Albanian prime minister apologizes over database leak
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has apologized for a large leak of personal records from a government database of state and…
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Turkey, Qatar to discuss Kabul airport plans with Taliban
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run agency says a joint Turkish and Qatari delegation is traveling to Afghanistan to discuss plans for…
Continue Reading US jobless claims unchanged at 205,000
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at a historically…
Continue Reading Greece cancels Christmas events, brings back mask mandate
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Christmas concerts and other events have been canceled in Greece under new restrictions that include a general mask mandate…
Continue Reading Pope shakes up office that handles migration, COVID
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has removed the head of the Vatican office that handles the high-priority issues of…
Continue Reading Turkish court once again extends philanthropist’s jail term
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has again ruled to keep businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala behind bars, despite a decision from…
Continue Reading Talks on Iran nuclear deal to resume in Vienna on Monday
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union says negotiators from Iran and five world powers that are trying to revive Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal…
Continue Reading Israeli opposition lawmaker to resign under plea deal
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Justice Ministry says it has reached a plea deal with a powerful opposition lawmaker that will see him…
Continue Reading Crews extinguish Texas refinery fire that left four injured
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Crews have extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that left four people injured. The fire started at about 1…
Continue Reading Belgium commits to phasing out existing nuclear power plants
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian government has tentatively committed to phasing out the country’s existing nuclear…
Continue Reading UK data suggest hospitalization is less likely with omicron
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s public health agency says preliminary data suggest that people with the omicron variant…
Continue Reading Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain
By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing more than $241 million in grants to bolster…
Continue Reading In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
By MATT O’BRIEN and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words…
Continue Reading 5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Five teenagers were charged Thursday after the vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary…
Continue Reading U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations report estimates that 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022.…
Continue Reading Putin to the West: ‘It is not us who threaten anyone’
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the West to “immediately” meet Russia’s…
Continue Reading German police seek tips on fugitive convicted of 1993 murder
BERLIN (AP) — Police have launched a manhunt for a 56-year-old German who went on the run this week after losing his final appeal of a murder…
Continue Reading Pope demands humility in new zinger-filled Christmas speech
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this…
Continue Reading 2021 Notebook: US withdrawal and Afghanistan’s next chapter
By The Associated Press For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter. The Taliban quickly…
Continue Reading Renowned Tiananmen massacre monument removed in Hong Kong
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen…
Continue Reading Ex-Tunisian president convicted of undermining security
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s state news agency says a court has sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to four years in…
Continue Reading German health minister expects virus surge around New Year’s
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around the New Year period, as the national disease control…
Continue Reading US denies man held in Turkey for fake passport is diplomat
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. officials have denied an American citizen who was arrested in Turkey for allegedly providing a fake passport to a Syrian…
Continue Reading To grandmother’s house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans
By LAURA UNGAR and TALI ARBEL Associated Press For the second year in a row, the ever-morphing coronavirus presents would-be holiday revelers with a…
Continue Reading Jury in Elizabeth Holmes trial hears replay of her boasts
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes returned to the…
Continue Reading Intel apologizes for asking suppliers to avoid Xinjiang
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Intel Corp. has apologized for asking suppliers to avoid sourcing goods from Xinjiang after the…
Continue Reading China puts city of 13 million in lockdown ahead of Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — China has plunged a city of 13 million people into lockdown to stamp out an increase in coronavirus infections, as the country…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?
By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for…
Continue Reading Changing climate parches Afghanistan, exacerbating poverty
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SANG-E-ATASH, Afghanistan (AP) — Fed by rain and snowmelt from mountains, this valley nestled among…
Continue Reading Asian stock markets follow Wall St up as omicron fears ease
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have risen after Wall Street hit a new high as fears of the coronavirus’s…
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