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By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her…
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Continue ReadingBy WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after Japan’s central bank kept its lax monetary…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders and member nations are putting forward moves to ensure the EU would not be…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British judges have given the go-ahead for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the British government’s plan to send some…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has opened the trial of a journalist and prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority. It was the…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The World Economic Forum is back with its first winter meetup since 2020 in the Swiss…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says he wants the German government to supply a wide range of weapons to Ukraine. He also voiced…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia and Belarus have launched joint air force drills in an exercise that underlines close defense ties between the allies amid the…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TULP Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Debt from holiday spending and other end-of-year costs often comes due in January, and with rising interest rates,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara,…
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum…
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the…
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal say a bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to meet with her Chinese counterpart in Switzerland on…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mail has asked customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations until further notice as it tries to…
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The four-day event celebrating African musicians across the continent culminated Sunday…
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As a crowd of thousands chanted “Long live the king” and…
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Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be…
Continue ReadingBy VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Europe and Asia on Monday ahead of China’s release of…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report says companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty group Oxfam says companies making big profits as inflation surges should face windfall…
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government says it plans to privatize electricity generation, a…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to make way for a coal mine expansion has been cleared of activists, apart…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian energy giant Eni has announced what it calls a significant gas discovery offshore of Egypt in the eastern Mediterranean. In a…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received an honor guard welcome Sunday…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH AND VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest on…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan is ready to party, with menswear shows for next spring and winter focused on nighttime…
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thousands of protesters angry at Tunisia’s economic crisis and the president’s increasingly authoritarian drift have…
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been in the national spotlight a lot lately, and…
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and also ticked down across the nation at large, analysts said. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany has inaugurated its second liquefied natural gas terminal. It is part of a drive by Europe’s biggest economy to put…
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Retired army Gen. Petr Pavel has narrowly defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in the first…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIPP JENNE Associated Press ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain on Saturday to protest the clearance…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday promised to provide tanks and artillery…
Continue ReadingBy SIARHEI SATSIUK Associated Press VALAKELIAI, Lithuania (AP) — The head of Lithuania’s national gas transmission system says a powerful gas…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN P.D. HANNON Associated Press Maine scored its first Mega Millions jackpot — and someone beat the ill fortune of Friday the 13th — when a…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer California poultry producer Foster Farms said Friday its grain inventories have been restored after the federal…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Airline executives are pushing Congress and the White House to step up funding for the Federal…
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