Month: November 2021

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has barred entry to travelers from 10 African countries, citing the threat from the new omicron coronavirus variant. The move, announced in a Health Ministry statement issued late Monday, came just two weeks after Cambodia reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers. The Health Ministry said the entry ban

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have arrested a prominent member of an opposition party over accusations that he engaged in “political and military espionage.” Anadolu Agency said late Monday that a court in Ankara ordered Metin Gurcan, a retired army officer and founding member of the opposition Democracy and Progress

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Frankfurt is expected to issue a verdict Tuesday in the trial of a former Islamic State member accused of killing a 5-year-old girl he had purchased as a slave, by chaining her in the hot sun. The defendant, an Iraqi citizen, is the first person to go on trial

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Human Rights Watch says that Afghanistan’s Taliban fighters have killed or forcibly “disappeared” more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in mid-August. A new report from the group points to continuing retaliation against members of the former armed forces, despite an announced amnesty.

PARIS (AP) — Japan and France confirmed their first cases of the new variant of the coronavirus on Tuesday. Countries around the world are scrambling to close their doors or find ways to limit its spread while scientists study how damaging it might be. The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A fire in part of a building occupied by squatters in central Barcelona has killed four members of the same family, including two children aged 1 and 3, in the early hours of Tuesday. Firefighters managed to put out the fire after rescuing four more people, who

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon. She is the first Black woman to receive the nation’s highest honor. French President Emmanuel Macron presided over an elaborate ceremony Tuesday at the domed Pantheon monument in

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis is heading back to the Greek island of Lesbos to meet migrants and asylum-seekers for the second time in five years. It comes as European governments are hardening borders and policies to keep migrants out, but as religious faiths seeks broader

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and The Weeknd have all won honors at a revamped Apple Music Awards, which has grown larger to encompass global music patterns. Rodrigo was named breakthrough artist of the year, her “Sour” was named best album of the year and her “drivers