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Bids arrive ahead of Chelsea sale deadline day
LONDON (AP): For sale: One Premier League club. Condition: Distressed. Value: $2 billion-plus. Deadline day is today for bids to be submitted to buy Chelsea and end the 19-year ownership of Russian…
Zelenskyy pleads for more US help in speech to…
WASHINGTON (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned the memory of Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terror attacks on Wednesday in an impassioned video plea to Congress to send more help…
UK easing COVID-19 testing, monitoring despite…
LONDON (AP) — After dropping nearly all coronavirus restrictions last month, Britain is now ending some of its most widespread COVID-19 testing and monitoring programmes, a move some scientists fear…
Businesses shut as officials widen COVID-19…
Source: BBC News Multinational companies have halted some operations as China widens its Covid lockdowns - among its biggest since the start of the pandemic. Tens of millions of people across the…
UK to end all COVID-19 travel rules ahead of…
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government said Monday all remaining coronavirus measures for travellers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement that unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19…
President Tsai highlights progress in empowering…
President Tsai Ing-wen addressing an event with female members of the foreign diplomatic corps on March 14 said that the government is committed to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment…
Russians keep pressure on Mariupol after hospital…
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP): Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation…
US extends mask rule for travel while weighing new…
WASHINGTON (AP): Federal officials are extending the requirement for masks on planes and public transportation for one more month – through mid-April – while taking steps that could lead to lifting…
US Supreme Court won’t review decision that freed…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The United States Supreme Court announced Monday without comment that it would not review Bill Cosby's sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal…
Most of the world lines up against Moscow
KYIV (AP): Most of the world lined up against Moscow in the United Nations on Wednesday to demand that it withdraws from Ukraine, as invading Russian forces renewed their bombardment of the country’s…
Talks yield no breakthrough as Russians close in
KYIV (AP): The first talks aimed at stopping the fighting between Ukraine and Russia ended on Monday with no agreement except to keep talking, while an increasingly isolated Moscow ran into…
Scientists cautious as England set to end COVID…
LONDON (AP) — Scientists warned the British government on Monday not to weaken the country's ability to monitor and track the coronavirus after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends the requirement for…
UK lifts all testing requirements for vaccinated…
LONDON (AP) — Vaccinated travellers can enter Britain without taking any coronavirus tests starting Friday after the government scrapped one of the final restrictions imposed over the past two years…
UK’s Johnson signals early end to COVID isolation…
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested Wednesday that laws requiring people in England with COVID-19 to self-isolate will be lifted within weeks, bringing an end to all domestic…
IRS-CI reminds taxpayers living abroad of filing…
WASHINGTON – Tax season takes place Jan. 24 through April 18, and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) reminds U.S. citizens and green card holders living abroad to follow the same rules for paying…