Numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers increase in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — More than 244,000 people have applied for asylum in Germany last year and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees who have come to the…
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Official: Explosion near Foreign Ministry in Kabul kills 5
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police spokesman in Kabul says an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital has killed five civilians…
Continue ReadingEuropean legal team arriving in Lebanon in corruption probe
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s justice minister says a European judicial delegation from France, Germany, and…
Continue ReadingDivisive influencer Tate loses appeal against asset seizures
By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has rejected an…
Continue ReadingUK ambulance workers walk out, joining wave of strike action
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Around 25,000 U.K. ambulance workers went on strike Wednesday, walking out for the second time since…
Continue ReadingFire kills man; 1 of 4 kids listed as critical near death
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man has died of injuries suffered in an Indianopolis apartment fire this week that left four children ages 15 months, 3, 12…
Continue ReadingFather of peace deal that ended Lebanon’s civil war dies
BEIRUT (AP) — Hussein Husseini, a former Lebanese parliament speaker and the father of the 1989 Taif Agreement that ended the country’s 15-year…
Continue ReadingReport: Arms supplied by UK, US killed civilians in Yemen
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A new report has found that weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a…
Continue ReadingWhite House: Jill Biden has two cancerous lesions removed
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeons removed a cancerous lesion above first lady Jill Biden ‘s right eye and one…
Continue ReadingComputer breakdown sows chaos across US air travel system
By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed after a…
Continue ReadingEdmunds highlights top car-tech trends from CES 2023
By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds CES in Las Vegas gives us a glimpse of where automakers believe vehicles are headed in the future. Edmunds attended this…
Continue ReadingUK’s Princess Anne visits British peacekeepers on Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Britain’s Princess Anne has cast aside the controversy surrounding her nephew Prince Harry and carried on a visit to…
Continue ReadingCyprus to require COVID-19 tests for all arrivals from China
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative…
Continue ReadingChina preparing to expand airline service to United States
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state TV says Beijing is preparing to allow airlines to fly more routes between China and the United States following the…
Continue ReadingReport: Oil price cap takes small slice of Russia’s revenue
By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Russia’s still making plenty of money from oil sales…
Continue ReadingKorean firm plans $2.5B in new solar panel plants in Georgia
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A South Korean solar panel maker said Wednesday that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build…
Continue ReadingSwedish government wants to build more nuke power plants
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s center-right coalition government says it will present legislation which will enable the construction of new nuclear…
Continue ReadingIndonesian president acknowledges past human rights abuses
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged that serious human rights violations…
Continue ReadingGreece’s former king to be buried as a private citizen
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government says the country’s former and last king will be buried as…
Continue ReadingTurkish Medical Association chief convicted of terror charge
By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A court in Istanbul has convicted the president of the Turkish Medical…
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