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Italy, Albania and UAE ink clean energy cooperation deal

Jan. 15, 2025 06:44 AM EST

ROME (AP) — Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates signed a three-way clean energy cooperation deal Wednesday that calls for the Gulf country’s expertise to be put to use in Albania to produce solar, wind and other renewable energy, some of which would then be transferred to Italy via an...

World Economic Forum says Trump to take part virtually in Davos meeting, days after inauguration

Jan. 14, 2025 09:39 AM EST

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will take part virtually in the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos just days after his inauguration, the forum president said Tuesday. Børge Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister who heads the Geneva-based organization,...

Sailors greeted with tears and cheers as USS Cole returns to home port ahead of Christmas

Dec. 24, 2024 21:24 PM EST

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, after seven months at sea. The ship was greeted at Naval Station Norfolk on Monday with cheering from a crowd bundled in...

7 inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico

Dec. 20, 2024 15:05 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said. Four police officers and six other inmates were injured in the riot in the city of Villahermosa,...

Mexico arrests more than 100 local police officers for various abuses and offenses

Dec. 16, 2024 19:15 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in two states in southern Mexico arrested more than 100 local police officers Monday for various abuses and offenses, adding to the long list of police corruption scandals in the country. In the largest of the two incidents, 92 municipal police...