Omicron to be dominant variant in EU by mid-January
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official says omicron is expected to be the dominant coronavirus…
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UK inflation hits decade high, pressuring Bank of England
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United Kingdom are rising at their highest rate in over a decade as a result of…
Continue ReadingGermany’s Scholz vows that ‘we will win’ fight against COVID
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is vowing that his new government will win the fight against the coronavirus…
Continue ReadingVaccine alliance chief: Omicron could trigger ‘Inequity 2.0’
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press CHAVANNES-DE-BOGIS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of vaccine alliance Gavi says in an interview he’s seen early…
Continue ReadingCOVID case in Blinken press curtails his Southeast Asia tour
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A positive COVID-19 test among U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s traveling party has…
Continue ReadingWatchdog says UN monitors needed in violence-hit Darfur
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A human rights watchdog has urged the United Nations to deploy monitors to Sudan’s western region of…
Continue ReadingHappy 100th, bloody mary: Paris marks cocktail’s birthday
By ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice…
Continue ReadingKim Yong Ju, younger brother of North Korea’s founder, dies
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Yong Ju, the younger brother of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, has died,…
Continue ReadingLack of jobs, crisis drive young Iraqi Kurds to migrate
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press RANYA, Iraq (AP) — The specter of unemployment haunts both students and teachers at universities in northern Iraq.…
Continue ReadingBlaze traps hundreds in Hong Kong tower, 13 hospitalized
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Firefighters in Hong Kong have rescued hundreds of people who fled to the rooftop of a skyscraper and…
Continue ReadingGerman police conduct raids over alleged COVID death threats
BERLIN (AP) — Police in eastern Germany have carried out raids in an investigation of alleged threats to kill a state governor and others by…
Continue ReadingFashion icon Chanel chooses Indian-born Leena Nair as CEO
By KRUTIKA PATHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The luxury fashion house Chanel has chosen Leena Nair, an industry…
Continue ReadingLibya’s election faces uncertainty amid towering challenges
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya is scheduled to hold elections in just over a week, on Dec. 24, a long-awaited vote that is the…
Continue ReadingHouse responds to GOP’s Boebert with Islamophobia bill
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren…
Continue ReadingGermany expels Russian diplomats over state-ordered killing
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany is expelling two Russian diplomats after a court concluded that Moscow was behind the…
Continue ReadingTexts show top Trump defenders’ private alarm on Jan. 6
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a mob overran the U.S. Capitol last January, some of Donald Trump’s highest-profile…
Continue ReadingMyanmar gems industry targeted in push for sanctions
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Myanmar as…
Continue ReadingHouse votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt in Jan. 6 probe
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to hold former White House chief of staff Mark…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: The security flaw that’s freaked out the internet
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Security pros say it’s one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they’ve ever seen. They say…
Continue ReadingNYC moves to stop new buildings from using natural gas
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers have voted to bar most new buildings from using natural gas.…
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