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Northern Star

UK man linked to virus spread thanks doctors for recovery

By DANICA KIRKA | February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A businessman from England who contracted the new virus from China and may have spread it through his wide travels thanked Britain's National Health Service after he recovered.Steve Walsh issued a statement Tuesday after being the focus...

Amid uncertainty, French wine industry puts itself on show

By THOMAS ADAMSON | February 11, 2020

PARIS (AP) — France's big wine industry, shaken by U.S. President Trump’s painful tariff hikes and the threat of climate change, is hoping to re-energize global interest in its products with a big trade fair in Paris.Two thousand winemakers - including...

NATO set for Iraq troop trainer-swap to mollify US demands

By LORNE COOK | February 11, 2020

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO countries are preparing to move more than 200 trainers working with the international force fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq to the military alliance’s own mission there helping to build up the Iraqi army in response to...

Buddhist monk recalls Thai soldier’s rampage at temple

By EMILY SCHMALL and PREEYAPA T. KHUNSONG | February 11, 2020

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A rogue soldier whose rampage left 29 people dead and dozens more injured in northeastern Thailand terrorized a Buddhist temple on his way to a shopping mall where he held people hostage in a nearly 16-hour siege.The...

Modi’s party faces stunning defeat in New Delhi elections

By ASHOK SHARMA | February 11, 2020

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was facing a stunning defeat by a regional party Tuesday in elections in the national capital that were seen as a referendum on Modi's policies, such as a new national...

Ukrainian leader seeks more independence, fires top aide

February 11, 2020

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president dismissed his chief of staff on Tuesday in a sign of intensifying rivalries in his entourage and a possible move to distance himself from a powerful billionaire.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration...

Daimler profits slump as auto industry comes under pressure

By DAVID McHUGH | February 11, 2020

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, saw profit slump in 2019 and turned in a loss for the fourth quarter, underlining the pressures on the auto industry from economic headwinds and the need to invest in electric cars to...

Feds seek 7 to 9 years in prison for Trump ally Roger Stone

By MICHAEL BALSAMO | February 11, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence President Donald Trump's confidant Roger Stone to serve between seven and nine years in prison after his conviction on witness tampering and obstruction charges.Stone, who is scheduled...

Global stock turn higher as investors watch virus impact

By JOE McDONALD | February 11, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets turned higher on Tuesday, at least temporarily shaking off jitters about China's virus outbreak.Indexes in London and Frankfurt advanced in Europe, while Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul closed higher. Tokyo fell for...

Africa shouldn’t need to beg for climate aid: Bank president

By ELIAS MESERET | February 11, 2020

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Africa shouldn’t have to beg for help in addressing climate change, the president of the African Development Bank said Tuesday, adding that polluting global powers “have to pay.”Akinwumi Adesina told The Associated...

Head of German Catholics says he’ll step down at end of term

February 11, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — The Roman Catholic cardinal who leads the German Bishops' Conference said Tuesday he plans to step down at the end of his term in March.Cardinal Reinhard Marx, 66, said in a letter to fellow bishops in Germany that he would not seek a...

UK economy flat-lines in Q4 amid Brexit and election clouds

By PAN PYLAS | February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Uncertainty related to Brexit seems to have weighed heavily on the British economy during the final quarter of 2019 as output flat-lined, official data showed Tuesday.In its first assessment of the quarter as a whole, the Office for National...