shooting massacre is…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Australia and Britain are defending their nuclear submarine deal with the U.S. amid concerns it could escalate…

MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated during the night on the Spanish island of La Palma as a river of molten rock creeps deeper into a…

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has released a video saying he’s on the road to recovery after being hospitalized in…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow authorities have announced plans to shut restaurants, movie theaters and many retail…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rains have killed at least 99 people in Nepal since Monday. In…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Outback town of Quilpie (Quill-Pea) hoped its offer of free residential…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A senior U.S. official says the United States is at a turning point in deciding how to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish state broadcaster TRT News says six suspects have been jailed pending trial over an alleged plot against Chechen…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has kicked off an annual air force drill across the country, a week after holding another massive exercise in air defense.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Joshua Samuel painfully recalls the day, one year ago, that Nigerian soldiers opened fire…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A wave of buying in the last hour of trading left stocks mostly higher on Wall Street, enough…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A powerful autumn storm has blasted across parts of Europe, killing four people in Poland and causing damage and disruption…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s leading financial magazine has been dropped from an official list of outlets websites can republish, reducing the exposure…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s government is warning that the country could well be on the cusp of another major surge in COVID-19 cases despite…

BEIJING (AP) — At least three people have been killed and 30 injured in an apparent gas explosion at a hotel in the northern Chinese city of…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new environmental protection minister has set some ambitious goals: Tamar Zandberg…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MAHBAS REGION, Western Sahara (AP) — For nearly 30 years, the vast territory of Western Sahara in the North African…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military will appeal a landmark court ruling that struck down its…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s new governor-general says she plans to reach out to people…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Premier Hockey Federation has reached an agreement to make ESPN+ the exclusive home for watching games in this U.S. this…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who avoided execution in February has been put to death for the 1991 killing of…