Month: November 2021

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Barbados has stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders, dignitaries and artists, including Prince Charles, attended a ceremony that began late Monday and

By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Uganda’s army has launched joint air and artillery strikes against the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group in eastern Congo. Uganda People’s Defense Forces spokeswoman Brig. Gen. Flavia Byekwaso said via Twitter that the operations were carried out with Congo’s military against ADF camps. No further details

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency saiys China, Russia and Iran pose three of the biggest threats facing the U.K. in a fast-changing, unstable world. MI6 chief Richard Moore says the three countries and international terrorism make up the “big four” security issues confronting Britain’s spies.

PARIS (AP) — Dutch health authorities have announced that they found the new omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back 11 days, indicating that it was already spreading in western Europe before the first cases were identified in southern Africa. Japan and France have confirmed their first cases of the new variant of

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A former member of the Islamic State group has been convicted by a German court of genocide and committing a war crime over the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl he had purchased as a slave and then chained up in the hot sun to die.  The

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate. The European Union’s statistics agency said Tuesday that the eurozone’s annual inflation rate hit 4.9% in November, largely as a result of a huge spike in

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is striking a hard line after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal. The comments on Tuesday suggested everything discussed in previous rounds of diplomacy could be renegotiated. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator referred to everything discussed thus far as

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. (AP) — Sweden’s first female prime minister has presented her one-party minority government with only a few changes compared to her previous Cabinet. Magdalena Andersson had been Sweden’s finance minister and she picked Mikael Damberg to replace her in that role Tuesday. Damberg previously had been home affairs minister. Andersson is the leader

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy and ordered the social network to sell off the GIF-sharing platform. It said Tuesday that the deal hurts social media users and advertisers by stifling competition for animated images. The Competition and Markets Authority says

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook’s acquisition of GIF-sharing platform Giphy and ordered the social network to reverse the deal. It said Tuesday that the deal hurts social media users and advertisers by stifling competition for animated images. The Competition and Markets Authority says the deal would let Facebook “increase