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By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s parliament has elected the chief of a major national museum as the Baltic…
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s parliament has elected the chief of a major national museum as the Baltic…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Hugely popular online games and celebrity culture are the latest targets in the…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry is asking for a 2.6% increase over this year’s record budget.…
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY JESPERSEN of NerdWallet One of the biggest sale weekends of the year is fast approaching. Labor Day weekend is traditionally filled with…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union justice and home affairs ministers are meeting to discuss the…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer has been placed on administrative duty as the city’s police oversight agency investigates his…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has asked the president to declare a state of emergency along the…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Google has announced that it is investing $1.2 billion by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital say they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Consumers are seeing higher prices in Europe. Official figures released Tuesday show…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and ROGELIO V. SOLIS Associated Press LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXIA FERNANDEZ CAMPBELL The Center for Public Integrity A Center for Public Integrity investigation finds that the U.S. Postal Service regularly…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV says that a bomb-laden drone has targeted an airport in…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government replaced top officials in charge of public security in the wake of massive wildfires, but…
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh anti-terrorism tribunal has sentenced six Islamist militants to death in the…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official statistics show that the number of unemployed people in Germany declined slightly in August, unusually for the summer month,…
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police say 11 militants of the Islamic State group were killed in a raid in restive…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has reopened but then recessed its proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish president the United Arab Emirates’ de-facto leader have spoken by telephone, in a sign of easing tensions between…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Venice’s central place in the history of battling pandemics provides the backdrop to this…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have gained as investors weighed the economic impact of the spread of the…
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America For Shelly Savoie, time is running out at the Motel 6 in Bossier City, Louisiana. So are…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN MCGILL, CHEVEL JOHNSON and MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now…
Continue ReadingBy CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand have begun a no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister…
Continue ReadingBy TOM VERDIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe can be measured in more than acres burned. While it has…
Continue ReadingBy JAY REEVES and STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press CROWN POINT, La. (AP) — New Orleans largely escaped catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Ida,…
Continue ReadingBy MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Resigning from office probably didn’t end former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal problems,…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are bracing for strong winds a day after…
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium…
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium…
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