Month: November 2021

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LYON, France (AP) — Shedding her anonymity in an interview with The Associated Press, the wife of the former president of Interpol who disappeared and was imprisoned in China has now chosen for the first time to show her face. Grace Meng agreed to be filmed and photographed without the

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved new measures to rein in record coronavirus infections after the head of Germany’s disease control agency warned the country could face a “really terrible Christmas.” The measures passed in the Bundestag on Thursday includes requirements for employees to prove they are vaccinated, recovered

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is giving $139 million to police departments across the U.S. as part of a grant program that would bring on more than 1,000 new officers. The grant funding announced Thursday comes through the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and will be

By ROSALIE MURPHY of NerdWallet Many small businesses close within a few years of opening. If that’s true for yours, work with a lawyer or financial adviser to make sure you shut down correctly. Take time to care for yourself and mourn the loss. Then, perform a postmortem to understand what mistakes you made, what

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has cut interest rates by 1 percentage point a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke out against high borrowing rates. It comes despite soaring consumer prices that have pinched families and businesses. The Central Bank’s monetary committee announced Thursday that it was reducing the policy rate to

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (AP) — Jurors in the “Unite the Right” civil trial are set to hear closing arguments in a lawsuit that seeks to hold white nationalists accountable for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville in 2017. Lawyers for nine people hurt or emotionally scarred over two days of chaos allege the defendants conspired to

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — At least 25 people were killed by unidentified gunmen in an attack earlier this week in southwest Niger, the government said on Wednesday. It is the latest in a string of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in the conflict-ridden West African nation,

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has charged a domestic worker employed by the country’s defense minister with espionage, after he allegedly made contact with an Iranian entity and offered to use his proximity to the minister to relay information. The man, identified as Omri Goren, worked at Defense Minister Benny Gantz’ home as a

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — A group of 24 volunteers who took part in migrant rescue operations are on trial on the Greek island of Lesbos on smuggling-related charges in a case that has been strongly criticized by international human rights groups. The Greek and international volunteers include the Syrian-born competitive swimmer Sara Mardini. The volunteers,

By DARIA LITVINOVA and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — More than 400 Iraqis are seeking to fly home from Belarus, abandoning their hopes of reaching the European Union following more than a week of tensions at the bloc’s eastern border. Hundreds of migrants remain stuck there. A plane carrying an unknown number is