Month: October 2021

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The military leader of Guinea has announced that senior international civil servant…

By DAVID KEYTON, JILL LAWLESS and CARA ANNA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described social media as a “coward’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has ruled that the military unlawfully discriminated against the…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has signed a contract with a United Arab Emirates-based renewable energy developer to build five solar power plants in the…

BERLIN (AP) — A 100-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany, accused of being an accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign ministry says that Germany and Denmark have brought home 11 women and 37 children from a camp in northeastern…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Every week or so, tens of thousands of New Zealanders play a lottery in their…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian human rights lawyer Nikola Kovacevic is this year’s winner of a prestigious…

By SAMYA KULLAB, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and FELIPE DANA Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers have their…

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Twelve people have died in northern India after the bus they were on swerved off the road and hit a truck. Police say the bus…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The criminal case against a man accused of killing four people at a Tennessee Waffle House in 2018 is returning to court. A…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities say they have made their largest smuggling bust, seizing goods including endangered species worth an…

By PHILIP MARCELO and DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials and experts say this summer’s storms were the latest…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is forming a task force to study the issue of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women…

By MATTHEW BROWN, BRIAN MELLEY, and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Video of the ruptured underwater pipeline that…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Taylor hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Los Angeles…

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine vice president and opposition leader Leni Robredo has…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new study suggests the number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — The money flowing to cities and states from the American Rescue Plan is so substantial and…

By EMMA H. TOBIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say it’s OK to get your COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine at the same time. The…

By KEVIN FREKING, ALAN FRAM and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has dodged a U.S. debt disaster by approving…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Facebook product manager who has accused the social network giant of threatening…

By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortions have resumed in at least six Texas clinics after a federal judge…