Month: November 2021

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering asking NATO for emergency talks as they struggle to manage a tense standoff on their borders with Belarus. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says the three governments are discussing whether to ask for talks under part of

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media says two moderate earthquakes have struck the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan. Iran’s Seismological Center said that the quakes of magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 struck Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday afternoon, some 1000 kilometers (640 miles) south of the Iranian capital of Tehran. It said the

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s citizen’s arrest and self-defense laws are key to the defense strategy in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The defense is arguing father and son Greg and Travis McMichael suspected the 25-year-old Black man in burglaries and pursued him

GENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery once used by the school that operated

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming. Francis in remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday said the cry of the poor, united to the cry of

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the country has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in a prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters. Prison official Arshad Shah said Sunday that the group left the Karachi central prison and boarded a bus for the eastern

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people to slow the fast spread of the coronavirus in the country. The move prohibits unvaccinated individuals older than age 12 from leaving their homes except for basic activities such as work, grocery shopping, going for a

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three dozen Kuwaiti dissidents in a move aimed at defusing a government standoff.  The royal decree, published late Saturday in Kuwait’s official gazette, said that Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah had cut

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says Israel has been using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from farming and pasture lands in the occupied West Bank. A report released Sunday by the group B’Tselem details the takeover of roughly 11 square miles of farm and pasture land in the