Month: December 2022

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party has been attacked during an anti-government protest held…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Environmental leaders are gathering on Montreal to hammer out a framework they hope will help…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s lawmakers have postponed until next week a debate on the damning report…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers and governments reached a deal Tuesday that would ban the import of products which contribute to…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The COVID-19 pandemic sent Heidi Whitney’s daughter into a tailspin. Suddenly the San Diego middle…

BERLIN (AP) — A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online has gone on trial in the western city of Cologne accused of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A newly founded Japanese semiconductor company aiming to revive Japan’s chip industry has signed…

BANGKOK (AP) — Three Thai railway workers have been killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded as they were clearing the wreckage of an…

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Protesters have tried to force their way into Mongolia’s State Palace, incensed by allegations of corruption…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has again threatened to “take action” against Greece if it continues to deploy weapons on its…

By STEVE PEOPLES and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Latvian media authorities have revoked the license of an independent Russian TV channel exiled in the Baltic country for,…

GDYNIA, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defense minister have taken delivery of a first shipment of tanks and…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s president has canceled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Residents of a Roma settlement have lit fires near a police station outside…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry says the country strictly adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons “at any time and…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A rift between the European Union and member state Hungary has deepened after Budapest vetoed an…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency has visited a West Virginia county…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones struck inside Russia’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday in the second day of attacks…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LLAZAR SEMINI TIRANA, Albania (AP) — EU leaders and their Western Balkans counterparts are to meet for talks aimed at…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Members of South Korea’s ruling conservative party have proposed a bill that would…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday after Wall Street declined on fears the Federal Reserve will need to keep…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Memphis police officer was wounded and a man was killed during a shootout following a call about a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees in northern Afghanistan, killing six people.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is trying to win over the Republican-controlled…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five…

By AMANDA SEITZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House and Senate leaders have bestowed…