Month: December 2021

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A six-story condominium building that was the subject of structural complaints dating back to June 2020 has been evacuated in…

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Antony Sher, one of the most acclaimed Shakespearean actors of his generation, has died aged 72. The…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.N expert says contemporary forms of slavery exist in Sri Lanka, with vulnerable…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Council of Europe’s committee on torture has harshly criticized Croatia over “severe ill-treatment” of…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 725,000 SUVs and pickup trucks because the hoods can open while the vehicles are moving. The recall covers…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The newly installed mayor of Rochester, New York, is in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus last month.…

By ABDOULIE JOHN and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambians are getting ready to vote in a historic election that…

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida teenager is accused of making a school shooting threat against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dozens of flag-waving demonstrators from a Kurdish organization have broken into the grounds of the global chemical…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British study has found that Black and other members or racial and ethnic minorities in the U.K…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s new parliament has convened for its first session following the country’s third parliamentary election of the…

BERLIN (AP) — German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it is suspending four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have decreed that they are banning the forced marriage of women in the war-torn country, in what appears to…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Muslim mob descended on a sports equipment factory…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer says he will be the acting leader of the conservative People’s Party and will seek to…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A research institute’s analysis has concluded the incoming German government’s plans for…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin will seek binding guarantees…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press RANYA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurds seem to make up the majority of Middle Eastern migrants seeking to move to Europe…

BEIJING (AP) — The prime minister of Laos has ridden the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built train connecting his isolated, mountainous…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Europe’s democracy and human rights-promoting body says it is initiating a disciplinary…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — An investigation into the disorder at the European Championship final says aggression by…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, President Joe Biden has taken it on the chin from Republicans over his handling of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says more than 1% of the population is currently infected with the…

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish media says an attack by Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq has killed at least 12 people,…

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed an Islamic rebel leader and four of his men in fighting in the volatile south in the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party has held onto a seat in Parliament in a special election triggered by a lawmaker’s death.…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Indian authorities have issued an alert, shut schools and canceled trains in parts of the…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police say they have arrested seven people suspected of war crimes against civilians during the 1992-95…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer has warned it might not be able to pay a $400 million bond due next week, adding to financial strain…

By BARBARA SURK and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — France has announced multibillion-euro deals to sell fighter…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s beleaguered currency has been plunging to all-time lows against the U.S. dollar…