Cap on drug price hikes for privately insured sparks battle
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription…
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Tens of thousands protest Belgium’s tighter COVID-19 rules
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Brussels to protest reinforced COVID-19…
Continue Reading ‘I lost everything’: Guadeloupe riots overtake COVID protest
BY ELODIE SOUPAMA AND SYLVIE CORBET LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France is sending police special forces to its overseas Caribbean territory of…
Continue Reading Pope to young people: We need you to protect environment
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment. Francis urged them to “be…
Continue Reading UK to probe racial bias in medical devices after COVID toll
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to…
Continue Reading Official: Israel to sign solar power deal with Jordan in UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is set to sign a declaration of intent with neighboring Jordan on building a major solar power plant in…
Continue Reading Austria begins national lockdown to fight surging infections
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has gone into a nationwide lockdown to combat skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The…
Continue Reading Dutch police arrest more than 30 amid ongoing unrest
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in…
Continue Reading Official: Gunmen shoot dead 3 coal miners in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen have shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. No one immediately claimed…
Continue Reading US Rhodes scholars for 2022 include record number of women
By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America The class of U.S. Rhodes scholars for 2022 includes the largest number of women ever selected for…
Continue Reading Croatia police say German reporter helped migrants cross
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say that a German reporter was briefly detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia…
Continue Reading Saudi critic’s fiancee urges Justin Bieber to cancel F1 show
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices…
Continue Reading Yemen official warns dam will break if rebels take Marib
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile has warned that a rebel…
Continue Reading Indonesia hosts World Superbike finale on brand-new circuit
By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MANDALIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Toprak Razgatlioglu, a Yamaha rider, became the first-ever…
Continue Reading Hamas gunman kills 1 before Israeli police shoot him dead
By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas militant has opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one Israeli and wounding…
Continue Reading Exit polls: Bulgarian president wins apparent reelection
By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent Rumen Radev is the apparent winner in the…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s doctors pushed to the limit by COVID-19 wave
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus…
Continue Reading Sudan military leaders reinstate deposed prime minister
By SAMY MAGDY and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will…
Continue Reading Reports: Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Wada dies
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s…
Continue Reading Relatives of virus dead question Japan’s stay-at-home policy
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Two women whose relatives died from the coronavirus at home are questioning the Japanese…
Continue Reading Venezuela votes in regional election under international eye
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have cast ballots for thousands of local races under the scrutiny of…
Continue Reading Far-right lawmaker, ex-protester to meet in Chilean runoff
By EVA VERGARA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Two onetime outsiders hailing from opposite extremes of the political…
Continue Reading China reduces ties with Lithuania in Taiwan spat
BEIJING (AP) — China has reduced its official relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level after Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing…
Continue Reading A year to go, Qatar World Cup still feels heat of scrutiny
By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The eight stadiums for the 2022 Qatar World Cup — all within a 30-mile radius of Doha — are now largely…
Continue Reading Olympic officials: Chinese tennis star Peng says she is safe
By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympic…
Continue Reading Oil sheen spotted near Southern California’s oil spill
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials are investigating an oil sheen spotted Saturday near last month’s crude pipeline leak off Southern…
Continue Reading Venezuelan musicians set world’s largest orchestra record
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world’s largest…
Continue Reading At Alcatraz Island, Haaland highlights Indigenous progress
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says progress has been made by Indigenous people. But during a visit Saturday to Alcatraz…
Continue Reading Fox says it did not pay for Rittenhouse film and interview
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Saturday said it did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse for any special access during his murder…
Continue Reading Hundreds protest Rittenhouse acquittal across US
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Law enforcement in Portland declared a riot Friday as about 200 demonstrators protested the acquittal of a teen who killed…
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