Month: November 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s central bank governor says he asked an auditing firm to look into transactions and investments and that contrary to media…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A pro-military minister in Sudan says time is running out for the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is acquiring a new drilling ship to search for natural gas in the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — India’s startup Akasa Air has announced it’s choosing CFM International’s LEAP-1B turbofan engines to…

By KIYOKO METZLER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says it believes Iran has further increased its…

Thousands of Sikh pilgrims have arrived in Pakistan for an annual commemoration of the birth of their religion’s founder, officials said on…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials say groups of migrants who were camped in the cold on the Poland-Belarus…

LONDON (AP) — British police say the suspect who was killed in a Liverpool taxi explosion spent at least six months buying components for a bomb…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Filipino activists who were jailed and tortured during late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military court has handed down a reduced sentence to a Spanish woman who admitted to…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s number of daily COVID-19 deaths and new officially recorded cases have reached highs not seen since a…

LONDON (AP) — Amazon says it will stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom because of a dispute over fees. The e-commerce…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s executive body says same-sex couples will be able to get married in the rich Alpine nation starting on July 1 next…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United Kingdom surged at the fastest rate in nearly a decade in October amid…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — About 20,000 people have marched peacefully through Athens to mark the anniversary of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising in…

BERLIN (AP) — A pig farm in northern Germany is culling all of its animals after a case of African swine fever was confirmed there this week. The…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and Slovakia have reported record daily numbers of new coronavirus cases. The…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Dozens of relatives of two civilians killed in a gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir are…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency has reported 52,826 new coronavirus cases as infection rates…

MILAN (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says 10 people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A far-right TV pundit who is expected to run for the French presidency is going on trial for…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press FADA N’GOURMA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group is ravaging…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NAIROBI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his first official visit to Africa with an…

MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry says seven Azerbaijani service members were killed and 10 more were wounded in clashes with Armenia…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in New Delhi have closed schools indefinitely and shut some…

BEIJING (AP) — The head of the women’s professional tennis tour is questioning the legitimacy of a retraction Chinese state media says was from a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have mostly declined after indexes shuffled lower on Wall Street. Benchmarks fell in…

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe is short of gas. Russia could in theory supply more…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The head of Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission that failed to…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry had 37 points, easily winning matchup of the NBA’s top two scorers when Kevin…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tim Weah’s 11th-minute goal was matched by Michail Antonio’s spectacular 34-yard…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles will be renamed Crypto.com Arena on Christmas. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katharine Tai and Japan’s trade minister have agreed to work to…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Sudanese asylum-seekers in Israel fear last year’s normalization agreement between their…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Energy companies have offered a combined $192 million for drilling…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has executed a man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and…