Yacht reportedly built for Bezos too big for Dutch bridge
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon…
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Judge says post-Brexit N Ireland border checks must continue
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on…
Continue ReadingEU, US to resume trading oysters, mussels after long dispute
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of…
Continue ReadingWatchdog says 100s of boys missing from Kurdish Syria prison
BEIRUT (AP) — An international human rights group says hundreds of boys are missing from a Syrian Kurdish prison that held members of the Islamic…
Continue ReadingNY boosts medical marijuana access as legal pot market looms
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s much-anticipated legal pot shops could be a year away from opening. But the state…
Continue ReadingSurvivors: 16 migrants missing from shipwreck near Canaries
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands say survivors rescued from a sinking rubber boat reported that 16 people were…
Continue ReadingAustria vaccine mandate to take effect, but few emulating it
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is…
Continue ReadingIn opening of Winter Olympics, chances at politicking abound
By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — For all the talk of a diplomatic boycott, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has managed to attract a…
Continue ReadingBrussels police find tarantulas, scorpions during drug raid
BRUSSELS (AP) — Prosecutors in Brussels say two people suspected of growing cannabis have been arrested this week in a Brussels apartment that…
Continue ReadingSudan pro-democracy group denounces UN mediation efforts
By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s leading pro-democracy group has lashed out at the United Nations, accusing it of failing…
Continue ReadingStoltenberg to become Norway’s next central bank governor
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s next central bank governor will be NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.…
Continue ReadingIceland rescuers search for missing plane with 3 tourists
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Rescue teams in Iceland are searching for a small plane that is thought to have crashed while carrying three foreign…
Continue ReadingDanish court find 3 Iranians guilty of spying for Saudis
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three members of an Iranian separatist group have been found guilty by a Danish court of gathering information for an…
Continue ReadingGoogle to work with Ford on Detroit research hub
By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Google is joining Ford Motor Co.’s effort to transform a…
Continue ReadingMyanmar piles on 11th corruption charge against Suu Kyi
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Myanmar have filed an 11th corruption charge against Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s…
Continue ReadingCash-strapped Sri Lanka appeals to expats to send money
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has celebrated its Independence Day with an appeal by the president…
Continue ReadingSpain to drop masks outdoors as omicron surge decelerates
MADRID (AP) — Spain will end a mandate to wear masks outdoors next week, reversing a late December order against an unprecedented surge of…
Continue ReadingEmboldened China opens Olympics, with lockdown and boycotts
By SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China invited the world back — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Olympics. Beijing…
Continue ReadingBiden joins pope, imam in calling for ‘human fraternity’
NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is joining Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam in calling for greater…
Continue ReadingFrench, German leaders to visit Russia, Ukraine amid tension
By ANGELA CHARLTON, GEIR MOULSON and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf…
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