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Pete Buttigieg's star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts toward him

Monday, 15 November 2021, 07:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact...

Italian Coast Guard rescues 550 migrants from stormy seas

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 19:06 Last update: about 6 years ago

The Italian Coast Guard on Sunday safely brought to shore more than 550 migrants, many of them young men or boys from Egypt, from storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of...

Gaddafi's son announces candidacy for president of Libya

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 19:04 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election agency said. Seif...

Updated: Queen sprains back, misses Remembrance Sunday event

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 12:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and did not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead, Buckingham Palace said Sunday. ...

Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 07:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about...

EU authorizes 2 medicines for people at risk of severe Covid-19

Friday, 12 November 2021, 06:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two new medicines against the coronavirus for people at risk of severe disease. In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug...

South Africa's last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies

Thursday, 11 November 2021, 12:01 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age...

Man with knife threatens passers-by in Norway, is shot dead

Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A man reportedly armed with a knife threatened passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Tuesday, before being shot dead by police, officials said. Norwegian media published...

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