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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is set to sign a declaration of intent with neighboring Jordan on building a major solar power plant in the kingdom that will be used to generate electricity for Israel. That plant also would power a desalination plant there to send water onto Jordan. That’s according to Eyal

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrians are enjoying a last day out in coffeehouses and at Christmas markets before the government will impose a nationwide lockdown to combat a growing fourth wave of coronavirus infections. The measures take effect Monday and are expected to last for a maximum of 20 days. But

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have arrested more than 30 people amid unrest in The Hague and other towns in the Netherlands that followed violence that erupted the previous night at a protest against coronavirus restrictions. The violence Saturday night by groups of youths in The Hague and elsewhere

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen have shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The top administrator in Harnai district in Baluchistan province said Sunday the early morning violence took place in the Sharag area where most of the province’s coal

The class of U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2022 includes the most women ever selected for the scholarship in one year. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday that 22 women are among the 32 students chosen to study at the University of Oxford in England. The selection process has been completed virtually for the second year in

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiancee of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices calling on pop star Justin Bieber to cancel his concert in Saudi Arabia next month. In an open letter published by The Washington Post, she urged the Canadian megastar to cancel

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say that a German reporter was briefly detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia with a group of migrants. Police said in a statement late Saturday that a court has ordered the 44-year-old German citizen to pay a fine of about 500 euros. The statement says

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The fiance of slain Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus of voices calling on pop star Justin Bieber to cancel his concert in Saudi Arabia next month. In an open letter published by The Washington Post, she urged the Canadian megastar to cancel

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian assailant killed one Israeli and injured four others near the entrance to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site before being fatally shot by Israeli police. Police say the violence took place near an entrance to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews as the Temple

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile has warned that a rebel takeover of the crucial, energy-rich city of Marib would be a disaster on the scale of the collapse of its ancient dam that decimated an entire kingdom. Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak’s

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press MANDALIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Toprak Razgatlioglu, a Yamaha rider, became the first-ever Turkish rider to win the Superbike World Championship after finishing second behind six-time world champion Jonathan Rea in the first of two races at the beachside Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit. The final round on

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are at the polls to choose a new president in a hotly contested runoff amid a COVID-19 surge and a political crisis that has gripped the European Union’s poorest country. The choice is between incumbent Rumen Radev and Sofia University rector Anastas Gerdzhikov. Both are

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man was fatally shot by Israeli police after he killed one Israeli and wounded four others near the entrance to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. Israeli police say the violence took place near an entrance to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Military and government officials say a deal has been reached between Sudan’s military and civilian leaders to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month. The officials said Sunday that government officials and politicians arrested since the Oct. 25 coup will be

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KAKHOVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is setting records almost every day for coronavirus infections and deaths. Vaccination rates in Eastern Europe have generally lagged and Ukraine has one of the lowest. But the situation has turned dire nearly two years since the virus swept into Europe because

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died. She was 84. Japanese media reports say Wada died Nov. 13. No cause of death was given. Wada was catapulted to stardom by the samurai costumes she

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Two women whose relatives died from the coronavirus at home are questioning the Japanese government’s policy of having some infected people recuperate in their own homes. The move comes as the government says it will ensure the availability of more hospital beds for any future COVID-19

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Missing tennis star Peng Shuai has reappeared in public at a youth tournament in Beijing, according to photos released by the organizer, as the ruling Communist Party tried to quell fears about her while suppressing information after she accused a senior leader of sexual assault. The posting

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A divided Venezuelan opposition has found itself  on familiar territory, having lost an overwhelming majority of races disputed in a regional election over the weekend. But the divisions over how to move forward from their expected defeat and achieve their goal of knocking off President

By EVA VERGARA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans appear to be voting in heavy numbers on the country’s next president following a polarizing campaign in which leading candidates vowed to chart a new direction in the region’s most economically advanced country. Polls consistently have favored former student protest leader Gabriel