Vatican court absolves former altar boy in sex abuse trial
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal has absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary.…
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Emirati court sentences 5 foreigners to death for murder
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Emirati court has sentenced five people to death who had been convicted in the first-degree murder and…
Continue ReadingTensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify
By HUIZHONG WU and DAVID RISING Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week,…
Continue ReadingHow to invest in cryptocurrency without buying any
By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Investors can gain access to the booming cryptocurrency market without exposing their portfolios to high levels of…
Continue ReadingVatican judges in fraud trial agree defense rights violated
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal has agreed that 10 defendants in a fraud trial were deprived of their…
Continue ReadingTaliban arrest 4 Islamic State militants north of Kabul
By RAHIM FAEIZ and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban say they have arrested four Islamic State militants north of…
Continue ReadingSaudi Aramco closes near $2T valuation as oil prices rally
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco closed just shy of a $2 trillion valuation…
Continue ReadingFacebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance
LONDON (AP) — Facebook blamed a error during routine maintenance for causing a massive global outage that took down its services for hours. In an…
Continue ReadingEU recommends relief funds for consumers hit by energy costs
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is urging member countries to provide relief funds to consumers and small…
Continue ReadingTroubled student loan forgiveness program gets an overhaul
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been…
Continue ReadingCoronavirus deaths in Russia surpass 900 a day for 1st time
By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll has surpassed 900 for the first time in the pandemic. The…
Continue ReadingNobel in chemistry honors ‘greener’ way to build molecules
By DAVID KEYTON, FRANK JORDANS and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa’s Desmond Tutu turns 90 amid new racist slur
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent…
Continue ReadingAssailants fatally shoot 3 men in disputed Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have shot and killed three men in Indian-controlled Kashmir in separate attacks blamed by police on militants…
Continue ReadingCourt lifts secrecy in alleged Australian espionage trial
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A court has agreed to lift a shroud of secrecy from the trial of a spy’s lawyer that…
Continue ReadingRed Crescent says bodies of 17 people washed ashore in Libya
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — The Libyan Red Crescent says at least 17 bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants, have…
Continue ReadingPope expresses ‘shame’ at scale of clergy abuse in France
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church for the scale of child sexual abuse within the…
Continue ReadingGerman parties look to Social Democrats to lead next govt
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The two parties that emerged as likely kingmakers from Germany’s election last month say they will…
Continue ReadingGerman police raid ring suspected of laundering $162 million
BERLIN (AP) — German police have carried out large-scale raids in 25 cities in connection with a suspected money-laundering network alleged to have…
Continue ReadingUS woman in Bali ‘suitcase murder’ to be released Oct. 29
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and…
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