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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized a ship in the Red Sea, armed drones targeted Baghdad’s international airport, and hackers hit a major Israeli newspaper. The assaults Monday show the reach of Iran-allied militias on the anniversary of America’s killing of a top Iranian general. All

BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets and U.S. futures are mostly higher on 2022′s first trading day after Wall Street ended last year with a double-digit gain. Frankfurt and Paris opened higher while Seoul and India advanced. Hong Kong retreated. Markets in Britain, China, Japan and Australia were closed. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official figures show that Turkey’s yearly inflation has climbed by the fastest pace in 19 years, jumping to 36.08% in December. The Turkish Statistical Institute said Monday that the consumer price index increased by 13.58% in December from the previous month, further eroding peoples’ purchasing power. The yearly increase in food

By HUIZHONG WU and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has welcomed a new batch of pro-Beijing lawmakers in its Legislative Council who were chosen in an election held without opposition candidates. The new lawmakers took their seats after a Hong Kong online news site said it will cease operations because

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says a person who crossed the border into North Korea on New Year’s Day was likely a defector who had slipped through the same heavily fortified frontier in the other direction in late 2020. South Korean surveillance equipment detected an unidentified person entering

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has begun vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more states are enforcing tighter restrictions to arrest a surge of infections stoked by the omicron variant. On Monday, state governments across the country administered doses at schools, hospitals

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world coexist with this virus? Experts agree that the coronavirus is here to stay. Ending the pandemic won’t be like flipping a light switch. Nor do scientists expect

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray the woman who was shot by a police officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a righteous martyr who was unjustly killed. But the life of the 35-year-old Air Force veteran from California, Ashli Babbitt,

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the conspiratorial lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Likewise, Biden has prioritized other matters ahead of voting rights — a matter that directly relates to the

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House nearly a year ago seemed to herald a historic shift toward less U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons and possibly a shrinking of the number of such arms. Then came revelations about China’s expanding nuclear force and about talk

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — After taking an extended holiday break, the jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will get back to their deliberations Monday. The eight men and four women who will determine Holmes’ fate spent much of their holiday season behind closed doors

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Search teams looked for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire while people who escaped the flames sorted through what was left. Investigators were still trying to determine what caused flames to tear through at least 9.4 square miles, leaving nearly

The Associated Press A winter storm packing heavy snow is expected to roll into the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and central Maryland overnight, bringing at least 3 to 7 inches of snow through Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the area from 1 a.m. to 4 p.m.

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed on 2022′s first trading day after Wall Street ended last year with a double-digit gain. Hong Kong retreated while Seoul gained. Markets in Japan, China and Australia were closed. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index slipped Friday amid lingering worries about the coronavirus’s omicron variant but ended

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) — Quebec is proceeding with the first of three planned closures of non-essential retail stores as the provincial government tried to curb a new wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant. Hospitals and health-care resources in Quebec and Canada’s remote northern communities are also being stretched as case numbers

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hackers have targeted the website of an Israeli newspaper. The hackers, who did not immediately identify themselves, replaced the Jerusalem Post’s web content with an image that threatened a site associated with Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program. The hacking came on the anniversary on

WASHINGTON (AP) — The late former Senate majority leader from Nevada, Harry Reid, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week. The leaders of Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, say ceremonies honoring Reid at the Capitol will take place on Jan. 12. Due to the COVID-19

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his country’s health system can cope with the new wave of coronavirus infections as Victoria state reported a record number of new cases and hospitalizations surged in New South Wales. Morrison spoke in two television interviews before Monday’s figures were released. Victoria reported 8,577 new cases,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home. In a statement Sunday night, Austin says he plans to attend key meetings and discussions virtually in the coming week “to the degree possible.” Austin says he was fully vaccinated and received

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing has died. She was 93. Maxine McNair’s family announced her death in a press release Sunday. A cause of death was not given. Her daughter, 11-year-old Denise McNair, was the youngest girl killed