AP National News

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Brexit brawl has kicked into high gear, almost a year after a deal on a free trade agreement was supposed to have officially sealed the separation between the European Union and the United Kingdom. The top Brexit negotiators from both sides entered talks again Friday, with

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Three German parties have announced that they aim to open formal coalition talks, moving a big step closer to a new government that would send outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc into opposition. The prospective partners said Friday they have a major opportunity to modernize Europe’s biggest

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It issued a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings of American families. The report lays out steps that could potentially alter the

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A teenager in Liberia who has become a national hero after finding $50,000 and returning it to its rightful owner said he will meet with the country’s president next week. Emmanuel Tuloe told The Associated Press that he has been invited to meet President George Weah

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers assaulted a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending weekly Friday prayers, killing at least seven people and wounding more than a dozen, according to a hospital official and an eyewitness. The attack on the Imam Barga

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record, a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe load on the country’s health care system. The government’s coronavirus task force on Friday reported 32,196 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 999 deaths in the

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman for Baton Rouge police told news outlets that four of the juveniles took off in a vehicle and the fifth ran away. The inmate who ran was captured first. News outlets

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A bus transporting oil refinery workers has fallen into a sinkhole in the center of Greece’s second-largest city as a storm continued to batter the country. Authorities said all 15 people on the bus in Thessaloniki were unharmed. Hundreds of homes in Athens, Greece’s capital, were flooded. Major roads remained closed

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all workers to show a health pass to enter their place of employment. Police were out in force, schools were closing early and embassies issued warnings amid concerns that anti-vaccination demonstrations could turn violent

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say a woman who was seriously injured in last month’s huge apartment building explosion and fire in Sweden has died. At least 140 apartments were damaged and four people were seriously hurt, including the woman who has now died. Earlier this month, the suspect in the explosion was found

By LOU KESTEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is being treated in a Southern California hospital for a non-COVID-19-related infection. Spokesman Angel Ureña says Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening. Ureña says Clinton “is on the mend, in

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least seven people were killed and over a dozen wounded in an explosion at a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, a hospital official said. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, which came a week after a bombing claimed by

PARIS (AP) — French schools are paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. Samuel Paty was murdered on Oct. 16 last year near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had

MADRID (AP) — A second 4.5-magnitude earthquake in two days has rattled the Spanish island of La Palma. The two quakes were the strongest to hit the Canary Island off northwest Africa since the volcano erupted on Sept. 19. Rivers of molten rock that scientists described on Friday as “a true lava tsunami” forced the

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed by a mob. Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyaribai confirmed the killing of Masten Wanjala on Thursday. The killing near his home in Bungoma county came a day

BEIJING (AP) — Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China has renewed its commitment to international cooperation in the peaceful use of space. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says sending humans into space was a common cause of mankind and China would continue to extend the depth and breadth of

ROME (AP) — Protests erupted in Italy on Friday on of Europe’s most stringent anti-coronavirus measure went into effect, requiring all workers, from magistrates to maids, to show a health pass to get into their place of employment. Police were out in force, schools were closing early and embassies issued warnings of possible violence amid

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It’s issuing a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings of American families. The mortgage process, stock market disclosures, retirement plans, federal procurement

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman for Baton Rouge police told news outlets that four of the juveniles took off in a vehicle and the fifth ran away. The inmate who ran has been captured. The other

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging former King Juan Carlos I to offer a public explanation of his suspected financial wrongdoings. The 83-year-old former monarch has been the target of official investigations in Spain and Switzerland. One of them involved possible kickbacks in a high-speed railway contract in Saudi Arabia. Sánchez told broadcaster