Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is drawing attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the…
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Biden to be in South Carolina for 1st time since primary win
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is returning to South Carolina, the state that played a pivotal role in…
Continue Reading San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…
Continue Reading San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins and dirty…
Continue Reading German ship with burning timber cargo towed to Swedish port
HELSINKI (AP) — A fire-ravaged German-owned cargo vessel has been towed to port in the western Swedish city of Goteborg after a week-long blaze…
Continue Reading Serbia roads blocked for 3rd weekend of lithium mine protest
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Environmental protesters have blocked roads in Serbia for a third consecutive weekend to oppose plans for lithium mining.…
Continue Reading Pandamania: Twin cubs in French zoo take 1st steps in public
PARIS (AP) — First, a steady crawl. Then a short clumsy slide across the slick stone floor at their home at the Beauval Zoo south of Paris. Then…
Continue Reading 4 women met Maxwell as teens. They’re accusing her as adults
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An aspiring musician, a young British model, a struggling middle school dropout…
Continue Reading Some 400,000 Palestinians vote in rare municipal elections
By JACK JEFFERY RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are finally taking part in municipal elections across the occupied West Bank following…
Continue Reading UK scientists urge more restrictions to fight omicron surge
LONDON (AP) — British scientists are warning that the government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron…
Continue Reading Baker’s exit to offer chance for women, put pressure on GOP
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to forego a third term has sparked a scramble among…
Continue Reading Capitol rioters’ social media posts influencing sentencings
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that…
Continue Reading Croatia: Police find body of girl swept away in border river
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Police in Croatia say they found the body of a 10-year-old Turkish girl who was swept away while her family tried to cross a…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What’s behind ‘sordid’ evidence at Potter trial?
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After prosecutors spent nearly a day reconstructing the moments after a…
Continue Reading La Scala delays ballet season opener due to virus outbreak
ROME (AP) — Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks. At least one of the four…
Continue Reading France pushes vaccination campaign as virus cases increase
PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France want to accelerate vaccinations against the coronavirus before Christmas as infections surge and more people…
Continue Reading Turkey’s Erdogan says social media a ‘threat to democracy’
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described social media as one of the main threats to democracy. Erdogan discussed the…
Continue Reading Catholic women urge Vatican to sign Europe rights convention
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe…
Continue Reading Hamas says oxygen bottles exploded in Lebanon camp, not arms
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian Hamas group says that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were…
Continue Reading Banksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy. It’s a…
Continue Reading Bulgaria: Centrist party leader asked to form government
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given a mandate to form a new government to the prime minister-designate of a centrist party that…
Continue Reading Strahan flies to space with astronaut’s daughter: ‘Wow!’
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket. The Amazon founder’s space company…
Continue Reading Taiwan records first omicron case in traveler from Africa
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health officials say Taiwan has recorded its first case of the omicron variant in a passenger who recently traveled to the…
Continue Reading UK seeks unity at G7 meeting over Russia’s ‘malign behavior’
By JILL LAWLESS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven nations were meeting in Liverpool…
Continue Reading Cuban family finds welcome, refugee status in distant Serbia
By JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba…
Continue Reading Pakistani gunmen attack police guarding polio team, 1 killed
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting…
Continue Reading Indian farmers end yearlong protests and return home
By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are clearing protest sites along the capital’s fringes and…
Continue Reading South African doctors see signs omicron is milder than delta
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health experts still don’t know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but…
Continue Reading Dole honored in Kansas as tough but compassionate statesman
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fellow Kansans have celebrated Bob Dole as a tough but compassionate patriot shaped by…
Continue Reading Anxiety high in Guatemala over victims of Mexico truck crash
By SONIA PEREZ D. and MANUEL DE LA CRUZ Associated Press CHEPOL, Guatemala (AP) — Anxiety is high in Guatemala amid uncertainty about loved ones…
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