Month: November 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s central bank governor says he asked an auditing firm to look into transactions and investments and that contrary to media reports, the results showed no public money has been misused. Riad Salameh, once praised as the guardian of Lebanon’s financial stability, is under scrutiny during the small country’s economic meltdown. He

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish government official says migrants camped on the Belarusian side of Poland’s eastern border are being taken away by bus, in a sign a tense standoff could be easing. Poland’s Border Guard posted on Twitter a video showing migrants with bags and backpacks being directed

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A pro-military minister in Sudan says time is running out for the country’s deposed prime minister to agree to take a post in a military-led government after top generals seized power last month. Gibreil Ibrahim, the finance minister of the deposed government, tells

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United Kingdom surged at the fastest rate in nearly a decade in October amid soaring energy costs. The development Wednesday has cemented market expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates next month. The Office for National Statistics says inflation accelerated

By MIKE SCHMIDT Edmunds For years the Honda Odyssey sat atop the pile as Edmunds’ top-rated minivan. It defined what a good minivan should be. Then 2021 came and every key minivan brand was updated. One was all new: the Kia Carnival. Carnival used the Odyssey formula and added its own personality. So how does

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus deaths in Europe rose 5% in the last week, making it the only region in the world where COVID-19 deaths increased. In its weekly report on the pandemic, WHO said COVID-19 deaths in all regions other than Europe remained stable or declined, and totaled 50,000 worldwide

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A man who killed his estranged wife and terrorized their family is set to become the first person executed in in Mississippi since 2012. The state is planning a lethal injection Wednesday evening for 50-year-old David Neal Cox at the state penitentiary in Parchman. He

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is acquiring a new drilling ship to search for natural gas in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, expanding its existing fleet of drilling vessels to four. Erdogan on Wednesday described the new ship as a state of the art “seventh-generation” vessel. Last

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — India’s startup Akasa Air has announced it’s choosing CFM International’s LEAP-1B turbofan engines to power its newly bought Boeing 737 Max jets, a deal valued at some $4.5 billion. The companies on Wednesday struck the agreement, which includes spare engines and long-term servicing, at the Dubai Air Show, the

By KIYOKO METZLER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says it believes Iran has further increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in breach of a 2015 accord with world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency told member nations in a confidential quarterly report Wednesday that Iran has an estimated stock