Philippine leader runs for Senate after vow to retire
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has filed his candidacy for a Senate seat in next…
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UK extends COVID vaccine booster program amid ‘storm clouds’
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of a “blizzard” of new coronavirus infections…
Continue ReadingUS journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed
By GRANT PECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster is on his way home from military-ruled Myanmar.…
Continue ReadingRoadside bomb in Afghanistan’s capital wounds two people
By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has exploded on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounding…
Continue ReadingChildren fall from building in Sweden, 1 dies; 2 adults held
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great…
Continue ReadingAustria locks down the unvaccinated amid a surge of COVID-19
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide…
Continue ReadingUK says Liverpool taxi blast was a bomb, raises threat level
By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has increased the terror level to severe, meaning an attack is…
Continue ReadingMacron, Putin discuss deescalating Belarus border tensions
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin have talked on the phone about…
Continue ReadingCritics: Greece criminalizes migration, prosecutes helpers
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek…
Continue ReadingA groom, a lawyer, an ambulance driver among Ethiopia’s dead
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A groom at his wedding, a construction worker and father of four, an ambulance driver: All…
Continue ReadingAirbus strikes 2nd major aircraft deal of Dubai Air Show
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airbus has clinched a major deal valued into the billions of dollars to sell…
Continue Reading‘You can’t even cry loudly’: Counting Ethiopia’s war dead
By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in the…
Continue ReadingIndia opens to vaccinated foreign tourists after 18 months
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular…
Continue Reading‘You can’t even cry loudly’: Counting Ethiopia’s war dead
By CARA ANNA, DAVID KEYTON and NAT CASTANEDA Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Ethiopia’s war is now one year old. Its dead are in…
Continue ReadingAfghans in Indonesia protest slow UN resettlement process
By EDNA TARIGAN and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers living in Indonesia…
Continue ReadingNew outbreak prompts China to lock down university campus
BEIJING (AP) — China has confined nearly 1,500 university students to their dormitories and hotels following an outbreak of COVID-19 in the…
Continue ReadingJeffrey Epstein faces trial by proxy: Ghislaine Maxwell
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on…
Continue ReadingJapan-US launch talks to resolve dispute over tariffs
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to launch talks aimed at settling a dispute over American…
Continue ReadingUN experts review plans for release of Fukushima plant water
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release…
Continue ReadingCambodia reopens 2 weeks early, buoyed by high vaccine rates
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers two weeks earlier…
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