China tightens political control of internet giants
By JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — After flourishing for two decades with little regulation, China’s internet…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — After flourishing for two decades with little regulation, China’s internet…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cyclone battering Oman has killed three people, including a child. Cyclone Shaheen made landfall Sunday night…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has warned the United Nation’s top body against making any statements…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has restricted its COVID Green Pass to allow only those who have received a vaccine booster dose or recently recuperated…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Millions of people are voting in Italy for new mayors including in the nation’s main…
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has refused permission for France to fly military planes in its airspace and announced the recall of its ambassador…
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Near-final results from nationwide municipal elections in Georgia show the ruling party well ahead of challengers, but the…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s Expo 2020 has acknowledged for the first time that three workers died…
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press GULU, Uganda (AP) — The remote Ugandan district of Gulu is currently a COVID-19 hot spot in the East African…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says a U.N. convoy in Mali’s northern Kidal region was attacked by improvised explosive devices which…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has flown more than 30 military planes toward Taiwan in its second large display of force in as many days. Taiwan’s…
Continue ReadingABOARD THE SEABIRD (AP) — An Italian offshore supply vessel has rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have suspended nine firefighters without pay in connection with a string of racist messages and memes they…
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil’s presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in Rio de Janeiro, Sao…
Continue ReadingBy KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Authorities say an electrician who got in an angry dispute with a supervisor attacked his coworkers at the Florida…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The death of an Illinois State Police trooper on a Chicago expressway has been ruled a suicide. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A century-old building originally used as a laundry by Chinese workers at Yosemite’s…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wants a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended…
Continue ReadingMUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer who was shot in the line of duty earlier this week has died at a hospital. Sheffield Police…
Continue ReadingBy AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say clashes between separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates and a…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska has activated emergency crisis protocols that allow 20 health care facilities to…
Continue ReadingBANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand people have rallied in Bosnia against the government in the Serb-dominated part of the…
Continue ReadingBy KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say they’ve found the body of a missing Florida college student who disappeared a…
Continue ReadingPALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Tesla says it delivered 241,300 electric vehicles in the third quarter even as it wrestled with a global shortage of…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says militants have targeted security forces in a vehicle travelling near the Afghan border,…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of hot-air balloons created a colorful tapestry against a blue sky in New Mexico’s largest city, kicking off a…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 5,000 far-right protesters have gathered in Romania’s capital of…
Continue ReadingBy BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged members Saturday at…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Houston say a driver fleeing from police in Houston struck and killed three valets before crashing into a ditch.…
Continue ReadingBy OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Brazilian Indigenous leader is appealing to France’s president to use his sway to fight…
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