Month: December 2021

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say six people were shot as six gunmen fired dozens of shots on a street full of businesses late Thursday.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Word List” have a message for texting and…

AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people died when a higher speed commuter train hit their car as the driver tried to make it around the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…

By WILSON RING Associated Press From minimum wage increases to animal protection to police accountability to both cutting and increasing taxes a…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and killed a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold, triggering…

SYDNEY (AP) — New coronavirus infections have soared again in Australia to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…

By JOHN LEICESTER and NICK PERRY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in the fourth calendar…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press An anguished encounter between two titans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle during the…