West Africa to impose bans, freeze assets of Guinea junta
By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — West African leaders have decided to impose travel bans and freeze financial assets of…
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German rail operator, union agree on pay deal to end strike
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest rail operator and a labor union representing train drivers say they have agreed on a pay raise to end a series of…
Continue ReadingGerman rail operator, union agree on pay deal to end strike
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest rail operator and a labor union representing train drivers say they have agreed on a pay raise to end a series of…
Continue ReadingRights groups say EU fails Afghans fleeing Taliban
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Human rights and refugee groups are appealing to the European Union to step up its help for people…
Continue ReadingGerman police detain 4 on Yom Kippur after synagogue threat
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old boy and three other people have been detained in connection with…
Continue ReadingAlex Murdaugh turns himself in on charges connected to insurance fraud scheme
By Dakin Andone, Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN Alex Murdaugh, a South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were killed in June, was arrested…
Continue ReadingFrance calls killing of Islamic State leader big victory
By ANGELA CHARLTON and BABA AHMED Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials say the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara died of…
Continue Reading3 crew leave China’s space station for Earth after 90 days
By SAM MCNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China says three astronauts who lived on its space station for 90 days have left in preparation for…
Continue ReadingAt London’s Old Vic, ‘Camp Siegfried’ probes American Nazis
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s Old Vic Theatre is reopening at full capacity for the first time since the pandemic…
Continue ReadingWrongly convicted man dies of Covid-19, nine years after he was exonerated
WPTV, LISA WILSON, CNN By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN After spending the last nine years taking back his life after being exonerated of murder and…
Continue ReadingPhilippines’ Duterte will ‘die first’ before facing ICC
By JOEAL CALUPITAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s top legal adviser has…
Continue ReadingFlorida vaccine advocate loses 6 unvaccinated family members to Covid-19 within 3 weeks
By Amy Simonson, CNN After months of knocking on doors in the neighborhoods of Palm Beach County, Florida, trying to convince members of the…
Continue ReadingHezbollah brings Iran fuel to Lebanon despite US sanctions
By FADI TAWIL and BILAL HUSSEIN Associated Press AL-AIN, Lebanon (AP) — A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel has arrived from Syria to…
Continue ReadingISIS chief in Sahara killed by French forces, Macron says
By Joseph Ataman and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN French forces have killed Adnan Abou Walid al Sahraoui, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara…
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Bend councilors move forward on permanent fireworks ban, housing code changes
Bend city councilors were meeting Wednesday evening to take public comment on proposed rules to allow multi-family housing in all neighborhoods, as a…
Continue ReadingUN chief urges ‘rapid’ emission cuts to curb climate change
By FRANK JORDANS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations is calling for “immediate, rapid and…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s Imran Khan says world should give Taliban ‘time’ on human rights but fears ‘chaos’ without aid
CNN By Becky Anderson, Zeena Saifi and Helen Regan, CNN Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said the best way forward for peace and stability…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka conservationists fight elephant smuggling in court
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Environmentalists in Sri Lanka are challenging a court order that would allow…
Continue ReadingEarthquake leaves three dead and 60 injured in China’s Sichuan
By Jessie Yeung, CNN An earthquake in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan left at least three people dead and 60 injured on Thursday,…
Continue ReadingIndonesian court rules president negligent over pollution
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has ruled that President Joko Widodo and six top officials have…
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