Category: National news from the Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has finalized a deal with Pfizer to secure 2.1 million doses of the vaccine against coronavirus amid a surge in infections in…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — State TV says Iran has urged the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to avoid publishing “unnecessary” details on Tehran’s…

After more than 1,400 days of Donald Trump’s presidency — after two bitter elections, two impeachments, more than 26,000 presidential tweets…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities say a cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Sunday, leaving at least three people dead. The…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Faced with a rapid resurgence of COVID-19 overwhelming the country’s hospitals and driven by a more infectious virus variant,…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it plans to offer a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to every adult by September as the nation’s health…

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese doctors’ union says the death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in West Darfur province has…

MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the…

BERLIN (AP) — Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has departed from Germany to return to Russia, where he faces the threat of arrest. Navalny’s…

New research suggests that some beetles are adept at hiding their food from competitors. The beetle is called a burying beetle because it digs a hole…