Italian army to guard hospital after attacks on medical staff 

Rome — The Italian army will start guarding medical staff at a hospital in the southern Calabria region from Monday, after a string of violent attacks on doctors and nurses by enraged patients and relatives across Italy, according to local media repo[..]

Zelenskyy again urges West to allow strikes deep inside Russia

Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy once again Sunday urged Western allies to permit Kyiv to strike military targets deep inside Russia, especially air bases, after a deadly attack on Kharkiv

Boeing strike could last ‘a while’; workers confident of higher wages, union says

SEATTLE — A strike at Boeing could go on for a while as workers are confident they can get bigger wage increases and an improved pension, union leader Jon Holden said in an interview with National Public Radio on Saturday

US consumer watchdog finds school lunch fees taking toll on parents

new york — Single mother Rebecca Wood, 45, was already dealing with high medical bills in 2020 when she noticed she was being charged a $2

From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its food is longtime American habit

new york — It's a practice that's about as American as apple pie — accusing immigrant and minority communities of engaging in bizarre or disgusting behaviors when it comes to what and how they eat and drink, a kind of shorthand for saying they don't [..]

Bag of Cheetos has huge impact on national park ecosystem 

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — A bag of Cheetos gets dropped and left on the floor

US, China military leaders finish discussions on South China Sea, other issues  

BANGKOK — Military leaders from the U

'Trump Train' convoy surrounded Biden-Harris bus. Was it political violence?

Austin, Texas — A Texas jury will soon decide whether a convoy of supporters of then-President Donald Trump violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others on a Biden-Harris campaign bus when a so-called “Trump Train” boxe[..]

Emmys return with 'Shogun' and 'The Bear' leading the pack

Los Angeles — Hollywood will dole out the annual Emmy Awards, the highest honors in television, Sunday at a red-carpet ceremony where the historical drama Shogun and restaurant tale The Bear are poised to dominate the night

Bomb blast in southwest Pakistan kills two police officers

ISLAMABAD — A bomb explosion in Pakistan’s violence-hit southwestern Baluchistan province ripped through a police vehicle Saturday, killing at least two officers and wounding as many others

China’s retirement age, among youngest in world, set to rise

BEIJING — Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world's major economies, in an effort to address its shrinking population and aging work force

Dozens of Hong Kong journalists threatened in harassment campaign, says HKJA

BANGKOK — Dozens of Hong Kong journalists and their families have been harassed and intimidated in the past three months, according to the chair of a local press club

Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods

Taungoo, Myanmar — Myanmar's junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war

China's economy softens in August as Beijing grapples with lagging demand

BEIJING — China's economy softened in August, extending a slowdown in industrial activity and real estate prices as Beijing faces pressure to ramp up spending to stimulate demand

Severe flooding worsens humanitarian crisis in Nigeria's northeast

Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 30 people and affected more than 1 million others, according to national emergency officials