AP National Business

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Bars, restaurants and gyms can reopen in Auckland from early December but customers…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrians have begun a new 10-day national lockdown and many are wondering how they will endure…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed after a late drop left major Wall Street indexes mostly lower. Tokyo was closed…

BEIJING (AP) — China says five of its citizens have been kidnapped from a mining operation in eastern Congo. The Chinese Embassy in Kinshasa posted…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government expects 200,000 vaccinated foreign students and skilled…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Just over a week after some 200 nations struck an agreement aimed at…

By DAVID BARRAZA Associated Press LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says his government will build an oceanside…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Much of downtown Des Moines, Iowa, has been transformed in the past decade by new…

PARIS (AP) — France’s minister of the sea has vowed to “continue the fight” in the country’s dispute with Britain over fishing rights.…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Brussels to protest reinforced COVID-19…

BY ELODIE SOUPAMA AND SYLVIE CORBET LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France is sending police special forces to its overseas Caribbean territory of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has gone into a nationwide lockdown to combat skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent Rumen Radev is the apparent winner in the…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Two women whose relatives died from the coronavirus at home are questioning the Japanese…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, have marched…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has welcomed more than 200 foreign tourists to its largest island, the first to visit the Southeast Asian country…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZRENJANIN, Serbia (AP) — Vietnamese workers helping construct the first Chinese car tire factory in Europe say…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s market regulator has fined tech giants including Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings for failing to report corporate…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Canadian mining company hoping to build an open-pit gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone…