Month: September 2022

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence…

By DAVID A. LIEB and KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press Standing 14 stories tall, the Docking State Office Building is one of Kansas’ largest and…

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government says a planned meeting of the nine leaders of Europe’s Mediterranean countries will be postponed because…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Norway say several people in a violent crowd attempted to enter the Iranian Embassy in Oslo. Scuffles broke…

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…