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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has appeared to criticize the global lack of action on climate change in comments caught on microphone. The 95-year-old British monarch was filmed on a phone as she visited Cardiff to open the Welsh parliament on Thursday. Speaking to her daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and parliament presiding officer

By NICOLAE DUMITRACE and JAN M. OLSEN KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a small Norwegian town is facing a custody hearing Friday. He won’t appear in court because he has confessed to the killings and has agreed to being held in custody.

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next month to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, complying with a judge’s order. It hinges on approval from the Mexican government, which has raised concerns that U.S. officials

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Schools, banks and government offices across Lebanon have shut down to observe a day of mourning announced by the government. The pause comes a day after hours of gun battles involving militiamen using automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades killed seven people and injured dozens more. The

By The Associated Press Americans have watched a public reckoning unfold since 2017 as the #MeToo movement exposed the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in people’s lives. But has the movement changed their own lives in meaningful ways?  A new poll suggests that it has. Roughly half of Americans say the recent attention to

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The #MeToo reckoning hits its four-year mark this week, and Charlotte Bennett credits the movement for creating the conditions that emboldened her to come forward with her story of sexual harassment by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. She says, “I’d like to think that

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (AP) — Zoltan Sztojka, by his own account Hungary’s last Roma fortuneteller, is working to preserve his culture’s traditions that are slowly vanishing in the Central European country. He is a member of Hungary’s large Roma minority, and says his family has been practicing fortunetelling for more than

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is suing Toyota Motor Corp. over a patent for a technology used in electric motors in a rare case of legal wrangling between Japan’s top steelmaker and automaker over intellectual property. Nippon Steel filed the lawsuit in Tokyo District Court, demanding compensation for

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign tourists entering India by regular flights would be able to do so after Nov. 15. It is the first time India has allowed foreign tourists to enter the country since March 2020. It is

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, DARIA LITVINOVA and JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Millions from Latin America to the Middle East are waiting for promised doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine due to manufacturing problems and other issues. Moscow aggressively marketed Sputnik after wealthy nations kept supplies of Western-developed vaccines