AP National News

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The United States and several Western allies have presented a proposal for the U.N.’s main human rights body to hold a special debate over reported rights abuses and violations against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang region. A group of countries including Britain, Canada,

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British pound fell to all-time low against the U.S. dollar early Monday after Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng pledged a sweeping package of tax cuts, fueling concerns about the government’s economic policy as the United Kingdom teeters toward recession. The pound fell as low

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two more suspects have been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting during the Norwegian capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival. The total number of suspects is now at four. A 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was arrested shortly after the June shootings in Oslo’s nightlife district that killed two people

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A multi-story building has collapsed outside Kenya’s capital, and rescuers are picking through the debris in search of several people reported missing. Kenya’s national broadcaster reports that at least three people died in the collapse in Kirigiti on Monday. It is not immediately clear what caused the building collapse. Such incidents

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Apple Inc. will make its iPhone 14 in India, the company said on Monday, as manufacturers shift production from China amid geopolitical tensions and pandemic restrictions that have disrupted supply chains for many industries. “The new iPhone 14 lineup introduces groundbreaking new technologies and important safety

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman says the German leader has tested positive for the coronavirus. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told dpa that Scholz has mild symptoms and immediately entered isolation. He has canceled all public appearances this week but plans to take part virtually in internal government meetings, Hebestreit said. Scholz returned from

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s largest economy is sending recession signals. Germany’s key future indicator has pointed down for the fourth month in a row as high inflation fed by astronomical natural gas prices undermines consumer pricing power and imposes heavy costs on businesses. The Ifo index dropped to 84.3 in September from 88.5 in

By CRISTIANA MESQUITA Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian moved near the Cayman Islands and closer to western Cuba early Monday on a track to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week. Ian was forecast to intensify rapidly and become a major hurricane as soon as late Monday before becoming an even stronger

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Presss CAIRO (AP) — Local officials in Libya say that a new round of infighting between rogue militias in the country’s west has killed at least five people, including a 10-year-old girl. It’s the latest bout of violence to rock the North African nation, mired in decadelong chaos. The fighting broke

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s justice minister remains under police protection after four people suspected of taking part in an alleged plot to kidnap him were arrested in the Netherlands over the weekend. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said he is “safe and in good hands.” The federal prosecutor’s office told

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An alleged senior leader of a predominantly Muslim rebel group that ousted the president of Central African Republic in 2013 has pleaded not guilty at the International Criminal Court to seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors at the global court accuse

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say a fire that broke out at the basement of a shopping mall in the South Korean city of Daejeon has killed at least seven people. Firefighters are continuing to search for survivors after putting out the blaze on Monday afternoon. It’s not immediately clear if there are people

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A semiofficial news agency in Iran says the powerful Revolutionary Guard has used drone strikes and artillery to target what Tehran says are bases of Iranian Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq. It’s the second such cross-border assault since the weekend, at a time when Iran is convulsing with protests

MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman on Monday morning killed nine people and wounded 20 others in a school in central Russia, authorities said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said in an online statement that two guards, two teachers and five students were killed in the shooting in a school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometres (596

MOSCOW (AP) — Local police say a gunman has killed six people and wounded 20 others in a school in central Russia. Governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement Monday that the still unidentified shooter got into a school in Izhevsk, the region’s capital and killed a guard and some

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Banks in crisis-hit Lebanon have partially reopened following a weeklong closure amid a wave of heists and protests. The banks only opened a handful of branches on Monday and only welcomed commercial transactions by appointment. Anxious Lebanese citizens huddled around ATM machines, truing to withdraw cash. In

By NICOLE WINFIELD, FRANCES D’EMILIO and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy’s national elections, looking set to deliver the country’s first far-right-led government since World War II and make its leader, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman premier, near-final results

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ruling party’s cozy ties with the ultra-conservative Unification Church that has fired

LONDON (AP) — The British pound fell to all-time low against the U.S. dollar early Monday after Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng pledged further tax cuts, fueling concerns about the government’s economic policy. The pound fell as low as $1.0373, before rallying to $1.0672 in early London trading. It was its lowest level since the decimalization

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has held a series of meetings with foreign dignitaries in what he has called “funeral diplomacy” on the day before he hosts a controversial state-sponsored funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe. Kishida has been criticized for pushing to hold a state funeral