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By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister says five people have been killed and 16 wounded in armed clashes that erupted in Beirut during protests organized by Hezbollah and its allies against the lead investigator into last year’s massive blast at the city’s port. The minister told

LONDON (AP) — A work by street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4 million could make several times that price at an auction. “Love is in the Bin” is being offered at auction Thursday by Sotheby’s in London with a pre-sale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds

By KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William has criticized some of the world’s richest men for using their wealth to fund a new space race and space tourism, and called on the world’s great minds to fix the planet first. The Duke of Cambridge spoke to the BBC about climate anxiety, COP26,

By SUZAN FRASER and KATHY GANNON Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has met with a high-level delegation from Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. The meeting on Thursday in Ankara is the first between the Taliban and senior Turkish government officials after the insurgent group seized control of Afghanistan in August. A Taliban

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest level since the pandemic began, a sign the job market is still improving even as hiring has slowed in the past two months. Unemployment claims dropped 36,000 to 293,000, the second straight drop, the

BRUSSELS (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a group of Afghan women are on the shortlist to win the European Union’s top human rights prize. Completing the trio of final nominees for the Sakharov Prize is imprisoned Bolivian politician and former interim president Jeanine Anez. The winner of the prize will be

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, its onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani and conservative media figures are asking a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems who argues he lost his job after being named in false charges as trying

MADRID (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is predicting that achieving European Union targets for slashing emissions that cause global warming will be “very hard work.” The so-called European Green Deal, agreed last December, provides a blueprint for cutting gas emissions by 55% over this decade and becoming carbon-neutral in the 27-nation bloc by 2050.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s new prime minister has presented his center-left minority government a day after a man killed five in a bow-and-arrow attack in a small town. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere stood Thursday outside the royal palace with his 19-member team that includes 10 women and nine men. The outgoing and incoming