Month: November 2021

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-vaccine protesters have blocked central streets in the Ukrainian capital, protesting against state-imposed restrictions that require teachers, government employees and other workers to get fully vaccinated by Nov. 8 or have their salaries suspended. The government has also decided to bar the unvaccinated from using public

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Biden administration has announced it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday that NSO Group and three other firms are being

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel off Bandar Abbas. That’s according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press. One of the officials says Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops took

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has begun testing a massive inflatable missile detection system designed to hover at high altitudes and detect long-range threats. Israel already boasts an array of sophisticated missile defenses, which were used successfully during the 11-day Gaza war earlier this year. The High Availability Aerostat System is inflatable and resembles

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise apartment building under construction in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 23, the Lagos state governor says, as rescue crews continue to seek surviving workers in the rubble. Nine people had been saved as of Tuesday

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The rate of expansion in the U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, hit a record high in October as demand remained strong even as supply chain problems persisted. The Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday that its monthly survey of service industries jumped

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has met with Hungary’s president in Budapest, where the two leaders committed to achieving carbon neutrality in their countries by 2050. At a news briefing following talks with Hungarian President Janos Ader, Moon said bilateral trade between Hungary and South Korea

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have announced the arrest of the head of a company suspected of cheating overseas buyers of millions of dollars paid for undelivered medical rubber gloves during the coronavirus pandemic. Thai authorities have been cracking down on a surge in rubber glove fraud, including the

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say a Belarusian cargo plane has crashed while trying to land in eastern Russia, killing all seven people on board. The Soviet-built An-12 operated by Belarusian carrier Grodno crashed and caught fire near Irkutsk, eastern Siberia. Belarus’ Investigative Committee said that there were seven people on board and all of them

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book is currently untitled. It says the book will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to start scaling back the size of some of its government debt auctions, a sign that the government’s huge pandemic-driven borrowing needs are starting to ease. The government began selling debt at accelerated levels to fund the trillion-dollar-plus support bills Congress

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British homeowners and borrowers are bracing for a possible interest rate increase from the Bank of England. If the central bank makes that move Thursday, it would be the first by the world’s leading industrial nations since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Financial markets think the

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s police say 30 people face legal proceedings over a series of Twitter posts suggesting that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had died. A police statement said the 30 suspects are under investigation accused of allegedly sharing “disinformation and manipulative content” and insulting Erdogan. The development comes amid increased speculation concerning the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — England’s deputy chief medical officer says too many people believe the pandemic is over, and has warned that the U.K.’s very high coronavirus rates and rising deaths mean there are “hard months to come in the winter.” Jonathan Van-Tam also said Wednesday he was worried that increasing

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Last call could come three hours earlier in Miami Beach, where voters fed up with nighttime violence chose yes to rolling back the 5 a.m. closing time for alcohol sales. The voter referendum was held Tuesday in response to increasingly raucous crowds and public drinking in the South Beach entertainment

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARIA CHENG Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use license to a coronavirus vaccine developed in India. In a statement on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said it had authorized Covaxin, made by India’s Bharat Biotech. The decision makes Covaxin the eighth COVID-19

Germany’s health minister is calling for booster vaccinations to be stepped up and for more frequent checks of people’s vaccination or test status as new COVID-19 infections increase. Senior health officials also appealed anew on Wednesday to German residents who haven’t yet been vaccinated at all to get their shots. But Health Minister Jens Spahn

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say an anti-terrorism raid uncovered a tunnel being dug in the vicinity of the French ambassador’s residence. The Interior Ministry didn’t indicate the tunnel’s suspected purpose or say whether the ambassador’s residence was a target. But it said Wednesday that the starting point was a house frequented by a

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Daily coronavirus cases and deaths in Russia remain at their highest numbers of the pandemic. Russia’s state coronavirus task force reported more than 40,000 new confirmed cases for the fifth time in seven days.The task force on Wednesday also reported a daily record of 1,189 COVID-19 deaths.

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai police colonel, dubbed “Jo Ferrari” for his extravagant collection of fine cars, and six other officers have been charged with murder for allegedly killing a suspected drug dealer while trying to extort him for money. Officials say the suspects also face charges

RYAN ZUMMALLEN Edmunds  From low visibility to slippery road conditions, driving during the winter can be stressful. This week, the experts at Edmunds provide helpful tips and tricks about how to get ready for the months ahead by prepping your vehicle.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of Greek health care workers have protested in central Athens against mandatory coronavirus vaccines for their profession. About 300 demonstrators chanted slogans and held up banners outside the parliament building on Wednesday to protest regulations that call for unvaccinated health care workers to be suspended from their jobs. Health care

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Ships and aircraft from eight nations are taking part in annual drills to boost safety and security procedures on vessels and oil rigs off Cyprus’ southern coastline amid ongoing tensions with neighboring Turkey over competing claims to hydrocarbon reserves. The “Nemesis” exercise in which the U.S.,

By FRANK JORDANS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Governments and big investors have announced fresh plans to pour trillions of dollars into curbing global warming. The move reflects the financial world’s growing embrace of efforts to fight climate change as both a business necessity and opportunity. A group representing over 450

By AMANDA BARROSO of NerdWallet If you want to build your credit score, knowing your credit card limits and managing how you use them can help. A major factor in credit scores is credit utilization, which is simply how much of your credit limits you are using at a given moment. To know how you’re