Lebanon resumes contacts with IMF over bailout program
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Finance Ministry says it has resumed “interactions” with the International Monetary Fund about pulling the small…
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Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont freed temporarily in Sardinia
By GLORIA CALVI, COLLEEN BARRY and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press SASSARI, Sardinia (AP) — Catalonia’s former separatist leader has walked out of…
Continue ReadingPope Francis plans to attend youth jamboree in Portugal
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Pope Francis plans to attend a youth jamboree in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2023. Pontiffs traditionally attend World Youth Day,…
Continue ReadingRussia test-fires new hypersonic missile from submarine
MOSCOW (AP) — A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from a nuclear submarine for the first time. The Russian…
Continue ReadingMuslims recall questionable detentions that followed 9/11
By GARY FIELDS and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary…
Continue ReadingOfficials in Thailand see signs of flood threat easing
By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say widespread flooding is easing, allowing the capital…
Continue ReadingMuslims recall questionable detentions that followed 9/11
By GARY FIELDS and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years since the Sept. 11 attacks brings a different kind of anniversary…
Continue ReadingUK military begins fuel delivery amid driver shortage
LONDON (AP) — British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies for more…
Continue ReadingMalaysia warns Myanmar to cooperate with envoy or no summit
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister has warned that Myanmar may be excluded from a summit of Southeast Asian leaders this…
Continue ReadingGreece: Truck on parliament sidewalk checked for explosives
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A 58-year-old Greek man has been arrested after he drove a pickup truck onto a sidewalk in front of the the country’s…
Continue Reading‘Pandora Papers’ bring renewed calls for tax haven scrutiny
By PAUL WISEMAN and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls are growing for an end to the financial secrecy and shell companies…
Continue ReadingJordanian king’s properties undercut father figure image
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Newly leaked documents showing that Jordan’s King Abdullah II quietly amassed luxury real…
Continue ReadingLava from Spanish volcano surges after crater collapse
MADRID (AP) — Authorities on the Spanish island of La Palma say they are tightening their surveillance of an erupting volcano after part of the…
Continue ReadingUK blames ‘heavy-handed’ EU for Brexit deal problems
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has threatened to trigger a contentious break clause in the…
Continue ReadingSwedish artist threatened for Muhammad sketch dies in crash
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police say Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a…
Continue ReadingUN: Libya’s roundup tops 5,000 migrants as concerns grow
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — A United Nations tally obtained by the Associated Press on Monday shows that the number of…
Continue ReadingIndian town on edge after 9 die during farm protest
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian authorities have suspended internet services and barred political leaders from…
Continue ReadingEx-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies
By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a…
Continue Reading2 win medicine Nobel for showing how we react to heat, touch
By DAVID KEYTON and MARIA CHENG Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries into…
Continue ReadingTaliban-style security welcomed by some, feared by others
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans lining up recently to make complaints at a Taliban-run police station found…
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