Month: October 2021

By RAHIM FAEIZ and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The group’s chief spokesman says the Taliban have arrested four Islamic State members north of the Afghan capital, while witnesses said two Taliban fighters were shot dead in the northeast, raising the specter of all-out conflict. Zabihullah Mujahid said Wednesday an operation was

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for the global community to stop a “humanitarian catastrophe” which she said is being created by the Belarusian regime as it facilitates largescale migration into the European Union. Thousands of migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa have been

By HUIZHONG WU and DAVID RISING Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been stepping up its harassment of the island it claims as its own, demonstrating a new level of threat as it asserts its territorial ambitions in the region. With

By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is escalating his campaign to get Congress to lift the federal debt limit. He will host business leaders at the White House on Wednesday and is warning that failure to extend the government’s borrowing authority could set off a global financial

MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have brought another case against the so-called “Lizard King” of Florida, accusing him of scheming to export illegally harvested turtles to China and Japan. They say Michael Van Nostrand and his company, Strictly Reptiles, established a network of “collectors” who searched the Florida wilds for fresh-water specimens including the three-stripe

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press Al-MUFAGARA, West Bank (AP) — Residents of a small Palestinian shepherding village in the occupied West Bank say an Israeli settler attack last week was especially violent but not unusual. The attack damaged much of the village’s fragile infrastructure and a 4-year-old boy was hospitalized after being struck in the

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit. The idea is getting some attention in Washington as an Oct.

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain is experiencing empty gas pumps, worker shortages and unavailable items on store shelves. None of that got a mention from Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday as he brushed off Britain’s economic bumps and said the country would emerge from Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany plummeted 7.7% in August compared with the previous month, led by much lower demand from countries outside the eurozone. The drop in orders is a leading indicator for Europe’s biggest economy. It followed month-on-month gains of 4.6% in June and 4.9% in July. The