Month: January 2022

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers are to begin a three-day debate on a censure motion brought by the main opposition party against the…

BERLIN (AP) — Six men have gone on trial in Germany over a spectacular theft of 18th-century treasures from Dresden’s Green Vault Museum in 2019.…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb killed four policemen and wounded eight others as they were travelling in a restive…

BEIJING (AP) — A snowboarder from Slovenia has tested positive for the coronavirus after landing in Beijing for the Olympics. The country’s…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has updated its passports and from February onward, the plethora of Gothic and baroque buildings in its pages will make way…

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s economy grew by 6.4% last year after activity weakened as anti-coronavirus controls were tightened. Government data…

BERLIN (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a German who allegedly took her young daughter to watch a woman being stoned while in Islamic State-held…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest family holiday, despite a government plea…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan will recommend a former gold mine on Sado Island for a…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Parts of 10 eastern U.S. states are under blizzard warnings as a powerful storm that could dump as…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says a coronavirus surge fueled by the omicron variant remains “under control” despite a string…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is denouncing the fake news about COVID-19 and vaccines, blasting what he says is a…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials say an oil slick off the coast of Thailand has continued…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Divers, vets and the coast guard have mounted a rescue operation to help a whale calf that has become trapped in shallow…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s 84-year-old King Harald V will take a few days off because of cold symptoms, a day after meeting with Foreign…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have added a cat to their pet family. The…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ foreign minister says that the east Mediterranean island nation has “all the ingredients” to be a “credible…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program says more than a third of the people in Ethiopia’s…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union ombudsman has found that the bloc’s executive arm poorly handled a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Russia has…

BEIJING (AP) — Human rights activists have issued a call to action against the Beijing Olympics, imploring athletes and sponsors to speak out…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that the German economy shrank by 0.7% in last year’s fourth quarter amid a resurgence in coronavirus…