BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mixed on Monday after U.S. stocks fell sharply as reports showed the economy may be suffering as consumers and businesses fret over President Donald Trump鈥檚 policies. Markets were closed in Tokyo for a holiday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.6% to 23,348.82 and the Shanghai Composite index edged […]
ROME (AP) 鈥� An American Airlines flight en route from New York to New Delhi turned around over the Caspian Sea on Sunday and landed in Rome, a spokesman from with Leonardo da Vinci Airport said. The airport official did not give the reason for the change in flight plans, adding that all the due […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) 鈥� Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday he has instructed the military to prepare to remain in some of the occupied West Bank鈥檚 urban refugee camps 鈥渇or the coming year.鈥� The comments by Katz come as Israel is intensifying an offensive in the Palestinian territory and as the ceasefire that […]
ROME (AP) 鈥� Pope Francis rested during a peaceful night following a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican said Sunday. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni’s one-line statement didn’t mention if Francis was up or eating breakfast. The brief update came after doctors said the 88-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a […]
LONDON (AP) 鈥� The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia. There is an element of good cop, bad cop in efforts by U.K. Prime […]
BERLIN (AP) 鈥� German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States. The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to […]
LIMA, Peru (AP) 鈥� The collapse of a food court roof at a shopping mall in northwestern Peru killed six people and left at least 78 others injured, the defense minister said Saturday. The heavy iron roof at the Real Plaza Trujillo shopping mall, a city in the La Libertad region, fell Friday night on […]
Israel launched airstrikes early Saturday on what it described as military targets in Iran in聽retaliation for a ballistic missile聽assault Oct. 1, officials said.
