Category: National news from the Associated Press

LEIDEN, Netherlands (AP) — The pandemic is hitting students hard in Leiden, the Netherlands’ oldest university city. With the virus casting a…

BERLIN (AP) — Operators say the opening of Berlin’s new airport on Oct. 31 will happen without fanfare, a nod to the long delays and massive cost…

BEIRUT (AP) — Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn has made a new public appearance in Lebanon during which he launched an initiative with…

BEIJING (AP) — The departing U.S. ambassador in Beijing is defending a tough approach to China that has riled relations between the world’s two…

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rallied ahead of a U.S. presidential election debate. London and Frankfurt opened lower while…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The chief of Afghanistan’s peace negotiating team says that the time has come for his country and Pakistan to shun the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top official in the United Arab Emirates says his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in…

MITO, Japan (AP) — Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, or NTT, says it will spend $38 billion to buy out and take private its…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says a government official slain by North Korean sailors wanted to defect, concluding that the man, who had…

BEIRUT (AP) — An international aid group is warning that an additional 700,000 children in Syria face hunger because of the country’s badly…