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PARIS (AP) — France will let in travelers from Britain who are vaccinated against COVID-19 without having to self-isolate or to offer an valid reason for the trip. French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday that travel restrictions will be eased starting Friday because the highly-contagious omicron variant is now largely dominant in both

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Britain have launched talks on a free trade deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade by billions of dollars in one of the most ambitious negotiations after Brexit. Britain’s International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan met with Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior British government ministers have expressed support for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and rejected demands he resign for attending a garden party during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said Thursday that Johnson had made a “very, very sincere” apology, and Foreign

By CHRISTOPH NOELTING and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — A former Syrian secret police officer was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago. Anwar Raslan is the highest-ranking Syrian official so far convicted of the

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is investigating after an 80-year-old Palestinian with U.S. citizenship died of a heart attack after being detained by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. The State Department says it is in touch with the Israeli government to seek “clarification” about the incident, which occurred early Wednesday. Omar Asaad was detained

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor has extended the detention period for a suspect in custody over the 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family and a cyclist in the French Alps. Saad al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and his mother-in-law Souhaila al-Allaf, were shot dead on a remote mountain road near Annecy in eastern France. French

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mostly lower in Europe and Asia after the latest report of surging prices in the U.S. appeared to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates in coming months. London, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai were lower while Sydney and Hong Kong advanced.

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rescuers in South Korea have located a man under a pile of broken concrete at the construction site of a 39-floor building that partially collapsed, leaving six workers missing. Crews are trying to clear the rubble to reach the man, but have yet to confirm

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The emirate of Ajman is warning its government employees that they will be penalized for coming into contact for a second time with anyone who has contracted COVID-19. State-linked media in the United Arab Emirates reported Thursday that federal employees in Ajman will not receive paid sick leave for

BEIRUT (AP) — A general strike by public transportation and labor unions has paralyzed Lebanon as the nation suffers through one of the world’s worst economic crises. Thursday’s protests come as the country’s ruling class has done almost nothing to pull the country out of its meltdown, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement. Universities

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry says troops that are part of a Russia-led security alliance are preparing to pull out of Kazakhstan. The withdrawal announced on Thursday comes a week after they were deployed to the ex-Soviet nation on the request of its president, who was seeking to