UN boosts food aid budget to feed a third of Lebanon
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program has increased its food aid to cash-strapped Lebanon,…
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Germany offers Poland Patriot missiles to defend airspace
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says the country has offered Eurofighters and Patriot defense systems to Poland to help it…
Continue ReadingLiz Weston: How to take a career break
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Extended time off from work doesn’t have to wait until retirement. Your career break may be aspirational, or it may be…
Continue ReadingUkraine to civilians: Leave liberated areas before winter
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities have begun evacuating civilians from recently liberated sections of…
Continue ReadingJapan nuclear watchdog considering extending reactor life
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s nuclear watchdog says regulators are considering revising a safety evaluation…
Continue ReadingPakistani court orders release of man who attacked Musharraf
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a top court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a man on completion of his jail term in connection with…
Continue ReadingEU fails to defuse tense situation between Serbia and Kosovo
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat has held eight hours of unsuccessful talks with the leaders of Serbia and…
Continue ReadingPalestinians: Israeli forces kill man in West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says that Israeli forces shot and killed a young man near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.…
Continue ReadingKazakh president wins new term against weak opposition
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won a new seven-year term in a snap election in which the second biggest…
Continue Reading100M euros pledged to Moldova, hit hard by war in Ukraine
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said more than 100 million euros was raised…
Continue ReadingFIFA threat makes World Cup teams nix ‘One Love’ armbands
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — FIFA’s threat of on-field punishment for players pushed World Cup teams to back down…
Continue ReadingElton John rockets toward retirement at Dodger Stadium
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forty seven years after he took the stage at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in a…
Continue ReadingKurdish militants fire at Turkish border town, 2 killed
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say suspected Kurdish militants in Syria have fired rockets into a border…
Continue ReadingUN expert questions sincerity of Myanmar’s prisoner release
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an…
Continue ReadingIsraeli court rules former PM Olmert defamed Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has ruled that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert defamed his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and ordered…
Continue ReadingIndonesian quake kills at least 162 and injures hundreds
By FIRMAN TAUFIQ and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds…
Continue ReadingCold and dark: Kyiv readies for ‘worst winter of our lives’
By YURAS KARMANAU and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the power is out, as it so often is, the high-rise apartment…
Continue Reading‘Master of Silly Business’ among 5 dead in Colorado shooting
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Daniel Aston would let loose on a typical night at Club Q in…
Continue ReadingChina’s Guangzhou locks down millions in ‘zero-COVID’ fight
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has locked down its largest district as it tries…
Continue ReadingAsian stocks mixed after Wall St slide, China virus fears
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street sank and Chinese anti-virus controls…
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