Kaiser Permanente hit by strike votes in California, Oregon
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 24,000 nurses and other health-care workers at Kaiser Permanente in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly…
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Assault charges dropped against Texas woman abused as child
DENTON, Texas (AP) — Sexual assault charges have been dropped against a Texas woman who, as a child, had been rescued from a closet after suffering…
Continue Reading IMF foresees a slight drop in global growth from pandemic
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is slightly downgrading its outlook for the global…
Continue Reading Russia offers US to lift sanctions on diplomatic missions
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has offered the U.S. to roll back several rounds of sanctions that have hampered the…
Continue Reading EU vows to uphold Ukraine’s energy security at summit
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — European Union leaders have vowed to uphold Ukraine’s energy security and have signed…
Continue Reading Pamela down to tropical storm, but strengthening expected
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Pamela has weakened to a tropical storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast. But forecasters say it is expected to regain…
Continue Reading France’s $35B innovation plan includes nuclear reactor funds
By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a 5-year, 30 billion-euro ($35 billion) investment…
Continue Reading Israel’s new PM to meet with Putin in Sochi, Russia
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet for the first time with President Vladimir Putin in Russia later this…
Continue Reading North Korean soldier in blue generates buzz on social media
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean soldier clad in a super-tight blue outfit in a state…
Continue Reading Next on FDA’s agenda: Booster shots of Moderna, J&J vaccines
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their…
Continue Reading Big picture, big data: Swiss unveil VR software of universe
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Researchers at one of Switzerland’s leading universities are releasing open-source…
Continue Reading Pay up: UN climate summit leader says funding key to success
PARIS (AP) — The British official who will preside over an upcoming U.N. climate summit says he’s losing sleep over how to get long-promised…
Continue Reading Millennial Money: Save for holidays now, skip regret later
By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet The holidays are packed with temptation and obligations to spend. By having an action plan before the holiday…
Continue Reading Russia hits new record for COVID-19 deaths, resists lockdown
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — In what is becoming a common occurance, Russia has hit another record of daily coronavirus…
Continue Reading Israel PM urges UN to hold Iran to account for nuclear moves
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is calling on the United Nations Security Council…
Continue Reading German girl found alive after being lost in forest
BERLIN (AP) — An 8-year-old German girl who was lost for two days in a forested area along the German-Czech border has been found alive. Her…
Continue Reading ICC hearing opens for Central African Republic rebel
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A key pre-trial hearing has opened for an alleged Central African Republic rebel…
Continue Reading Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts Greek island of Crete
By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake has jolted the Greek island of Crete two weeks and a day after…
Continue Reading Report says UK’s slow virus lockdown cost 1000s of lives
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. parliamentary report says Britain’s Conservative government waited too long to impose a…
Continue Reading Lebanon judge issues arrest warrant for MP over port blast
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says the judge leading the investigation into last year’s…
Continue Reading Europe court rejects case seeking to blame Vatican for abuse
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A European court has ruled that the Vatican can’t be sued in a local court for sexual abuse…
Continue Reading 15 Nigerian women, children escape from Boko Haram captivity
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Six women and nine children abducted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremist rebels in the…
Continue Reading French train hits and kills sleeping migrant, 2 others
PARIS (AP) — A train has hit and killed three people and seriously injured another person in southwestern France. The mayor of a town near the…
Continue Reading Holocaust survivor-author Eddie Jaku dies in Sydney aged 101
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who last year published his best-selling memoir, “The…
Continue Reading Indian troops kill 5 suspected militants in Kashmir fighting
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Government forces have killed five suspected militants in two clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a day after rebels…
Continue Reading UK job vacancies hit record high amid worker shortages
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Job vacancies in the U.K. rose to a record high of nearly 1.2 million, a further sign that the British…
Continue Reading China pledges $230 million for biodiversity fund at UN meet
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is pledging $230 million to establish a fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries…
Continue Reading Climate activists call for investigation of Bolsonaro
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of climate lawyers is calling on the International Criminal Court to launch…
Continue Reading Storm leaves 11 dead in landslides, floods in Philippines
BAGUIO, Philippines (AP) — A tropical storm has set off landslides and flash floods as it barreled over the tip of the northern Philippines,…
Continue Reading Divorced UK and EU head for new Brexit fight over N Ireland
By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Britain are back to quarreling less than a year after…
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