
Heavy rains, flooding in Bolivia kill at least 12 this month
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Heavy rains in Bolivia this month have killed at least 12 people, flooded crops and damaged roads, according to authorities.…
Continue ReadingLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Heavy rains in Bolivia this month have killed at least 12 people, flooded crops and damaged roads, according to authorities.…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying…
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The doctor for a private Christian boarding school that has been the focus of an abuse investigation in Missouri has been…
Continue ReadingMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art by passing the same hard candy back…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has imposed a four-year prison sentence on a 41-year-old man convicted of attempted murder for firing…
Continue ReadingOAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a suspected gunman was among four people who were wounded during a shootout at a suburban Chicago shopping mall…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two antiviral pills are the latest additions to the handful of therapies to treat COVID-19 in…
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says it expects the U.S. to respond next month to Moscow’s request for security…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Children younger than 5 can’t get COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. yet, but there are steps you can take to protect them from…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 Turkish nationals and a Chicago-based foundation it accuses of having links to terror groups. A…
Continue ReadingNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newly released video shows a security officer leaping over conveyor belt rollers and saving a 2-month-old boy who stopped…
Continue ReadingBy ULIANA PAVLOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook’s parent company Meta $27…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired more than a dozen of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. The Friday…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II is expected to offer a particularly personal Christmas Day message to the nation…
Continue ReadingBy NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds took to the streets in several Libyan cities to protest the cancellation of Friday’s…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH and TALI ARBEL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights as the omicron variant jumbled schedules…
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least 13 people have died after a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea. That…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Central Group and Signa of Austria have confirmed plans to buy luxury British department store chain Selfridges.…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Protesters angry over virus and vaccine rules have occupied Guadeloupe’s regional legislature because of stalled negotiations over…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record 5.4 trillion yen ($47 billion) defense budget for fiscal…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has denounced a U.S. law that restricts imports from Xinjiang as a violation of international law and…
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY, DAVID McHUGH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say a German man who fled after losing his final appeal of a murder conviction for the 1993 killing of a…
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — While many college athletes have profited from recent rules allowing them to make money…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The surge in coronavirus cases driven by the new…
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