Buttigieg’s star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts toward him
By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure…
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Pope to politicians: Be courageous, show vision on climate
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks…
Continue Reading Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded…
Continue Reading Pakistan frees 20 Indian fishermen, hundreds yet in prison
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of…
Continue Reading Austria orders nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to combat…
Continue Reading In long-awaited move, Kuwait’s emir pardons dissidents
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three…
Continue Reading Rights group: Israeli settler violence tool to seize land
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says Israel has been using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from…
Continue Reading Gadhafi’s son announces candidacy for president of Libya
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s election agency says the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar…
Continue Reading Pope: Don’t judge the poor, often victims of injustice
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is decrying society which “hurries past” the poor, judges them and…
Continue Reading Dubai Air Show opens to industry on the mend amid COVID-19
By AYA BATRAWY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s biennial Air Show has opened to a world still reeling…
Continue Reading Fire in COVID hospital kills 3 in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Officials say a fire broke out on a ward for COVID-19 patients in Bulgaria, killing three people. The fire in the southern…
Continue Reading Queen sprains back, misses Remembrance Sunday service
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has missed out on the Remembrance Sunday service in London to pay tribute to…
Continue Reading Smog chokes Indian capital as air pollution levels soar
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Air pollution in the Indian capital has hit dangerous levels again this winter, as thick, gray…
Continue Reading Polish PM mulls asking NATO to hold talks amid border crisis
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering asking NATO…
Continue Reading Polish Muslim leader helps feed migrants and soldiers
By ADAM PEMBLE and MATTHIAS SCHRADER BOHONIKI, Poland (AP) — Maciej Szczęsnowicz cried when he saw migrants at the border for the first time,…
Continue Reading Kosovo governing party loses capital in runoff mayoral vote
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Preliminary results in Kosovo’s runoff municipal elections Sunday show the governing party suffered a heavy blow in…
Continue Reading ‘Europe’s last dictator’ raises the stakes with the West
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — For most of his 27 years as the authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has disdained…
Continue Reading As virus surges in Eastern Europe, leaders slow to act
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination…
Continue Reading Al-Jazeera says bureau chief detained by Sudanese forces
By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Qatar-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera says its bureau chief in Sudan has been…
Continue Reading Anti-corruption party holds lead in Bulgaria’s elections
By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A newly founded anti-corruption party holds a narrow lead in the preliminary vote count…
Continue Reading Myanmar political standoff leaves economy in tatters
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer The military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and…
Continue Reading Japan’s former princess leaves for US with commoner husband
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese princess who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner college sweetheart has…
Continue Reading 4 people killed in plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island
BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say four of five people aboard a commuter plane have died when it crashed on an island in Lake Michigan.…
Continue Reading Venezuelan musicians pursue world’s largest orchestra record
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, mostly children and adolescents, have attempt…
Continue Reading John Artis, co-defendant of ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 75
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — A man who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder case has died. John Artis was 75. He…
Continue Reading 3 snow leopards with COVID-19 die at Lincoln Children’s Zoo
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three snow leopards have died at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska of complications from COVID-19. The zoo made the…
Continue Reading 8 dead from COVID, 89 infected at Connecticut nursing home
CANAAN, Conn. (AP) — Eight residents of a nursing home in Connecticut have died during a coronavirus outbreak, while 89 residents and employees…
Continue Reading Protest erupts in Dutch city on 1st night of new lockdown
UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Protests have broken out in a northern Dutch city as a new coronavirus lockdown imposed amid soaring infections forced…
Continue Reading Scottsdale police investigating school board president
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Scottsdale police announced Saturday that they were investigating allegations against a school board president after the…
Continue Reading Federal court rejects Oklahoma death row inmates appeal
By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of four Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled…
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