Party-goers urged not to travel across UK as omicron surges
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…
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Yemen officials: Saudi airstrike kills 12 troops by mistake
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a…
Continue Reading France urges green habits with new car ads, bans on plastic
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…
Continue Reading US Postal Service recovers from poor holiday showing in 2020
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…
Continue Reading New laws take effect across US on abortion, policing, taxes
By WILSON RING Associated Press From minimum wage increases to animal protection to police accountability to both cutting and increasing taxes a…
Continue Reading Europe’s shared notes and coins turn 20 at New Year’s
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…
Continue Reading Media reps say 45 reporters, staffers died at work in 2021
BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last…
Continue Reading Israel: Palestinian shot, killed in alleged stabbing attempt
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and killed a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank…
Continue Reading Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…
Continue Reading UN food agency halts work in North Darfur, affects 2 million
By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur…
Continue Reading ‘A moral giant’: South Africans pay their respects to Tutu
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans of all walks of life are paying their respects to Desmond Tutu.…
Continue Reading Military: 4 Pakistani soldiers, 2 militants killed in raids
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold, triggering…
Continue Reading New virus infections driven by omicron soar in Australia
SYDNEY (AP) — New coronavirus infections have soared again in Australia to a record of more than 32,000, just days after surpassing 10,000 for the…
Continue Reading Cathay Pacific suspends cargo flights due to virus controls
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air…
Continue Reading Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…
Continue Reading Omicron’s New Year’s cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022
By JOHN LEICESTER and NICK PERRY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Muted New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world ushered in the fourth calendar…
Continue Reading A tense exchange highlights unsettled part of Tutu’s legacy
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press An anguished encounter between two titans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle during the…
Continue Reading Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — A woman displaced by war and drought in Afghanistan is fighting to save her…
Continue Reading Stocks end 2021 on a weak note, still notch big yearly gain
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Wall Street ended 2021 on a weak note Friday, but still managed to end the year with big gains. The S&P 500…
Continue Reading Chinese factory activity edges higher in December
BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity edged higher in December as supply disruptions eased and export demand weakened. The monthly…
Continue Reading ‘So many memories’: Over 500 homes feared destroyed by fire
By BRITTANY PETERSON, PATTY NIEBERG and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SUPERIOR, Colo. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Coloradans driven from their…
Continue Reading New York City ushers in 2022 with ball drop in Times Square
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square has arrived…
Continue Reading Biden talks sanctions, Putin warns of rupture over Ukraine
By AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the…
Continue Reading Behind the wait for a verdict at Maxwell jury deliberations
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial was a four-week winding road with…
Continue Reading Asia looks to China-focused trade bloc for virus recovery
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian countries are looking to a China-centered trade bloc encompassing about a third of…
Continue Reading Prince Andrew’s accuser insists she’s a US resident
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the woman who says Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 insist that…
Continue Reading Quebec reimposing nightly curfew for pandemic as cases rise
TORONTO (AP) — Quebec is reimposing a nighttime curfew beginning New Year’s Eve, and Ontario has delayed the resumption of school by two days as…
Continue Reading Suspect in fatal Japan clinic fire dies in hospital
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police say the suspect in a fire in Japan that killed 25 people has died at a hospital where he was…
Continue Reading Virus delays UN nuclear treaty meeting, possibly til August
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coronavirus surge has upended plans to hold a major nuclear treaty conference at the United…
Continue Reading Las Vegas memorial service for Harry Reid set for Jan. 8
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A memorial service honoring former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been scheduled for Jan. 8 at a performing arts…
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