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Biden pressed on emissions goal as climate summit nears

WASHINGTON - When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that w...

Apr 19, 2021

Japan asks Myanmar junta to release arrested journalist

TOKYO - Japan's government said Monday it is asking Myanmar to release a Japanese journalist who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day. Chief Cabinet Secretary...

Apr 19, 2021

Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages

LAHORE, Pakistan - An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the...

Apr 19, 2021

EU foreign ministers talk amid uproar over Ukraine, Navalny

BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers on Monday were assessing the bloc's strategy toward Russia in the wake of the military buildup on Ukraine's borders and amid the weakening health of impriso...

Apr 19, 2021

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny to be moved to a hospital

MOSCOW - The Russian state penitentiary service said Monday a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a ...

Apr 19, 2021

Sheriff: 3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Wisconsin tavern

KENOSHA, Wis. - Three people were killed and two were seriously wounded in a shooting at a busy tavern in southeastern Wisconsin early Sunday, sheriff's officials said. Kenosha County Sheriff David Be...

Apr 18, 2021

Some Jan. 6 defendants try to use journalism as riot defence

The Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January created a trove of self-incriminating evidence, thoroughly documenting their actions and words in videos and social media posts. Now some o...

Apr 18, 2021

Germany promises help for local staff amid Afghan withdrawal

BERLIN - The German defence minister says she wants to help bring some Afghan employees of her country's military to Germany as it prepares to leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years. NATO allies incl...

Apr 18, 2021

Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up his country's inoculation drive, which lags behind many...

Apr 18, 2021

Refugees win rare victory in Serbia landmark pushback ruling

BELGRADE, Serbia - Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Crammed into a police van, the refugees from Afghan...

Apr 18, 2021