Day: September 29, 2022

By DIANE JEANTET and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s presidential election Sunday is being contested by 11…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official says protests over the death of a woman who was being held by the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits dropped last week, a sign that few…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Battered by surging consumer prices and rising interest rates, the U.S. economy shrank at a…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government says residents whose wealth exceeds 3 million euros…

By LORI HINNANT, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of children from eastern Ukraine are…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to spend up to 200 billion euros helping consumers and businesses cope with the surge in energy prices. Chancellor Olaf…

By BHUMIKA SARASWATI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians will go to the polls for the fourth time in less than two years in a general…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian authorities say a man has died flooding in a northern Adriatic Sea port after the town was hit by a storm and…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police in Montenegro are raiding multiple locations in the county in search of suspected spies, officials said…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has passed a motion calling for…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, GANTRY MEILANA and HELENA ALVES Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says it imposed disciplinary sanctions on…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital has acquitted the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case.…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says it will end mandatory COVID-19 quarantines for people arriving from overseas beginning Oct. 13. The Central…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Ted Hui has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say almost 3 million children in flood-hit areas may miss at least one…

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — The Finnish government says it will significantly limit passenger traffic on Finland’s border with Russia, banning…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — In a rare admission of sexual harassment in Japan’s military, its army chief apologized to a…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has failed to elect a president, just weeks before incumbent President…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating how a convicted bombmaker was able to easily escape from a Nevada prison without anyone…

By JON GAMBRELL and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Friday will formally annex parts of Ukraine where separation…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will host a forum to…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States has been elected to head…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s future NATO membership will make the Nordic country a more interesting target for Russian intelligence and influencing…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and China are marking the 50th anniversary of normalizing their ties Thursday. On Sept. 29,…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Water up to waist-high flooded riverfronts and other areas of Thailand after a tropical…