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Jury selected for federal trial over George Floyd’s killing

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A jury was picked Thursday for the federal trial of three Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's killing, with the judge stressing repeatedly that fellow Officer ...

Jan 20, 2022

4 Belarus officials charged with air piracy

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse...

Jan 20, 2022

Austrian parliament approves vaccine mandate for adults

VIENNA (AP) - Austria's parliament voted Thursday to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults from Feb. 1, the first of its kind in Europe. Lawmakers voted 137 to 33 in favor of the mandate, wh...

Jan 20, 2022

Jan. 6 committee requests interview with Ivanka Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its probe. The commit...

Jan 20, 2022

US: Swift, severe response if Russia sends troops to Ukraine

BERLIN (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a "swift, severe" response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends military forces into Ukraine. ...

Jan 20, 2022

19-year-old woman sets record for solo global flight

KORTRIJK, Belgium (AP) - The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgiu...

Jan 20, 2022

Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults former pope

BERLIN (AP) - A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. The law fi...

Jan 20, 2022

Bombing in Pakistan's 2nd city Lahore kills 2, wounds 26

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A powerful bomb went off in a crowded bazar in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore on Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding 26 others, police and rescue offic...

Jan 20, 2022

Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster

WASHINGTON (AP) - Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules t...

Jan 19, 2022

Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster

WASHINGTON (AP) - Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed Wednesday when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Sena...

Jan 19, 2022