Month: August 2022

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s prime minister says she did not take any drugs during a “wild” party in a private home, adding she did…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will suspend all flights to Nigeria from September…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The international envoy tasked with overseeing a 1995 peace agreement for Bosnia has raised eyebrows with angry…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate despite inflation surging to nearly 80% and making it difficult for…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student to 34 years in prison for…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Israel’s Prime Minister that he condemns any attempts to…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of Africa’s public health agency says he’s “really pleased” that the…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan court has sentenced 13 migrants to two and a half years in prison over a mass attempt to scale the border fence…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s central bank chief hopes the government can reach a preliminary…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s foreign minister is accusing France of having colluded with the Islamic extremists that…

HONG KONG (AP) — Authorities in Hong Kong say 29 out of 47 pro-democracy activists charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Russian cargo ship that Ukraine alleges holds stolen wheat from territory…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After Terrence Hersey had a stroke on the way home from his railroad job in 2015, he underwent…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government is criticizing as “unethical” the statement by the World Health…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press The Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a new strategy to better engage with hundreds of Native American…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of train workers in Britain have staged a fresh round of strikes that is paralyzing rail…

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese official says that the death toll from seasonal floods has risen to 77 with 14,500 homes destroyed. Brig. Gen. Abdul-Jalil…

By SYLVIE CORBET and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Violent thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds in France and Italy have left at…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate by half a percentage point, saying “inflation has been…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s civil protection agency says wildfires raging in the country’s east have killed at least 37 people…

By SHONAL GANGULY and ALTAF QADRI NEW DELHI (AP) — A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of Unification Church followers have rallied in South Korea protesting…

JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kimi Raikkonen will take a break from his retirement to return to racing this weekend in…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban police spokesman in Afghanistan’s capital says the toll…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand say a family who bought abandoned goods from a storage unit…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Turkey’s leader and the U.N. chief met in Ukraine with President…