By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday is expected to release a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs. Worker shortages have been a frustration for some employers,
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has cast doubt on the prospect of the European Union beginning negotiations any time soon for Ukraine to join the bloc. Speaking to state radio on Friday, Orbán said the EU will have to answer “very long and difficult questions until
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb exploded near a mosque at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 35 people and injuring nearly 70 others, police and a government official said. The bombing occurred in Mastung, a district in
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un hombre recibió un disparo este jueves durante una protesta contra los planes de reinstalar la estatua de un polémico conquistador español en el norte de Nuevo México, informó la policía. Manifestantes se reunieron en la ciudad de Española, donde las autoridades habían planeado reinstalar una estatua de Juan de
Continue ReadingBy LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Bad weather has eased in central Greece, leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region that has been battered by two powerful storms in less than a month. On Friday, municipal workers were handing out bottled water in the storm-hit city
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CNN By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo and Yasmin Coles, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippine defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway. Bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations, parts
Continue Reading By Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright, Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo and Yasmin Coles, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippine defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb exploded near a mosque at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 50 others, police and a government official said. The bombing occurred in Mastung, a district
Continue Reading By Dalal Mawad and Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — It’s 6.30 a.m. on a late summer morning in Paris. Amid the rumbling coming from the Stalingrad Métro station, in the northeast of the French capital, hundreds of migrants, mostly men, sleep crammed under an overpass. Some rest on pieces of cardboard and old mattresses
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population has fled to Armenia as the region’s separatist government said it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic inside Azerbaijan will cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for independence. By Friday morning 84,770 people had
Continue ReadingBy ZANA CIMILI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo police have raided several locations in a tense Serb-dominated area in the north of the country where weekend clashes left four people dead and further strained relations with Serbia. Police said Friday they were conducting searches on five locations in three municipalities in northern Kosovo.
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard dismantled a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spoke publicly for the first
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border. The project will remove four dams on the Klamath River. Work has already begun on removing the smallest of the four dams. The other three will come down next year. The
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border. The project will remove four dams on the Klamath River. Work has already begun on removing the smallest of the four dams. The other three will come down next year. The
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police and a government official in Pakistan say a powerful bomb has exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others. The bombing occurred in Mastung, a district in Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, a government administrator said. The
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The U.S. military has not responded to repeated
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy (CNN) — Shipping containers from China are “piling up” in Russia amid a surge of Chinese goods flowing into the country as trade soars, a new analysis has found. Russia has an extra 150,000 shipping containers that importers are scrambling to return to China, logistics platform Container xChange said in a report
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed in a meeting with Russia’s president to expand their relationship in energy, trade and other areas, notably oil. Kiir and President Vladimir Putin also discussed political and security matters in South Sudan, which is preparing for its
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Many millions of Chinese tourists are expected to travel within their country, splurging on hotels, tours, attractions and meals in a boost to the economy during the 8-day autumn holiday period that began Friday. This year’s holiday began with the Mid-Autumn Festival on Friday and also
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