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Immaculate Conception school principal Michael Kish, who is retiring after 50 years of being an educator, poses at the school in Columbia, Ill.. (Derik Holtmann]/Belleville News-Democrat via AP)
Educator retires after 50 years at southwest Illinois school

By Teri Maddox Jun. 05, 2021 01:01 AM EDT

Points cover the surface of a plaster model from a sculpture by Chas Fagan of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel in the Human Rights Porch at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The marks are made with a pointing machine, a measuring tool to accurately copy plaster sculpture models into stone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral

By Ashraf Khalil Apr. 28, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

Albania signs 104 million-euro deal to build new airport

By Llazar Semini Apr. 20, 2021 08:13 AM EDT
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania on Tuesday signed a contract with a Swiss-based consortium to build a 104 million-euro ($125 million) new international airport....

Sister Mary Carol Kardell, of the Felician Sisters of North America, sits beside a Bible, rosary beads and goggles during morning Mass at St. Anne Home in Greensburg, Pa., on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Last October the nuns lost one of their own, Sister Mary Evelyn Labik, to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
'How many of us will be left?' Catholic nuns face loss, pain

By Matt Sedensky Apr. 09, 2021 07:11 AM EDT

Sister Mary Carol Kardell, of the Felician Sisters of North America, sits beside a Bible, rosary beads and goggles during morning Mass at St. Anne Home in Greensburg, Pa., on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Last October the nuns lost one of their own, Sister Mary Evelyn Labik, to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
'How many of us will be left?' Catholic nuns face loss, pain

By Matt Sedensky Apr. 09, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

Albanian parties break some virus rules to launch campaigns

By Llazar Semini Mar. 25, 2021 04:11 PM EDT
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s opposition on Thursday defied virus restrictions to hold a rally in the capital of Tirana to launch its electoral campaign. ...

Albania to build 2nd international airport to boost tourism

By Llazar Semini Mar. 05, 2021 10:49 AM EST
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's government on Friday selected a Swiss-based corporation to build a 104-million-euro ($125 million) new international airport...

Election commission employees count casted ballots after the polls closed in parliamentary elections in capital Pristina, Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in an early parliamentary election to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Leftist opposition party heads to victory in Kosovo election

By Llazar Semini Feb. 14, 2021 01:02 AM EST

A barber wearing a protective suits and face shield to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus concentrates as he cuts the hair of a man at a barbershop in Manila, Philippines on Monday, June 8, 2020. Barbershops and beauty salons are now allowed to operate under strict health measures as the lockdown continues to ease in the capital. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
The Latest: Pakistan sees more than 100 virus deaths in day

By The Associated Press Jun. 08, 2020 12:48 AM EDT

Israeli software developer Itamar Lev poses for a photograph at his house in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba, Thursday, June 4, 2020. At first, when the coronavirus broke out, Lev was told to work from home. Then his salary was slashed 20%, his dining allowance was taken away and a long-term savings fund frozen. That's the harsh truth facing workers laid off around the world, from software companies in Israel to restaurants in Thailand and car factories in France, whose livelihoods fell victim to a virus-driven recession that's accelerating decline in struggling industries and upheaval across the global workforce. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Despite global reopening push, some jobs are gone for good

By Angela Charlton And Tassanee Vejpongsa Jun. 05, 2020 03:04 AM EDT