Some Indonesian students return to schools, at a distance
By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — School bells have rung in parts of Indonesia’s capital for the first…
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Asian shares mostly fall in muted trading amid virus worries
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly lower in muted trading on continuing concerns about surging COVID-19…
Continue Reading Author Murakami criticizes Japan PM over pandemic measures
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has criticized the country’s prime minister over his handling…
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Wildfire evacuees flood Lake Tahoe roads in rush to flee
By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fire is forcing thousands of people to rush to leave…
Continue Reading Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid
By REBECCA SANTANA and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks have brought hundreds of…
Continue Reading Bali bomb case starts in Guantanamo 18 years after capture
By BEN FOX Associated Press NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — Three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have had their first…
Continue Reading Taliban celebrate victory as U.S. troops leave Afghanistan
By KATHY GANNON, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters have watched the last U.S. planes…
Continue Reading Israel OKs gestures to Palestinians after high-level meet
By ILAN BEN ZION and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister has held talks with the Palestinian president in…
Continue Reading US flies more evacuees out as withdrawal deadline nears
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. war in Afghanistan is in its final hours as the military flew more…
Continue Reading Tropical Storm Nora fading, after leaving 1 dead, 7 missing
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Nora is dropping heavy rains along the Gulf of California after weakening from a hurricane that set off floods…
Continue Reading IAEA: N Korea appears to have resumed nuke reactor operation
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency says North Korea appears to have restarted the operation of its…
Continue Reading Asian shares mostly higher after US Fed signals on low rates
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors interpreted comments from the head of the U.S. Federal…
Continue Reading As Ida leaves Gulf, analysts foresee modest economic damage
By PAUL WISEMAN and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost…
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Tropical Storm Nora hugs Mexico’s coast; 1 dead, 7 missing
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Nora has weakened to a tropical storm as it causes floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast. At midday…
Continue Reading Police: Station shooting, Lyft driver’s death may be linked
PLANO, Texas (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine if there is a connection between a confrontation at a Dallas suburb in which police…
Continue Reading Poland detains activists for damaging barrier with Belarus
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thirteen activists have been detained in Poland for destroying part of a barbed wire fence that Polish authorities are…
Continue Reading No cash or gas to run from Ida: ‘We can’t afford to leave’
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America Robert Owens felt defeated and helpless Sunday as he waited for one of the most powerful…
Continue Reading Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated
MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters are battling a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-story residential building.…
Continue Reading Lake Tahoe threatened by massive fire, more ordered to flee
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials have ordered more evacuations around the Tahoe Basin as crews deal with a two-week old blaze.…
Continue Reading Trial opens for Florida man charged in 3 separate slayings
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trial has begun for a Florida man in one of three separate slayings he is accused of committing during a short period…
Continue Reading Afghans killed outside airport were seeking new lives abroad
By KATHY GANNON, RAHIM FAIEZ and SAYED ZIARMAL HASHEMI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Several young people who dreamed of a better life…
Continue Reading ‘Candyman’ slashes way toward No. 1 box office spot
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Candyman” has hooked the top spot at the North American box office. The…
Continue Reading Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91
By MARCELA ISAZA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Ed Asner, the blustery but lovable Lou Grant in two successful television series, has…
Continue Reading ‘As long as it takes’: FEMA, other agencies respond to Ida
By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of…
Continue Reading German chancellor candidates face off in 1st election debate
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The three candidates to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany’s election have sought to gain…
Continue Reading Messi era begins as PSG beats Reims; Mbappe scores 2
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer The Lionel Messi era has begun at Paris Saint-Germain. Messi finally made his debut for PSG in a 2-0 win at Reims…
Continue Reading Ida: Exclamation point on record onslaught of US landfalls
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Hurricane Ida tied for fifth strongest storm to hit the United States based on wind speed, but the whopper of a…
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Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — At a military base in Delaware, President Joe Biden stood witness with grieving…
Continue Reading Average US price of gas drops 2 cents per gallon to $3.23
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline dropped 2 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.23 per gallon. Industry…
Continue Reading Jacques Rogge, IOC president for 12 years, dies at 79
By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says Jacques Rogge, who led the organization as president…
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