Year: 2021

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the euro’s notes and coins. The physical euro was introduced on January 1, 2002, three years after the euro was adopted for noncash purposes by fixing its exchange rate to legacy national

BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last year. Strife-torn Afghanistan was the most dangerous country in 2021. The federation said Friday that the figure represents one of the lowest death tolls in 30 years. Sixty-five deaths were recorded in

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank wielding a knife in an attempted stabbing attack. It said the alleged attacker exited a car at a junction on Friday and advanced toward a group

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The World Food Program has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur following recent attacks on its warehouses. The U.N. food agency’s decision Thursday is expected to affect around 2 million people who live in the area. All three of the agency’s warehouses in the