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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hospitals in the southern Dutch province of Limburg are warning the national government that they can no longer cope with new COVID-19 patients. The warning Tuesday comes amid soaring rates of coronavirus infections. Five hospitals in the province that borders both Belgium and Germany raised

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer General Electric is splitting itself into three public companies that concentrate on aviation, healthcare and energy. The company said Tuesday that it plans a spinoff of its healthcare business in early 2023 and of its energy segment in early 2024. GE anticipates keeping a 19.9% stake in the healthcare

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Coronavirus deaths in Russia have hit a new record  two days after a nine-day non-working period ended in most of the country’s regions. The state coronavirus task force reported 1,211 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, Russia’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic. The task force also reported

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Sony and TSMC of Taiwan say they are jointly building a computer chip plant in Japan with an initial investment of $7 billion. The plant in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, will be the first foundry in Japan for TSMC, one of the world’s leading

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man reportedly armed with a knife has threatened passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, before being shot dead by police. Norwegian media published footage of the alleged attacker, naked from the waist up and wielding a knife. Police said a patrol car in the Bislett neighborhood of

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man reportedly armed with a knife attacked passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Tuesday, before being shot dead by police, officials said. Norwegian media published footage of the alleged attacker, naked from the waist up and wielding a knife. Police said only that there was “more

By RAF CASERT and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is warning that the virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy will be addictive and rob people of personal information while giving the company another monopoly online. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark wants to again consider COVID-19 as “a socially critical disease,” the Danish government said Monday, months after the label was removed and the restrictions were phased out, paving the way for the reintroduction of the digital corona pass. Denmark, too has seen an uptick

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan has reported a $479 million profit for the last quarter, a reversal from the loss it racked up a year earlier. The improvement came despite shortages of computer chips that are plaguing the auto industry. Chief Operating Officer Ashwani Gupta said Tuesday that Nissan’s performance

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police have formally charged an Azeri man on suspicion that he planned to carry out the contract killings of Israelis living in Cyprus. A law enforcement official said on Tuesday that the 38 year-old suspect will go on trial next month on eight charges including

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s government says more than 20 children were killed and dozens more were injured when a fire swept through a school in Niger’s second-largest city,  Maradi. Three classrooms made of straw were consumed by the fire at the pre-school and primary school called ‘AFN’, taking the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Nicaragua. The quake, at a moderate depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles) occurred at 12:25 a.m. local time Tuesday. The epicenter was 61.4 kilometers (38.1 miles) south of

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are mixed after Wall Street hit a record for an eighth day. London opened little-changed while Frankfurt, Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. The future for Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index was up less than 0.1%. U.S. stocks were

By ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s top court has postponed the appeal hearing for a Malaysian man on death row believed to be mentally disabled, after he was diagnosed with COVID-19. The 33-year-old Malaysian man, who is not vaccinated, was scheduled to be executed by hanging on Wednesday for trying to smuggle

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have posted video showing a group of migrants who camped overnight just on the far side of Poland’s eastern border in Belarus. Polish riot police and coils of razor wire faced the migrants and police said the situation overnight was calm.

By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Two leading international rights groups have urged Sudan’s military to release government officials, activists and others detained during the army’s coup last month. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Tuesday also appealed for an end to “further arbitrary arrests” and the crackdown that has been

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says China is seeking to take control of the island by wearing down its military capabilities and influencing public opinion. The Defense Ministry says in a report that China’s ultimate goal is to bring the island, which Beijing claims, under its rule while avoiding an all-out military conflict. China has

By RAF CASERT Associated Press POPERINGE, Belgium (AP) — The pandemic has crippled remembrance tourism in Belgium, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in World War I. Before, tens of thousands would visit the battlefields to reminisce about sacrifice and slaughter. Resilient locals managed to get through the long lockdowns and travel restrictions

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama has dropped in on U.N. climate talks to urge young climate activists to stay in the fight. Obama is credited as one of the leaders responsible for the 2015 Paris climate accord. In a speech, a roundtable and other events Monday

By TANYA TITOVA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A large Russian island north of Japan will be a testing ground for Moscow’s efforts to reconcile its prized fossil fuel industry with the need to do something about climate change. More than two-thirds of Sakhalin Island is forested, and authorities there have set