Year: 2021

BERLIN (AP) — A young man has been severely injured when he fell off a slab that’s part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust. The 21-year-old tourist, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, fell several meters (feet) early Sunday and was

By TRISHA THOMAS and FRANCES D’EMILIO ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland. One rescue, of 303 migrants, began Saturday night and ended early Sunday

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister has summoned Cuba’s top diplomat in Madrid to explain why Havana has revoked the press credentials of five journalists on the island working for Spanish state news agency Efe. Spanish diplomatic sources told The Associated Press on Sunday that the Spanish embassy in

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media says two strong earthquakes have struck the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, leaving one person dead. Iran’s Seismological Center said that the quakes of magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 struck Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday afternoon, some 1000 kilometers (640 miles) south of the Iranian capital of

GENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery once used by the school that operated

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming. Francis in remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday said the cry of the poor, united to the cry of

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters. Prison official Arshad Shah said Sunday that the group left the Karachi central prison and boarded a bus for the eastern

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to combat rising coronavirus infections and deaths. The lockdown starts Sunday at midnight. The move prohibits unvaccinated people 12 and older from leaving their homes except for basic activities such as work, grocery shopping, going for