Turkey’s Erdogan says social media a ‘threat to democracy’
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described social media as one of the main threats to democracy. Erdogan discussed the…
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Catholic women urge Vatican to sign Europe rights convention
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe…
Continue ReadingHamas says oxygen bottles exploded in Lebanon camp, not arms
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian Hamas group says that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were…
Continue ReadingBanksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy. It’s a…
Continue ReadingBulgaria: Centrist party leader asked to form government
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given a mandate to form a new government to the prime minister-designate of a centrist party that…
Continue ReadingStrahan flies to space with astronaut’s daughter: ‘Wow!’
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket. The Amazon founder’s space company…
Continue ReadingTaiwan records first omicron case in traveler from Africa
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health officials say Taiwan has recorded its first case of the omicron variant in a passenger who recently traveled to the…
Continue ReadingUK seeks unity at G7 meeting over Russia’s ‘malign behavior’
By JILL LAWLESS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven nations were meeting in Liverpool…
Continue ReadingCuban family finds welcome, refugee status in distant Serbia
By JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba…
Continue ReadingPakistani gunmen attack police guarding polio team, 1 killed
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting…
Continue ReadingIndian farmers end yearlong protests and return home
By RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are clearing protest sites along the capital’s fringes and…
Continue ReadingSouth African doctors see signs omicron is milder than delta
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health experts still don’t know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but…
Continue ReadingDole honored in Kansas as tough but compassionate statesman
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fellow Kansans have celebrated Bob Dole as a tough but compassionate patriot shaped by…
Continue ReadingAnxiety high in Guatemala over victims of Mexico truck crash
By SONIA PEREZ D. and MANUEL DE LA CRUZ Associated Press CHEPOL, Guatemala (AP) — Anxiety is high in Guatemala amid uncertainty about loved ones…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Nintendo game console pioneer Uemura dies at 78
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Masayuki Uemura, a Japanese home computer game pioneer whose Nintendo consoles sold millions of…
Continue ReadingCalifornia man who sold $1M of forged art gets 3-year term
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man who sold $1.1 million in forged art has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Prosecutors say…
Continue ReadingCorrection: Midwest Tornadoes story
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — In a story published December 11, 2021, about deadly tornadoes hitting several states, The Associated Press erroneously…
Continue ReadingStay French, or not? New Caledonia holds independence vote
By CHARLOTTE ANTOINE-PERRON Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — Voters in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia are set to…
Continue ReadingSequoia National Park opens Giant Forest that survived fire
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the…
Continue Reading‘Panther’ the cat rescued after days-long utility pole perch
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — For at least two days, residents of a Denver suburb worried a black cat named Panther who somehow got himself stranded atop a…
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