Month: August 2021

BERLIN (AP) — Google has announced that it is investing $1.2 billion by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The Internet giant said Tuesday that it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in Hanau, a town near Frankfurt.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital say they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who ate poisonous mushrooms with his family. However, his 5-year-old brother is in a coma and they are testing to see if he is brain dead. The boys and their older sister,

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Consumers are seeing higher prices in Europe. Official figures released Tuesday show annual inflation hit 3% in August. Economists say it’s mostly temporary. But that hasn’t stopped people from debating how long higher prices will last. The price jump could influence upcoming wage negotiations in

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and ROGELIO V. SOLIS Associated Press LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when their vehicles plunged into a large, muddy pit after a roadway collapsed in Mississippi. Part of state Highway 26 near Lucedale was washed away late Monday after torrential rainfall

By ALEXIA FERNANDEZ CAMPBELL The Center for Public Integrity A Center for Public Integrity investigation finds that the U.S. Postal Service regularly cheats mail carriers out of their pay. Arbitrators and federal investigators have found managers at hundreds of post offices around the country have illegally underpaid hourly workers for years. Private arbitration records from

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV says that a bomb-laden drone has targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, wounding eight people and damaging a civilian plane. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen blamed the assault on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. It’s the latest assault on the

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government replaced top officials in charge of public security in the wake of massive wildfires, but suffered an embarrassing political setback Tuesday when a newly named minister withdrew hours before he was due to be sworn in. Retired admiral Evangelos Apostolakis was named head of a newly created Civil

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh anti-terrorism tribunal has sentenced six Islamist militants to death in the brutal slayings of two men, including a prominent gay rights activist. Five years ago, assailants hacked to death Xulhaz Mannan, an editor of Bangladesh’s first gay rights magazine who had also worked for

BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics show that the number of unemployed people in Germany declined slightly in August, unusually for the summer month, while the country’s jobless rate remained steady at 5.6%. In its last jobs report before a national election on Sept. 26, the Federal Labor Agency said that 2.578 million were registered as

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police say 11 militants of the Islamic State group were killed in a raid in restive southwestern Baluchistan province. The pre-dawn raid on Tuesday took place in the district of Mastung, where IS militants had recently killed two police officers. The police say suicide belts, hand grenades and assault

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has reopened but then recessed its proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European Union law has primacy in the country. The Constitutional Tribunal said it would take up the question again on Sept. 22. The court’s ruling, when it comes, is expected to define the future