Month: November 2021

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republicans fighting President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity. This week, Florida wrote natural immunity into state law as GOP lawmakers elsewhere are pushing similar measures to sidestep vaccine mandates. Lawsuits over the mandates have

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Much of downtown Des Moines, Iowa, has been transformed in the past decade by new apartments, shops and restaurants, but a stench from animal processing plants still often lingers over all that shiny new development. Many other cities across the country are dealing with similar

PARIS (AP) — France’s minister of the sea has vowed to “continue the fight” in the country’s dispute with Britain over fishing rights. Annick Girardin met with fishermen in northern France on Sunday. She told reporters “we fight every day for these ships, for these licenses and we will not give up.” Girardin denounced the

LONDON (AP) — A taxi driver injured when his passenger’s homemade bomb exploded in the northwest England city of Liverpool says it’s a “miracle” he is alive. In a message issued through the police, David Perry said he was “so thankful that no one else was injured in such an evil act.” British police have

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A 40-year-old Tunisian computer engineer turned corruption fighter will stand trial again in a military court Monday. He is accused of insulting the presidency and defaming the army. It is the latest in a series of trials that shine a light on Tunisia’s use of military

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has warned that migrant pressures on the European Union’s border with Belarus could continue, this time with people fleeing from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke Sunday in Vilnius following meetings with the prime ministers of Lithuania and Estonia. He was

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some Democrats have begun saying out loud what others are saying privately — that Joe Biden’s political standing is so weak less than a year into his presidency that he may not be able to win reelection in 2024 if he were to run

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden’s social agenda bill. Drug companies would have to pay rebates to Medicare if they increase prices above the rate of inflation. Business groups are paying close

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Brussels to protest reinforced COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Belgian government to counter the latest spike in coronavirus cases. Many among the 35,000 at the rally Sunday had already left for home when the demonstration descended into violence. Several

BY ELODIE SOUPAMA AND SYLVIE CORBET LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France is sending police special forces to its overseas Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe as protests over COVID-19 restrictions have erupted into rioting and looting for the third day in a row. Residents expressed their dismay after the violence. On Sunday, many road blockades by

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment. Francis urged them to “be the critical conscience of society.” He spoke at a Mass Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark a church day focused on youth. The pope expressed thanks for when young people have

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to Black and Asian people getting sick and dying disproportionately from COVID-19. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the pandemic has highlighted health disparities along race and gender lines. Britain’s statistics office has found

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is set to sign a declaration of intent with neighboring Jordan on building a major solar power plant in the kingdom that will be used to generate electricity for Israel. That plant also would power a desalination plant there to send water onto Jordan. That’s according to Eyal

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has gone into a nationwide lockdown to combat skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The measures took effect early Monday and are expected to last for a maximum of 20 days. But they will be reevaluated after 10 days. The new restrictions require people to stay home apart from

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed violence that erupted the previous night at a protest against coronavirus restrictions. The violence Saturday night by groups of youths in The Hague and elsewhere

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen have shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The top administrator in Harnai district in Baluchistan province said Sunday the early morning violence took place in the Sharag area where most of the province’s coal

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America The class of U.S. Rhodes scholars for 2022 includes the largest number of women ever selected for the scholarship in one year. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday that 22 women are among the 32 students chosen to study at the University of Oxford in England. The selection process

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say that a German reporter was briefly detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia with a group of migrants. Police said in a statement late Saturday that a court has ordered the 44-year-old German citizen to pay a fine of about 500 euros. The statement says

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices calling on pop star Justin Bieber to cancel his concert in Saudi Arabia next month. In an open letter published by The Washington Post, she urged the Canadian megastar to cancel

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile has warned that a rebel takeover of the crucial, energy-rich city of Marib would be a disaster on the scale of the collapse of its ancient dam that decimated an entire kingdom. Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak’s

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MANDALIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Toprak Razgatlioglu, a Yamaha rider, became the first-ever Turkish rider to win the Superbike World Championship after finishing second behind six-time world champion Jonathan Rea in the first of two races at the beachside Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit. The final round on

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas militant has opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one Israeli and wounding four others before he was fatally shot by Israeli police. It was not immediately clear whether Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, had ordered the attack or whether

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent Rumen Radev is the apparent winner in the country’s presidential runoff. Partial official results are expected later Sunday. Surveys by several polling groups give Radev, 58, about 65% of the vote. He is seeking a second five-year term in

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus infections and deaths. Vaccination rates in Eastern Europe have generally lagged and Ukraine has one of the lowest. But the situation has turned dire nearly two years since the virus swept into Europe because

By SAMY MAGDY and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest. According to the deal, signed Sunday, the military will also release government officials and politicians

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died. She was 84. Japanese media reports say Wada died Nov. 13. No cause of death was given. Wada was catapulted to stardom by the samurai costumes she