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Published:Saturday | June 18, 2022 | 2:55 PM

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain. Huge crowds flooded into the British capital for the rally to demand that the government do more to help...

Published:Saturday | June 18, 2022 | 1:36 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — United States health advisers on Saturday recommended COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots. The advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Published:Saturday | June 18, 2022 | 10:41 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Gatwick Airport has slashed its number of daily flights over the summer because of staff shortages as the global aviation industry struggles to meet a resurgent demand for travel. London's second-busiest...

Published:Saturday | June 18, 2022 | 10:36 AM

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — At least 18 people have died as massive floods ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links, authorities said Saturday. In India's Assam state, at...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 4:53 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration authorities said Thursday they found a veritable United Nations of migrants aboard a freight truck. Mexico's National Immigration Institute said the truck was carrying 366 migrants, including people...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 10:34 AM

United States regulators on Friday authorised the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration's action follows its advisory panel's unanimous...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 12:06 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): At least 35 teenage girls held captive and forced to work in a prostitution ring in southeastern Nigeria have been rescued after police raided a hotel where they were being held, police said. The girls between the ages of 14...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 12:06 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): The caskets were rolled in one by one, lined up in front of friends and family who had no idea that many of the 11 Haitian girls and women they were preparing to bury had decided to flee their country. They were teenagers, mothers,...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 12:06 AM

CAIRO (AP): Yemen’s Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s grinding civil war, despite an agreement with the United Nations in April to halt the practice, Houthi officials, aid workers and...

Published:Friday | June 17, 2022 | 12:06 AM

KYIV (AP): Four European leaders expressed their support for Ukraine on Thursday while meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing to back Kyiv’s candidacy to eventually join the European Union (EU) and offering more weapons to fend off...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2022 | 9:57 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 35 teenage girls held captive and forced to work in a prostitution ring in southeastern Nigeria have been rescued after police raided a hotel where they were being held, police said. The girls between the ages...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2022 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): The British government vowed Wednesday to organize more flights to deport asylum-seekers from around the world to Rwanda, after a last-minute court judgment grounded the first plane due to take off under the contentious policy. Home...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2022 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): The World Health Organization (WHO) said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The move could result in the UN health agency distributing scarce vaccine...

Published:Thursday | June 16, 2022 | 12:10 AM

BERLIN (AP): Russia’s Gazprom announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row Wednesday, creating further energy turmoil for Europe as it tries to reduce its extensive use of Russian oil and...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2022 | 4:49 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union sued Britain on Wednesday over its move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago, ratcheting up tensions between the major economic partners. Earlier this week, British...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2022 | 9:25 AM

LONDON (AP) — The British government vowed Wednesday to organise more flights to deport asylum-seekers from around the world to Rwanda after a last-minute court judgment grounded the first plane due to take off under the contentious...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2022 | 12:10 AM

PARIS (AP): President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to give him a “strong majority” on Sunday in the second, decisive round of nationwide parliamentary elections. Macron appeared under pressure as he spoke on Tuesday from the tarmac of a Paris...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2022 | 12:10 AM

QUITO, (AP): Authorities in Ecuador arrested the leader of a national Indigenous group on Tuesday, alleging that he was responsible for violence during anti-government protests. Leónidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous...

Published:Wednesday | June 15, 2022 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): With the first plane set to take off Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson emphatically defended Britain’s plan to send asylum-seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda, despite an outcry from the United Nations, human rights...

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 4:24 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's highest court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general's civil investigation into his business practices, clearing the way...

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 9:15 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear...

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 9:10 AM

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — With jokes, upbeat Caribbean music and vacation scenes of sun-kissed beaches and palm trees, Haitian influencers on YouTube and TikTok advertise charter flights to South America. But they are not targeting tourists....

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 12:10 AM

HONG KONG (AP): Chinese authorities arrested nine people on suspicion of violently assaulting several women at a restaurant, after surveillance footage of the attack sparked widespread outrage. Footage from a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan in...

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 12:10 AM

STOCKHOLM (AP): A Swedish arms watchdog says the world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons are expected to increase in the coming years, reversing a decline seen since the end of the Cold War. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or...

Published:Tuesday | June 14, 2022 | 12:10 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s president slammed NATO’s policy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Monday, calling it “immoral”. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not mention NATO or the United States by name, but his comments were the latest...

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