Cap on drug price hikes for privately insured sparks battle
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription…
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Tens of thousands protest Belgium’s tighter COVID-19 rules
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Brussels to protest reinforced COVID-19…
Continue Reading‘I lost everything’: Guadeloupe riots overtake COVID protest
BY ELODIE SOUPAMA AND SYLVIE CORBET LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France is sending police special forces to its overseas Caribbean territory of…
Continue ReadingPope to young people: We need you to protect environment
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment. Francis urged them to “be…
Continue ReadingUK to probe racial bias in medical devices after COVID toll
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to…
Continue ReadingOfficial: Israel to sign solar power deal with Jordan in UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is set to sign a declaration of intent with neighboring Jordan on building a major solar power plant in…
Continue ReadingAustria begins national lockdown to fight surging infections
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austria has gone into a nationwide lockdown to combat skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The…
Continue ReadingDutch police arrest more than 30 amid ongoing unrest
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in…
Continue ReadingOfficial: Gunmen shoot dead 3 coal miners in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen have shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. No one immediately claimed…
Continue ReadingUS Rhodes scholars for 2022 include record number of women
By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America The class of U.S. Rhodes scholars for 2022 includes the largest number of women ever selected for…
Continue ReadingCroatia police say German reporter helped migrants cross
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say that a German reporter was briefly detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia…
Continue ReadingSaudi critic’s fiancee urges Justin Bieber to cancel F1 show
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices…
Continue ReadingYemen official warns dam will break if rebels take Marib
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile has warned that a rebel…
Continue ReadingIndonesia hosts World Superbike finale on brand-new circuit
By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MANDALIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Toprak Razgatlioglu, a Yamaha rider, became the first-ever…
Continue ReadingHamas gunman kills 1 before Israeli police shoot him dead
By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas militant has opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one Israeli and wounding…
Continue ReadingExit polls: Bulgarian president wins apparent reelection
By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent Rumen Radev is the apparent winner in the…
Continue ReadingUkraine’s doctors pushed to the limit by COVID-19 wave
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus…
Continue ReadingSudan military leaders reinstate deposed prime minister
By SAMY MAGDY and NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will…
Continue ReadingReports: Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Wada dies
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s…
Continue ReadingRelatives of virus dead question Japan’s stay-at-home policy
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Two women whose relatives died from the coronavirus at home are questioning the Japanese…
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