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Cuban entrepreneurs get business training from the US, and hope that Biden lifts sanctions

Cuban entrepreneurs get business training from the US, and hope that Biden lifts sanctions

HAVANA (AP) — Musicians Ana María Torres and María Carla Puga started making bracelets and necklaces at home in Cuba during the pandemic, and they now have a flourishing business.
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A vessel to accommodate asylum-seekers docks in UK as Parliament passes controversial migration bill

A vessel to accommodate asylum-seekers docks in UK as Parliament passes controversial migration bill

LONDON (AP) — A vessel that will house up to 500 asylum-seekers arrived Tuesday in England after Parliament passed its long-debated bill to curb migration.
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EU lawmakers dampen Turkey's hopes of reopening accession talks

EU lawmakers dampen Turkey's hopes of reopening accession talks

ISTANBUL (AP) — European lawmakers said Tuesday that Turkey needs to make a “drastic change of course” to get EU accession talks back on track, a week after the Turkish president linked reviving the process to accepting Sweden into NATO.
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Thousands died in the Philippines' 'war on drugs.' An international probe will now go ahead

Thousands died in the Philippines' 'war on drugs.' An international probe will now go ahead

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Tuesday that an investigation into the Philippines' deadly “war on drugs” can resume, rejecting Manila’s objections to the case going ahead at the global court.
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A UK woman jailed for obtaining tablets to end her pregnancy is to be released after appeal

A UK woman jailed for obtaining tablets to end her pregnancy is to be released after appeal

LONDON (AP) — A woman who was jailed for illegally obtaining abortion tablets to end her advanced pregnancy will be released from prison after Britain's Court of Appeal reduced her sentence Tuesday.
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Classes are canceled and public transport is halted as Typhoon Talim slams into southern China

Classes are canceled and public transport is halted as Typhoon Talim slams into southern China

BEIJING (AP) — Typhoon Talim skidded across the southern provinces of China on Tuesday, toppling trees and signboards before weakening to a tropical storm.
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A Dutch court convicts a man of assisting in at least 10 suicides by selling a deadly drug online

A Dutch court convicts a man of assisting in at least 10 suicides by selling a deadly drug online

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court convicted a man Tuesday of helping at least 10 people take their own lives by selling them deadly “suicide drugs” and instructions for their use, in what has been seen as the latest test case for Dutch righ
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Archaeologists in Louisiana save artifacts 12,000 years old from natural disasters and looters

Archaeologists in Louisiana save artifacts 12,000 years old from natural disasters and looters

VERNON PARISH, La.
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Climate envoy John Kerry meets with Chinese officials in a new US push to stabilize rocky relations

Climate envoy John Kerry meets with Chinese officials in a new US push to stabilize rocky relations

BEIJING (AP) — U.S.
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Kenya doomsday cult deaths top 400 as detectives exhume 12 more bodies, with the pastor in custody

Kenya doomsday cult deaths top 400 as detectives exhume 12 more bodies, with the pastor in custody

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies on Monday believed to be followers of a pastor who ordered them to fast to death in order to me
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