Nepal Supreme Court removes deputy PM over citizenship
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s Supreme Court has removed the country’s deputy prime minister from office and from his parliamentary seat for…
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Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. The dirty snowball last…
Continue ReadingFDA moves to ease rules for blood donations from gay men
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. plans to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood. The Food and Drug…
Continue ReadingPolice: Counterterror unit holds Spain church attack suspect
By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national police agency says a counterterrorism intelligence…
Continue ReadingSmokey Robinson, ‘King of Motown,’ to release new solo album
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been nearly a decade since Smokey Robinson’s last album, but new music from the King of Motown is on the horizon.…
Continue ReadingUS inflation and consumer spending cooled in December
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and…
Continue ReadingIndia to get 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as…
Continue ReadingNorway’s last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine’s end
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a…
Continue ReadingUkrainian presidency: 10 killed in latest Russian shelling
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A new barrage of Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others…
Continue ReadingPandemic, culture wars revive ‘school choice’ policy push
By SAM METZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators…
Continue ReadingCalifornia prison inmates to get some Medicaid care
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or…
Continue ReadingSeveral questioned in Croatia over oligarch’s missing yacht
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police on Friday brought in for questioning several people over the disappearance last October of a luxury yacht…
Continue ReadingJournalists convicted of revealing Finland defense secrets
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two investigative journalists for a major daily newspaper in Finland have been convicted of revealing national defense…
Continue ReadingTurkey summons Danish envoy over Quran-burning protest
By JAN M. OLSEN and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Turkey has summoned the Danish ambassador and accused Denmark of…
Continue ReadingProtests against Quran burning held across the Middle East
BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters in several Middle Eastern countries have gathered to denounce the recent desecration of Islam’s holy book by…
Continue ReadingUK student nurse charged with taking bomb to maternity ward
LONDON (AP) — A student nurse has appeared in a British court charged with planning to attack an air force base and taking a home-made bomb to a…
Continue ReadingUK Treasury chief: Tax cuts must wait for inflation to fall
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief says taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes. Jeremy Hunt…
Continue Reading7 hurt, 2 missing in Polish vicarage explosion, collapse
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Firefighters in southern Poland say that seven people have been injured and two are missing after an explosion demolished…
Continue ReadingRussian coronavirus-denying ex-monk sentenced to 7 years
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A coronavirus-denying former Russian Orthodox monk has been given a seven-year sentence on…
Continue ReadingHong Kong protests Biden extension of deportation protection
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has protested President Joe Biden’s two-year extension of a program that protects residents of the semi-autonomous…
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