News

By TED SHAFFREY and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, who spent nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has arrived in the United States. Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. He was handed over Monday to former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson,

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died after her husband sued in an unsuccessful effort to get her treated with ivermectin. Tamara Drock’s husband told the Palm Beach Post that she died on Friday, 12 weeks after being admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Ryan Drock

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is ready to offer whatever support it can to help mend relations between Lebanon and Gulf Arab nations. The unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations unraveled late last month and has threatened to destabilize Lebanon’s new government and escalate the country’s

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior American official overseeing arms exports says the U.S. remains “fully committed” to a proposed sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates despite the Biden administration slowing down the deal. Mira Resnick of the State Department made the

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Veterans and officials from China and the United States have celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers, American pilots who flew for China in World War II, as a historic example of better relations and cooperation. The online event was held the day leaders of the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it will resume allowing air travel to Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mongolia starting Dec. 1. The government coronavirus task force said Russia will also lift the remaining restrictions on flights to Cuba, Mexico and Qatar, and increase the number of flights to Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Vietnam.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been found on the suspect and that material on the 27-year-old’s Facebook

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says Hungary broke EU law by making it a criminal offense to help migrants apply for asylum. The ruling issued Tuesday is a new legal blow to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s staunchly anti-migrant government. Worried by the arrival of asylum-seekers, Orban accused

By KEN MORITSUGU and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has welcomed a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden as raising hopes for better relations, while the U.S. was more muted on the talks. The video conference, which took place Tuesday morning in Beijing and Monday evening in

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A powerful commander in Libya has announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential elections next month. Khalifa Hifter submitted his candidacy papers in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and released a video about the decision. He commands the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces that has

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s elected public advocate Jumaane Williams is running for New York governor. The self-described activist is the most progressive candidate in next year’s increasingly crowded Democratic primary race already featuring Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James. Williams is a 45-year-old former

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos in Oct. 2020. The report calls the shootings “a massacre” and says that police also “shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Associations representing restaurants and catering businesses in Greece are holding strikes and protests across the country while demanding renewed financial relief from the government due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Normally busy restaurants, coffee shops and traditional tavernas in Athens remained