Czech president swears in opposition leader as new premier
By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech president has sworn in Petr Fiala as the country’s new prime minister following last…
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IS roadside bomb in Iraq leaves 5 peshmerga dead, 4 wounded
BAGHDAD (AP) — The official state news agency of Iraq’s Kurdish-run region says a roadside bomb attack by Islamic State group fighters in…
Continue Reading Camped in Calais, migrants renew resolve to try for England
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — At the makeshift camps near Calais and Dunkirk, migrants are digging in, waiting for their…
Continue Reading EU plane to monitor migrants on Channel shores after deaths
CALAIS, France (AP) — The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant boats after 27…
Continue Reading More omicron cases pop up as world rushes to learn more
By MIKE CORDER, GEIR MOULSON and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus…
Continue Reading In French Pantheon, Josephine Baker makes history yet again
By ARNO PEDRAM and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a…
Continue Reading Swiss vote to approve COVID restrictions as infections rise
BERLIN (AP) — Swiss voters have given clear backing to legislation that introduced special COVID-19 certificates under which only people who have…
Continue Reading Israel tightens travel restrictions over new COVID variant
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its…
Continue Reading Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary vote boosts president’s clout
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Kyrgyzstan held a parliamentary election just over a year after a forceful change of…
Continue Reading Pakistan says militants kill 2 soldiers near Afghan border
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The military says militants have targeted a Pakistani military post in the northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan…
Continue Reading Leftist holds commanding lead in Honduran presidential vote
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro is holding a commanding lead as…
Continue Reading WTA remains “concerned’ about Peng’s ability to speak freely
By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The head of the Women’s Tennis Association says he remains “deeply concerned” about the whereabouts of…
Continue Reading Feds apprehend stowaway on flight from Guatemala to Miami
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities have taken into custody a 26-year-old man who apparently stowed away in the landing gear compartment of an American…
Continue Reading Beloved Honduran mayor stood out in bloody electoral season
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press CANTARRANAS, Honduras (AP) — Two weeks before Honduran elections, Cantarranas Mayor Francisco Gaitan…
Continue Reading Police: Man shot at NC mall remains in critical condition
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say that a man remains in critical condition following a shooting at a shopping mall that was packed…
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500 vigilantes gather in Mexico town, pledge to aid police
By ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press NUEVO URECHO, Mexico (AP) — Extortion of avocado growers in western Mexico has gotten so bad that 500 vigilantes…
Continue Reading Nashville police: 3 dead, 4 wounded in apartment shooting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a shooting in a Tennessee apartment has left three people dead and four others wounded. A suspect was among…
Continue Reading Flood watches issued in Northwest as some urged to evacuate
By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Residents in Washington are preparing for possible flooding as “atmospheric rivers” once again…
Continue Reading Afghan prime minister defends Taliban’s rule amid crisis
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister is defending the group’s rule amid a worsening economic crisis. In his first…
Continue Reading Police investigate Black Friday mall shooting in Washington
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Washington state are investigating a shooting at a shopping mall that left one person seriously wounded and sent…
Continue Reading News crew guard dies after being shot in attempted robbery
DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A security guard has died after he was shot while protecting a San Francisco Bay Area…
Continue Reading Donations pour in for Missouri man freed after 43 years
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in…
Continue Reading Russia jails 5 people over coal mine disaster that killed 51
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending…
Continue Reading German minister hopes patient transfers a ‘wake-up call’
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a…
Continue Reading COVID-19 positive Czech president discharged from hospital
PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Miloš Zeman has been discharged from the capital’s military hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus.…
Continue Reading Bob Dylan artwork show opens in Miami, new cinema paintings
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master…
Continue Reading Spanish police protest government plan to reform ‘gag law’
By ALICIA LEON and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spanish police officers and their supporters have marched in…
Continue Reading Austria arrests 15 people suspected of smuggling migrants
BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they have arrested 15 people suspected of smuggling Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants into the country…
Continue Reading Dutch government apologizes for discredited transgender law
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has publicly apologized for a now discredited and scrapped law that required transgender people…
Continue Reading Anti-government protesters block bridges, roads in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Skirmishes have erupted in Serbia between police and anti-government demonstrators who briefly blocked roads and bridges in…
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