Month: October 2021

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Protesters are gathering in the heart of London’s historic financial district to lobby against the use of fossil fuels ahead of the start of the U.N. climate summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The protests Friday are part of a worldwide day of action before leaders

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices across the 19 European Union countries that use the euro currency have spiked to the highest level in over 13 years. Inflation in the 19 countries, like elsewhere in the world, has been soaring amid rising energy prices, supply chain backups and labor shortages tied

By ILAN BEN ZION and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — For years, Zebulon Simentov branded himself as the “last Jew of Afghanistan,” the sole remnant of a centuries-old community. He left the country last month for Istanbul after the Taliban seized power, but now it seems he wasn’t the last one. His distant

By NOHA ELEHNNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Sudanese general who seized power in a coup this week says the military he heads will soon appoint a technocrat prime minister to rule alongside it. Abdel-Fattah Burhan said in an interview with Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency published Friday that the new premier will form

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military says it has killed one of the country’s most-wanted Muslim militant leaders and his wife who were affiliated with the Islamic State group and were blamed for deadly bomb attacks, killings and extortion in the south for more than a decade. A regional military commander says army and

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida faces a crucial test in Sunday’s national parliamentary elections, which will determine if his government will have enough support to stay in power long enough to repair the pandemic-hit economy, and tackle climate change and China’s rise. Kishida dissolved the lower

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Talks to hammer out a new ruling Dutch coalition have broken the record for the longest post-election government formation negotiations. They hit 226 days Friday. The previous Dutch record was held by the last government, which was made up of the same four parties currently

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The G-20, whose annual summit plays out in Rome this weekend, has morphed from its creation in the 1990s as an international group to grapple with financial crises into a forum facing such pressing problems as worldwide vaccine access and climate change. Whether its structure is still

By SYLVIE CORBET and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden has told French President Emmanuel Macron that America was “clumsy” in its orchestration of a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia. The contract left France in the lurch because France believed it had a similar deal with Australia. Biden and Macron

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press NABEUL, Tunisia (AP) — A landmark case that helped galvanize Tunisia’s #MeToo movement has reached court, involving a legislator charged with sexual harassment and public indecency. Feminist activists held a small protest outside the courthouse, shouting chants and waving placards. In 2019, a schoolgirl posted photos on social media of

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei’s sales fell 32% from a year earlier in the first nine months of 2021 under U.S. sanctions and following the sale of its Honor smartphone brand. The chairman of Huawei Technologies Ltd. says its smartphone and other consumer-oriented businesses have been significantly

By DAVID McHUGH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — The global economy is giving leaders of the Group of 20 countries a lot to talk about at their summit this weekend in Rome. The presidents and prime ministers representing 80% of the global economy will confront a recovery hampered by an energy crunch

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are ending higher Friday as Wall Street closed out a milestone-setting week. Health care, communication services and technology companies rose. The three major indexes all set records: The S&P 500 rose 0.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3% and Nasdaq closed 0.3%

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is issuing an urgent appeal to world leaders ahead of the U.N. climate conference to take “radical decisions” to protect the environment and prioritize the common good. Francis delivered the “Thought for the Day” on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s morning radio program Friday ahead of the Sunday start of