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By MIKE CATALINI, WAYNE PARRY and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Police are going door to door and drawing up lists of the missing as the death toll edges higher from the catastrophic flooding set off in the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. At least 49 people in five

BERLIN (AP) — German automaker Daimler has dismissed a “cease and desist” demand from two environmental groups to commit to ending the sale of combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Lawyers for Greenpeace and the group Deutsche Umwelthilfe have threatened to sue Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen unless they sign a legal pledge not to put new

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A second child of an Afghan family evacuated from Kabul to Poland has died after eating soup containing death cap mushrooms, which the family had unknowingly gathered in a Polish forest outside their quarantine center. The 6-year-old boy had received an emergency liver transplant but doctors

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first

By DANIEL COLE, SYLVIE CORBET and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron opened a global summit on biodiversity calling for better protection of the high seas, which largely don’t fall under any national jurisdiction but are threatened by fishing and other human activities. Speaking Friday at the  summit in

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SANGEH, Indonesia (AP) — Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers’ homes in their search for something

DEBARK, Ethiopia (AP) — As they bring war to other parts of Ethiopia, resurgent Tigray fighters face growing allegations that they are retaliating for the abuses their people suffered back home. In interviews with The Associated Press, more than a dozen witnesses offered the most widespread descriptions yet of Tigray forces striking communities and a

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The center-right Union bloc’s candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in Germany’s election this month is struggling to reverse a sustained downward trend in the polls. The bloc’s candidate for the chancellorship, Armin Laschet, on Friday named named eight experts to advise him

The Associated Press The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also appeal “for full

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities are enforcing a security lockdown and a near-total communications blackout for a second day in disputed Kashmir after the death of a top resistance leader. Syed Ali Geelani’s death at age 91 and the ensuing crackdown by Indian authorities highlight the turmoil seething just