Belgium commits to phasing out existing nuclear power plants
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian government has tentatively committed to phasing out the country’s existing nuclear…
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UK data suggest hospitalization is less likely with omicron
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s public health agency says preliminary data suggest that people with the omicron variant…
Continue Reading Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain
By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing more than $241 million in grants to bolster…
Continue Reading In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores
By MATT O’BRIEN and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words…
Continue Reading 5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Five teenagers were charged Thursday after the vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary…
Continue Reading U.N. says 22 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2022
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations report estimates that 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022.…
Continue Reading Putin to the West: ‘It is not us who threaten anyone’
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the West to “immediately” meet Russia’s…
Continue Reading German police seek tips on fugitive convicted of 1993 murder
BERLIN (AP) — Police have launched a manhunt for a 56-year-old German who went on the run this week after losing his final appeal of a murder…
Continue Reading Pope demands humility in new zinger-filled Christmas speech
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this…
Continue Reading 2021 Notebook: US withdrawal and Afghanistan’s next chapter
By The Associated Press For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter. The Taliban quickly…
Continue Reading Renowned Tiananmen massacre monument removed in Hong Kong
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen…
Continue Reading Ex-Tunisian president convicted of undermining security
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s state news agency says a court has sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to four years in…
Continue Reading German health minister expects virus surge around New Year’s
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around the New Year period, as the national disease control…
Continue Reading US denies man held in Turkey for fake passport is diplomat
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. officials have denied an American citizen who was arrested in Turkey for allegedly providing a fake passport to a Syrian…
Continue Reading To grandmother’s house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans
By LAURA UNGAR and TALI ARBEL Associated Press For the second year in a row, the ever-morphing coronavirus presents would-be holiday revelers with a…
Continue Reading Jury in Elizabeth Holmes trial hears replay of her boasts
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jurors in the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes returned to the…
Continue Reading Intel apologizes for asking suppliers to avoid Xinjiang
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Intel Corp. has apologized for asking suppliers to avoid sourcing goods from Xinjiang after the…
Continue Reading China puts city of 13 million in lockdown ahead of Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — China has plunged a city of 13 million people into lockdown to stamp out an increase in coronavirus infections, as the country…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?
By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for…
Continue Reading Changing climate parches Afghanistan, exacerbating poverty
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SANG-E-ATASH, Afghanistan (AP) — Fed by rain and snowmelt from mountains, this valley nestled among…
Continue Reading Asian stock markets follow Wall St up as omicron fears ease
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have risen after Wall Street hit a new high as fears of the coronavirus’s…
Continue Reading Another danger to illicit drug users: Animal tranquilizer
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press CHESTER, Vt. (AP) — An animal tranquilizer is turning up in drug overdoses across the country. A report from the…
Continue Reading Bustling bars, surging business: Dubai sees a post-vax boom
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The globalized city-state of Dubai appears to be in the midst of a boom season.…
Continue Reading US delays intelligence center targeting foreign influence
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years have passed since Congress directed the creation of an intelligence center to lead…
Continue Reading Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for children?
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer’s vaccine has been authorized by U.S. regulators for younger children, and millions of teens already…
Continue Reading US tribes see hope for clean water in infrastructure bill
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, FELICIA FONSECA and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) — The massive infrastructure bill signed earlier this…
Continue Reading A village in India’s northeast mourns after deadly attacks
By YIRMIYAN ARTHUR Associated Press OTING, India (AP) — High up in the hills along India’s border with Myanmar, Oting village in the…
Continue Reading S. Korea marks deadliest day of pandemic as omicron looms
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has set a new record for COVID-19 deaths as officials warn that the highly…
Continue Reading Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death
By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her…
Continue Reading US Navy says it seizes arms from Iran likely bound for Yemen
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it has seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition…
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