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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airbus has announced it’s received an order from the Air Lease Corporation for 111 new aircraft, including 25 A220-330s, 55 A321neos, 20 A321 XLRs, four A330neos and seven A350Fs. Monday’s announcement marks the second sale in as many days for the European plane maker,

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is preparing to sign an executive order to help improve public safety and justice for Native Americans during the first tribal nations summit since 2016. Leaders from more than 570 tribes in the United States are expected to join the two-day virtual event beginning

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is paying tribute to Catholic priests, nuns and laypeople who helped care for people with HIV and AIDS during the early period of the epidemic in the U.S. Francis offered the words of praise in a letter to Michael O’Loughlin, national correspondent for the Jesuit magazine America, who wrote the book

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Democrat seeking to become South Carolina’s next governor has a plan to suspend the state’s gas tax, easing the cost of pumping up as pandemic-related supply shortages drive gas prices nationally to record highs. Joe Cunningham previewed his proposal in an interview with The Associated

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — A zoo in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen has proudly presented three female lion cubs born in early October. Visitors can now meet Jamila, Kumani and Malaika. The cubs played on Monday under the watchful eyes of their mother, Fiona, who was brought to the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo in Gelsenkirchen

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have added a prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot to the government’s wanted list, in the latest step to turn up the pressure on opposition activists and independent media. Pyotr Verzilov, a publisher of independent news site Mediazona, was labelled “foreign agent” along with the media outlet and

By LIZ WESTON OF NerdWallet Before you bring up money at a holiday gathering, family and caregiving experts recommend researching options so you can present choices to your parents rather than issuing orders. Be mindful of your tone — you are not your parents’ parent — and consider a variety of ways to broach the

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister says the Cuban government’s decision to revoke the press credentials of journalists working for the Spanish state news agency in Havana is “unacceptable.” The top Spanish diplomat and the news agency are demanding that all the credentials be returned. The Cuban government has given no explanation for its decision

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police say an explosion in a taxi outside a hospital that killed a man is being treated as a terrorist incident, but the motive remains unclear. Russ Jackson, the head of Counterterrorism Policing in northwest England, said the blast on Sunday at Liverpool Women’s Hospital involved

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Sydney lawyer says a group of seven Australia-based women intend to sue Qatar’s government, after the women were forced to undergo gynecological examinations at Doha’s international airport when an abandoned newborn was found in a trash can there last year. The Australian government at the

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19. It’s perhaps the most drastic of a string of measures being taken by European governments to get a massive regional resurgence of the coronavirus

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is expanding sanctions against Belarus to include airlines, travel agents and individuals accused of helping to lure migrants to Europe as part of a “hybrid attack” against the bloc by President Alexander Lukashenko. The EU has already slapped a series of sanctions on Lukashenko

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait has temporarily handed its crown prince some of the ruling emir’s constitutional duties. The royal family’s secretariat made the announcement on Monday without explaining why the transfer was necessary. The brief statement published on the state-run KUNA news agency said only that the government had issued a royal

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Interior Minister says three people have been arrested in connection with an antisemitic demonstration last week where far-right participants shouted “death to the Jews.” The demonstration took place last Thursday on Poland’s Independence Day, in the central Polish city of Kalisz. Participants at the gathering

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese doctors say two more protesters died in the hospital after being shot during demonstrations over the weekend against last month’s military coup. That raises the death toll from Saturday’s protests to seven, all but one from gunshots. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets across Sudan on Saturday to

By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell proposed moving its headquarters from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom and streamlining its structure in hopes of making it easier to move forward in a world transitioning away from a dependence on fossil fuels. The company that’s been incorporated in

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s government is bringing forward a meeting to decide on tighter measures to control the spread of COVID-19 amid a rapid increase in infections and hospital admissions in the nation. The government said the meeting, which was originally set for Friday, was moved up to Wednesday so that any measure approved midweek

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Police in Italy are conducting searches against 17 anti-vaccine activists who were purportedly affiliated with a Telegram chat that espoused violence against government, medical and media figures for their perceived support of COVID-19 restrictions. Police in Turin said the chat group had tens of thousands of members

By GRANT PECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster had been handed over to him in Myanmar and would be soon on his way home

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria is canceling a trip to the Netherlands because of the three-week partial lockdown there amid surging COVID-19 cases in the country. The lockdown began Saturday night and is the first to start in Western Europe since a new wave of infections began surging across parts of the