Month: November 2021

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A newly founded anti-corruption party appears to be the winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary election, according to initial exit poll data. The poll conducted by Gallup International showed the centrist We Continue the Change earning 25.8% of the vote Sunday, apparently edging out the center-right opposition GERB

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s national research body says it will start clinical trials for a domestically made coronavirus vaccine. The country’s acting health minister told reporters on Sunday that researchers are starting human clinical trials for the shot, named COVI VAX, that will eventually include thousands of people. The Egyptian vaccine works by including proteins

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — The victims of a deadly plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island include a real estate agent and a couple who were planning to open a winery and vineyard there. The plane crashed Saturday afternoon west of Mackinaw City, killing four of five people on board. Lt. William Church of the

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas TV station reports that troopers investigating a crash that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway didn’t suspect the driver of the box truck that hit them was impaired, even though a blood test later found he had a potentially lethal level of methamphetamine in his

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say an off-duty Baltimore police officer who was getting a haircut shot and killed a man who burst into a barber shop and fatally shot a barber. Police said they believe the same man was responsible for two earlier shootings, one of them fatal. One victim was in critical condition after

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A 65-year-old man has died after he set himself on fire in central province of Markazi when a court issued a verdict against him in dispute with his employer. YJC.ir, a news website affiliated with Iran’s state TV, is reporting that the man set himself on fire in front of a

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo held runoff municipal elections in almost two-thirds of the country after the center-right opposition parties dominated in the first round of voting. About 1.26 million voters in the small Balkan nation were eligible to cast ballots in the second round on Sunday to elect mayors in 21 out of 38

HOUSTON (AP) — Brianna Rodriguez, who was killed as the crowd pushed toward the stage at Astroworld in Houston, was remembered by friends and family for her friendliness and love of dance. At 16, she was among the youngest of the 10 people who died at the music festival Nov. 5. The Houston Chronicle reports