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Halting 737 Max production will hit suppliers, airlines

As Boeing prepares to shutter much of a huge factory near Seattle that builds the grounded 737 Max jet, the economic hit is reverberating across the U...
22:40 17 December 2021

Giuliani brags about forcing out Trump’s Ukraine ambassador

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, is now openly admitting that he pushed President Donald Trump to dismiss the former amb...
21:12 17 December 2021

Trump says Guatemala is helping stem asylum seekers in US

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump thanked Guatemala's president Tuesday for becoming a more active partner in helping stem a tide of migrants seekin...
20:49 17 December 2021

Die-hard Venezuelan soccer fans defy political divide

Venezuela is the only South American country where baseball and not soccer is the No. 1 sport. Still, a group of fans calling themselves the “Red Demo...
17:44 17 December 2021

Leaders of Russia, Turkey discuss fighting in Libya

MOSCOW — The leaders of Russia and Turkey discussed the fighting in Libya in a phone call Tuesday, the Kremlin said.
16:05 17 December 2021

France on strike: Power cuts, schools shut, no Eiffel Tower

PARIS — French union activists cut electricity to nearly 100,000 homes or offices. Eiffel Tower staff walked off the job. Even Paris opera workers joi...
15:55 17 December 2021

US deports murder parolee to Germany; he says he’s innocent

BERLIN — A German diplomat's son who served more than 33 years in prison for a double murder in Virginia that he has steadfastly maintained he didn't ...
15:09 17 December 2021

UK’s Johnson seeks to rule out Brexit trade pact delay

LONDON — Buoyed by a Conservative majority in Parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signaled Tuesday he won’t soften his Brexit stance, rul...
12:39 17 December 2021

AP Photos: Unexploded land mines awful legacy of Afghan wars

KABUL, Afghanistan — When 9-year-old Eimal stepped out of his home in the Panjshir Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, he had no way of knowing that h...
9:14 17 December 2021

Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the...
8:51 17 December 2021

Protesters in Arab world’s newest uprisings face a long haul

BAGHDAD — Abbas Ali spends most of his free time camped out in Tahrir Square — the epicenter of Iraq's anti-government protests — going home only at 3...
5:45 17 December 2021

Documents sought in case of Saudi student facing gun charge

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Saudi Arabian student arrested on a federal firearms charge the day before he was scheduled to graduate from the University of N...
0:33 17 December 2021

3rd night of clashes as Lebanon puts off talks on new PM

BEIRUT — A group of men clashed with security forces in Beirut for the third consecutive night Monday, hours after Lebanon's president postponed talks...
23:27 16 December 2021

Convicted in massacre, Suriname’s leader hangs on tight

PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Zahara Kamperveen laid white lilies before a glossy black plaque, then gently touched the name of her grandfather, a radio-stat...
18:17 16 December 2021

Mexico reaffirms rejection of US labor inspectors

MEXICO CITY — Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Monday he does not feel tricked by the insertion of a provision for labor inspectors in le...
16:33 16 December 2021

Patients rally in Ecuador for legal use of medical cannabis

QUITO, Ecuador — Unrelenting pain in her hips and weeks of insomnia left Nelly Valbuena desperate for relief from her metastatic breast cancer.
15:42 16 December 2021

Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus am...
14:30 16 December 2021

WWII allies, Germany mark 75 yrs since Battle of the Bulge

BASTOGNE, Belgium — Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in Wor...
14:12 16 December 2021

French pension reform architect resigns as strikes drag on

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's government suffered a blow Monday when the key architect of the pension overhaul resigned over alleged conf...
13:13 16 December 2021

China’s Xi says HK had its grimmest year since handover

BEIJING — Hong Kong has faced its "grimmest and most complex year” since the former British colony was returned to China, President Xi Jinping said Mo...
10:31 16 December 2021

7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue

NEW DELHI — Days after an alleged gang-rape victim was set on fire, a note was left at the family home of an 18-year-old set to testify in her own cas...
7:48 16 December 2021

US says it won’t accept North Korea-set nuclear deadline

SEOUL, South Korea — A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in sta...
6:12 16 December 2021

A tattoo at a time, Afghan woman takes on society’s taboos

KABUL, Afghanistan — A female tattoo artist, a rarity in ultra-conservative Afghanistan, is taking a big risk with every customer she takes on.
5:58 16 December 2021

Sackler-owned opioid maker pushes overdose treatment abroad

The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepar...
3:06 16 December 2021

Disappointment as marathon climate talks end with slim deal

MADRID — Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls ...
18:21 15 December 2021

75 years on, Battle of the Bulge memories bond people

THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium — As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshif...
16:12 15 December 2021

Anna Karina, the icon of French New Wave cinema, dies at 79

PARIS — Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was ...
15:56 15 December 2021

No letup for UK lawmakers: Johnson presses ahead with Brexit

LONDON — There will be no letup for U.K. lawmakers worn out after Britain’s bruising election campaign. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to begin “...
14:57 15 December 2021

Strong quake kills 1, collapses building in Philippines

DAVAO, Philippines — A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least one person and causing a three-story building to ...
10:09 15 December 2021

White gold: Cyprus’ halloumi cheese entangled in politics

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Dairy farmers on Cyprus refer to halloumi as “white gold.” The salty, rubbery cheese made from goats' and sheep's milk and prized fo...
8:15 15 December 2021