Month: November 2021

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares have advanced in Europe and Asia ahead of virtual talks between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The talks were to take place late Monday U.S. time. Benchmarks rose in Paris, Tokyo and Frankfurt but fell in Shanghai. Plans for stimulus in Japan overshadowed news that

BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster had been released from prison and handed over to him in Myanmar and would be soon on his way home via Qatar. Fenster, the

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has exploded on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul, wounding two people. Witnesses say the blast went off as a taxi passed by in the Kota-e Sangi district of western Kabul, injuring a man in the street and a

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell from “a great height” and one of them died. Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said. The children who were reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear agency has arrived in Japan to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. Japanese officials say the experts are to meet with Japanese officials and visit the Fukushima Daiichi plant

BERLIN (AP) — A nationwide lockdown has gone into effect in Austria for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19, and officials have signaled that further measures may follow amid soaring infection rates. The move, which took effect at midnight, prohibits people 12 and older who haven’t been vaccinated or recently recovered from leaving their

LONDON (AP) — British police and intelligence services are working to determine whether a taxi explosion outside a Liverpool hospital was a deliberate attack. The city’s mayor said the cab driver’s quick actions averted a potential disaster. The male occupant of a taxi was killed and its driver injured when the vehicle burst into flames

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to expand sanctions against Belarus to include airlines, travel agents and individuals accused of helping to lure migrants to Europe as part of a “hybrid attack” against the bloc by President Alexander Lukashenko. The 27-country EU has already slapped a series of sanctions on Lukashenko and senior

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press CHIOS, Greece (AP) — Among the inmates of Chios prison, nestled in the warren of narrow streets of this Greek island’s main town, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third. But these are

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has handled 20% more passenger traffic in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year. The airport’s chief executive said Monday that signals cautious optimism for the ravaged aviation industry even

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A groom at his wedding, a construction worker and father of four, an ambulance driver: All three are among the thousands who have died in Ethiopia’s brutal year-long war that began in Tigray. The death toll is one of the biggest unknowns of the war. But