Bulgaria, Romania see benefits and snags since joining EU
By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Fifteen years after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union, many residents…
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German watchdog puts Google under closer antitrust scrutiny
LONDON (AP) — Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount…
Continue Reading Brazil’s Bolsonaro is released from hospital after two days
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in Sao Paulo, where he spent two days after an intestinal…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Staff writers for The New York Times and The New Yorker, an art expert based in Rome and an associate professor at Oxford…
Continue Reading Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast
By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Glennon Doyle hates giving advice. The author of the best-selling memoir “Untamed” says she just wants to help…
Continue Reading Omicron variant fuels record number of infections in Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Officials in Croatia say that omicron variant of the coronavirus has fueled the highest number of daily new infections in…
Continue Reading UN peacekeepers attacked in south Lebanon near Israel border
BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. official says unknown perpetrators have attacked a group of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, vandalizing their vehicles…
Continue Reading Niger police seize 440 pounds of cocaine from mayor of town
By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger officials say that police have seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine…
Continue Reading Israel issues first sentence in mob attack on Arab driver
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court has sentenced a man to a year in prison for his involvement in the…
Continue Reading FBI still hunting Jan. 6 suspects, pipe bomber a year later
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of people who…
Continue Reading How to attract busy contractors to your home remodel
By ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet The busy season for home remodeling usually ends in late summer or early fall, but contractors say demand from the…
Continue Reading Edmunds: New cars and missing features, what you can do
By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The semiconductor chip shortage and supply chain disruption have forced many automakers to remove certain features from…
Continue Reading Poland’s president tests positive for COVID for 2nd time
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide says Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time but has no serious…
Continue Reading Sweden creates agency to combat fake news ahead of election
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden has created an agency to combat disinformation as the country approaches a September general election. The…
Continue Reading UK authorities ease COVID testing requirements in England
By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. health authorities have eased COVID-19 testing requirements in England. The…
Continue Reading Bulgaria’s foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s foreign minister has tested positive for the coronavirus as the European Union member country experiences a…
Continue Reading Main German opposition party backs second term for president
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest opposition party says it will support the reelection of President Frank-Walter…
Continue Reading Top conservative Saudi cleric who once headed judiciary dies
By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — An influential Saudi cleric who once served for years as head of…
Continue Reading Russia-led alliance sending peacekeepers to Kazakhstan
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russia-led military alliance says it will dispatch peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan after the…
Continue Reading Vatican novelty to start New Year as pope urges adoption
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has called for making it simpler for couples to adopt children as he presided over his…
Continue Reading Novak Djokovic denied entry to Australia, has visa canceled
By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s chance to play for a 10th Australian Open title has been thrown into…
Continue Reading Chinese developer asking bondholders to postpone repayment
BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese real estate developer with $310 billion of debt is asking investors in one of its bonds to postpone when they…
Continue Reading S. Korea military apologizes for defector’s border crossing
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military has apologized for causing public concern about its security…
Continue Reading Bases housing US troops in Iraq, Syria come under attack
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. and the Iraqi military say Katyusha rockets have struck Iraqi military bases hosting…
Continue Reading Report: Ethiopia detains many Tigrayans deported from Gulf
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials in Ethiopia have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared thousands of ethnic Tigrayans who recently were…
Continue Reading German health minister advocates tougher curbs on contacts
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister is advocating tougher curbs on contact between people as the country prepares for a new rise in…
Continue Reading ‘We were trapped’: Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper…
Continue Reading NFL teams providing female fans with clubs of their own
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — More than half of the NFL’s 32 teams have female fan clubs. The Detroit Lions’ Women of…
Continue Reading Asian stocks follow Wall St lower after Fed rates signal
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street lower after investors saw minutes from a Federal…
Continue Reading Virus surge tests limits of primary health care in Europe
By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — An unprecedented number of coronavirus infections is once again exposing the underfunding and…
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