China’s 1st Horn of Africa envoy offers to mediate in region
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa has offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to…
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Haggis held at hotel ahead of Italian hearing in sex case
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was being held in a hotel room in southern Italy on Monday pending…
Continue Reading Israel says regional alliance has thwarted Iranian attacks
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says that Israel is helping build a U.S.-led regional air-defense…
Continue Reading Festival founded by Dua Lipa’s father returns to Kosovo
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital joined forces on Monday to bring back home an international…
Continue Reading German officials seize apartments of Russian lawmaker, wife
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have seized three apartments and a bank account owned by a Russian lawmaker and his wife under European…
Continue Reading Boris Johnson has sinus operation at London hospital
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic. Johnson spokesman Max Blain said…
Continue Reading Pakistani prime minister appears in court in corruption case
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appeared in court in connection with an old corruption case.…
Continue Reading Lawyers call on intl court to investigate Uyghur treatment
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers have renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China’s treatment of…
Continue Reading Liz Weston: Is medical debt vanishing from credit reports?
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The three credit bureaus have promised to remove nearly 70% of medical debts from consumer credit reports within the next…
Continue Reading College basketball player killed in NYC shooting; 8 wounded
NEW YORK (AP) — A college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in…
Continue Reading Lebanon latest in Mideast to detect 1st case of monkeypox
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that authorities have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from…
Continue Reading France awakens to an emboldened Le Pen after far-right gains
By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has awakened to an ecstatic Marine Le Pen after her party’s far-right…
Continue Reading ‘It’s just hell there’: Russia still pounds eastern Ukraine
By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military machine is persevering in its ferocious effort to…
Continue Reading UN says Libya’s rivals fail to reach deal in election talks
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says rival Libyan factions failed to reach an agreement on constitutional amendments…
Continue Reading Belgium returns Congo independence hero’s tooth to family
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese…
Continue Reading Syrian military: Attack on bus kills 13, most of them troops
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say an attack on a civilian bus in the country’s north has killed 13 people, including 11 soldiers,…
Continue Reading For K-pop supergroup BTS, questions remain about its future
By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The surprise announcement by BTS last week that they were taking a break to focus on…
Continue Reading UK set for national railway strike as last-ditch talks fail
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in decades after last-minute talks between a union and…
Continue Reading China says it successfully intercepted a missile in flight
BEIJING (AP) — China says it has successfully intercepted a missile in flight, in a test of an anti-ballistic missile system that could improve its…
Continue Reading Philippine government attorney fatally shot in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philippine officials are mourning a government attorney fatally shot in Philadelphia and called for the perpetrator to be…
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