A week on, brutal Cyclone Freddy still taxes southern Africa
By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press Over a week after Cyclone Freddy’s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and…
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French government survives no-confidence votes over pensions
By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parliament has adopted a divisive pension bill raising the retirement age in…
Continue ReadingActivists demand EU halts ‘green’ funds for Spain ski resort
By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish environmental groups have called on the European Union to open an inquiry into…
Continue ReadingArrests as Kenya opposition leads anti-government protests
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least three Kenyan legislators and several protesters have been arrested and then…
Continue ReadingPutin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on…
Continue ReadingMan arrested after windows smashed at Indian mission in UK
LONDON (AP) — British police say windows at India’s High Commission in London were smashed and two security guards were slightly injured during a…
Continue ReadingReport: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia…
Continue ReadingAvalanche: 2nd body found of Swedish skiers near Mont Blanc
ROME (AP) — Rescue crews have recovered a second body during a search for two Swedish skiers who were caught in an avalanche near Mont Blanc on…
Continue ReadingBiden’s appeals court nominee faces rare Democratic scrutiny
By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Joe Biden’s nominees to a federal appeals court has generated rare concern…
Continue ReadingDozens in Indonesia protest Israel’s presence at U-20 Cup
By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims have marched in Indonesia’s capital to protests…
Continue ReadingReport: 3 people dead, suspect detained in Georgia shooting
CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — Three people are dead in what authorities say was a shooting in an Atlanta-area home early Monday. WSB-TV reports the Rockdale…
Continue ReadingThailand dissolves Parliament ahead of May elections
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament has been dissolved to set the stage for a May general election that poses an…
Continue ReadingAustralia won’t promise to side with US in Taiwan conflict
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says his country made no promises to the…
Continue ReadingTop Afghan Taliban leader issues decree against nepotism
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The supreme leader of the Taliban has issued a decree against nepotism, barring officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban…
Continue ReadingEU’s top diplomat hails deal on artillery shells for Ukraine
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says the 27-nation bloc and Norway have endorsed a…
Continue ReadingUkraine: Volunteer specialist doctors run clinics near front
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KHRESTYSHCHE, Ukraine (AP) — A team of volunteer specialist doctors has set up a mobile clinic in a cramped…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand’s foreign minister to visit counterpart in China
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Foreign Minister will visit her counterpart in Beijing this week in…
Continue ReadingMillions of rotting fish to be removed from Outback river
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Australia say they’re arranging for the removal of millions of rotting fish from an Outback river.…
Continue ReadingWorld on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of…
Continue ReadingTheir world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in…
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