West Ham player Kurt Zouma condemned for kicking cat
LONDON (AP) — West Ham defender Kurt Zouma has been condemned by an animal welfare charity for kicking and slapping a cat in a video posted on…
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With proposed legislation, Uganda tries to mandate vaccines
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities are seeking to legally mandate vaccines in draft legislation aimed…
Continue ReadingGermany argues over vaccine mandate for health workers
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has decried calls from the main opposition party to suspend the…
Continue ReadingBEIJING SNAPSHOT: Olympic press can grab high-tech naps
By CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep…
Continue ReadingEU’s chip production plan aims to ease dependency on Asia
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is announcing a $48 billion plan to become a major semiconductor producer. With…
Continue ReadingIggy Pop, Ensemble Intercontemporain win Polar Music Prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — American rocker Iggy Pop, known as “the godfather of punk”, and Ensemble Intercontemporain, a contemporary music orchestra…
Continue ReadingWhite House: File your taxes to get full child tax credit
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The Biden administration is kicking off an outreach campaign to get millions of families to file their taxes so they…
Continue ReadingPoland puts off mandatory jabs for teachers, police, army
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Health Ministry says that the March 1 deadline of full vaccination for teachers and so-called uniformed…
Continue ReadingSpanish retiree fights digital bank divide, seeks human help
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish retiree is campaigning to keep in-person customer services at bank branches. On Tuesday he was handing government officials…
Continue ReadingJournalist who spoke to Peng Shuai says doubts remain
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A French journalist says his exclusive interview with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai this week…
Continue ReadingBP profits surge as high gas prices hit household finances
LONDON (AP) — BP PLC has reported its biggest full-year profit for eight years. Its coffers have been boosted by soaring oil and gas prices that…
Continue ReadingOxfam says battle over Yemeni city displaced 100,000 people
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international charity group says a yearlong battle over the strategic Yemeni city of Marib has…
Continue Reading31M Americans to bet on Super Bowl, gambling group estimates
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The gambling industry’s national trade group estimates a record 31.5 million Americans…
Continue ReadingPraise for Eileen Gu breaks Chinese social media
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two American-born athletes competing for China. Two radically different reactions from…
Continue ReadingCochran-Siegle skis to US Olympic medal 50 years after Mom
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s silver in the super-G at the Beijing Games has given the United…
Continue ReadingHong Kong limits private gatherings to fight COVID-19
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader has announced the city’s toughest social-distancing restrictions yet, including unprecedented limits on…
Continue ReadingMauritius presses claim versus UK for Indian Ocean islands
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A delegation from Mauritius is set to sail Tuesday to the Chagos Islands to press the country’s…
Continue ReadingMacron: Putin told him Russia won’t escalate Ukraine crisis
By SYLVIE CORBET and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Continue ReadingChina locks down southern city as omicron variant surges
BEIJING (AP) — China has ordered inhabitants of the southern city of Baise to stay home and suspended transportation links amid a surge in COVID-19…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Nissan swings back to profit despite chips crunch
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan has swung back into the black for the quarter through December, despite…
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