US-French spat seems to simmer down after Biden-Macron call
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The most significant rift in decades between the United States and France seems on the mend after…
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Louisiana’s struggling seafood industry teetering after Ida
By JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wrecked boats, docks and processing equipment left by Hurricane Ida has some wondering what…
Continue ReadingAlbania’s ex-top prosecutor jailed of corruption
By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has sentenced the country’s former chief prosecutor to two…
Continue ReadingNurse who found bodies of businessman, wife sues for damages
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A home health nurse who discovered the bodies of a prominent Minnesota businessman and his wife in a murder-suicide case is…
Continue ReadingAnger, confusion spread over UK’s new COVID travel rules
By CARA ANNA, DANICA KIRKA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries…
Continue ReadingTravel in Canada is a prize for the vaccinated and vigilant
By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press KAMOURASKA, Quebec (AP) — At the Canadian border one night this month, a man from Atlanta pulled up in his car,…
Continue ReadingLebanese ex-minister asks that port blast judge be replaced
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says a former government minister has asked the country’s top…
Continue ReadingPolice: 1 dead in drive by shooting at school bus stop
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a drive-by shooting at a school bus stop in Kentucky left a 16-year-old student dead and another hospitalized.…
Continue ReadingEuropean Central Bank climate report: Early action is better
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has carried out its first climate change stress test. The…
Continue ReadingUN health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality
By JAMEY KEATEN and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the…
Continue ReadingUK’s Johnson concedes US trade deal not in the offing
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conceded that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. is not…
Continue ReadingGerman president asks country to confront its colonial past
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has called on the country to face its cruel colonial past as he opened a…
Continue ReadingRihanna takes time with album while unveiling lingerie line
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna might be extremely consumed with rolling out her popular lingerie line,…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka probes prison minister for alleged prisoner threat
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police are investigating an incident in which the government prisons…
Continue ReadingUK climate activists face prison for blocking highways
LONDON (AP) — Environmental activists who have repeatedly blocked Britain’s busiest highway face possible imprisonment after a judge granted an…
Continue ReadingNetflix buys Wonka author Dahl’s catalog
LONDON (AP) — Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and…
Continue ReadingStudy: 2.7 million European Union workers can’t afford heat
BRUSSELS (AP) — As winter looms, the European Trade Union Confederation says three million European workers can’t afford heating their houses…
Continue ReadingN Ireland police arrest 2 more men over murder of journalist
LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have arrested two more men over the murder of Lyra McKee, a journalist shot dead while covering a riot in…
Continue ReadingWoman arrested after witnesses say she threw puppy into sea
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Police in a Georgia Island town say they’ve arrested a woman who witnesses say threw an injured puppy into the…
Continue ReadingCroatian police identify woman found with memory loss
By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have established the identity of a woman who was found in a remote…
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