Month: October 2021

PARIS (AP) — French schools are paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of…

MADRID (AP) — A second 4.5-magnitude earthquake in two days has rattled the Spanish island of La Palma. The two quakes were the strongest to hit…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed…

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers…

BEIJING (AP) — Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China has renewed its commitment to international cooperation…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging former King Juan Carlos I to offer a public explanation of his suspected financial wrongdoings.…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland authorities have seized about $540,000 worth of smuggled Australian lobsters…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British health officials say an estimated 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In response to growing violence across Nigeria’s northwest and central states, governors…

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has appeared to criticize the global lack of action on climate change in comments caught on microphone. The…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it’s asked Interpol for help to arrest two foreigners including a…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACE and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — Residents of a Norwegian town are grappling with the horrible…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next month to make…

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The #MeToo reckoning hits its four-year mark this week, and Charlotte…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Funerals have taken place across Lebanon for seven people killed in gunbattles in the streets of…

By The Associated Press Americans have watched a public reckoning unfold since 2017 as the #MeToo movement exposed the prevalence of sexual assault…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (AP) — Zoltan Sztojka, by his own account Hungary’s last Roma fortuneteller, is working to…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is suing Toyota Motor Corp. over a patent for a technology used in electric…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, DARIA LITVINOVA and JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Millions from Latin America to the Middle…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&P 500 its best week since July. The…

By KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has long presented itself as a reliable U.S. ally in a turbulent Middle East, as a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has confirmed he will attend a climate summit in Glasgow…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of an entire motel and…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is grappling with the legacy of one of its…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The lawyers for accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz say he plans to plead…

By The Associated Press Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. says it plans to build a computer chip factory in Japan. TSMC’s CEO C.C. Wei…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and prized midseason…

By ASTRID GALVAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The latest restrictions in Texas that essentially ban abortion past the…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton will remain hospitalized overnight as he recovers from a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state New South Wales says it will end hotel quarantine for…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being…

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By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention official is resigning amid internal rifts over how to…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A major Southern California highway was reopened as firefighters made progress against a wildfire in a coastal…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration says it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A senior diplomat says Southeast Asia’s foreign ministers have decided not to invite…