Month: January 2022

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital in…

By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI and ISIFU WIRFENGLA Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The death toll has risen to eight following a crush outside a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say vaccinated tourists do not need a booster shot to cross into Abu…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has a woman on its highest court for the first time. Fifty-five-year-old Judge Ayesha Malik on Monday took her oath of…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police say gunmen shot and killed a police officer providing security for polio vaccination workers. The…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An expert panel has advised the Israeli government to begin offering a fourth vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 18. The…

MOSCOW (AP) — Widespread power outages have been reported on Tuesday in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The…

By MEHMET GUZEL and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Rescue crews in Istanbul and Athens have dug through snow and ice to clear…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jury selection is underway in the murder trail of a man who killed four people at a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The husband of a prominent human rights activist says his wife has been sentenced to more than eight years in…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s refusal to join other NATO members in providing weapons to Ukraine has annoyed some…

By RENATA BRITO, FRANK JORDANS and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A confidential European Union military report is calling for the…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press DURACH, Germany (AP) — Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed in muted trading, as many stayed on the sidelines ahead of a U.S. Federal…

SUBANG, Malaysia (AP) — New Malaysian carrier, SKS Airways, took to the skies Tuesday with short-haul flights to holiday island resorts as domestic…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions after more than 200 cases of COVID-19 were…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Twice in the past week, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched attacks with missiles and drones on the…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABDELRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial options being bruited about to punish President Vladimir Putin if Russia…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean military officials say North Korea test-fired two suspected cruise…