Month: January 2024

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by another 2.5 percentage points.…

PARIS Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The former leader of separatist rebels in Ukraine and a woman convicted of a bomb attack…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s top diplomat says his country has asked Russia to send back hundreds of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have pledged not to attack election rallies, saying their targets are…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has toured historic sites in India with Prime Minister Narendra…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Constitutional Council rejected several measures in a divisive new immigration law that critics call inhumane. It’s a…

HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has reported a double-digit decline in sales and a fall in profit in the last three months of 2023. The wireless and…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of antisemitic acts registered in France and Belgium have risen sharply since…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech lawmakers have voted against ratifying an international treaty on women’s rights. Only 34 of the 71 Senators present in the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — You’re in a crowded bar when a thief watches you unlock your iPhone with your passcode, then…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden says “enough is enough” on the issue of children being…

By PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press KREMS, Austria (AP) — An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated for lacerations at a…

By The Associated Press Russia and Ukraine are trading accusations over the crash of a military transport plane that Moscow said was carrying…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An official says one of five children hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat carrying 60 Syrian…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — It’s a tiny Pacific island nation, one of the world’s smallest. But on Friday elections in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday despite upbeat news on the U.S. economy, with…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress is reaffirming support for…