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Sweden plans to step up border controls as security situation worsens during Quran burning crisis 08/01/2023 02:38pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� Sweden plans to step up border controls and identity checks at crossing points as its security situation deteriorates during a Quran burning crisis that has shaken the country as well as neighboring Denmark in recent weeks. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the measure i Editorial Roundup: United States 08/01/2023 02:33pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 29 The Washington Post on the ���humming��� U.S. economy For the first time in a while, the nation ��� and its policymakers ��� can step out of crisis mode. This is an ideal moment for President Biden and Congress not just to take Niger will face sanctions as democracy falls apart, adding to woes for more than 25 million people 07/31/2023 10:45pm • NIAMEY, Niger (AP) ��� Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of the West's last democratic partners against West African extremists, and families in one of the world���s poorest nations could pay the price. In the capital of Niger, many people live How to Change Your Address With Social Security 07/31/2023 08:00pm • If you receive Social Security income, you may be concerned about payments continuing if you move to a new location. A change of address notification is required for those who receive Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income or Medicare. If you don't receive benefits yet, you don't nee 19 Part-Time Retirement Jobs That Pay Well 07/31/2023 08:00pm • Taking on a part-time retirement job doesn't have to mean low pay and uninteresting work. Many older workers perform important and essential jobs while maintaining a flexible schedule. With the right education and credentials, you might be able to transition into a lucrative and rewarding part-time Nigerian state relaxes curfew after warehouses and shops are looted 07/31/2023 06:55pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Authorities in northeastern Nigeria���s Adamawa state have relaxed a curfew announced in response to what they said was widespread looting of shops and warehouses. The 24-hour curfew has been eased to last only from dusk to dawn, Adamawa Gov. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said, accor Senegal dissolves opposition party, restricts internet ahead of next year's presidential election 07/31/2023 06:23pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Senegal's government Monday dissolved a major opposition party hours after the party's popular president and opposition leader said a judge ordered his arrest. Ousmane Sonko, a towering opposition figure widely supported by Senegal's youth, was in prison Monday as he awaited Mar-a-Lago manager De Oliveira makes his first court appearance in Trump's classified documents case 07/31/2023 05:27pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� The property manager of Donald Trump���s Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance on Monday facing charges in the classified documents case against the former president, but he did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent him. Carlos De RFK Jr. says he���s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It���s one of many inconsistencies 07/31/2023 10:34am • Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic because of his strident opposition to vaccines. Yet, he insists he���s not anti-vaccine. He has associated with influential people on the far right ��� including Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and M Suicide bomber at political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people, wounds nearly 200 07/31/2023 01:23am • KHAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. Skepticism prevails as Chinese leaders promise to back private businesses to spur slowing economy 07/30/2023 11:29pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China���s post-COVID rebound. Home sales are 30-40% below last year's depressed level after the economy barely grew in the latest quarter, according to the owner, who would give only his surname, Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning 07/30/2023 06:55pm • DENVER (AP) ��� As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation's poorest neighborhoods, doesn't have air conditioning. The 68-ye French embassy in Niger is attacked as protesters waving Russian flags march through capital 07/30/2023 03:48pm • NIAMEY, Niger (AP) ��� Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing France, the country's former colonial power, waving Russian flags, and setting a door at the French Embassy ablaze on Sunday before the army broke up the crowd. Demonstrators in Guatemala presidential candidate rushes to expand base beyond urban youth 07/30/2023 12:01am • SANTA MARIA DE JESUS, Guatemala (AP) ��� Presidential candidate Bernardo Ar��valo stood before a few hundred residents of this small Indigenous community on the slopes of the Agua Volcano and told them they could be the seeds of a brighter, more corruption-free spring in Guatemala. The metaphor fits Blinken says US economic support for Niger is at risk as military takeover threatens stability 07/29/2023 05:31pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover that deposed the president this week threatens the economic support provided by Washington to the African nation, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Saturday. Members of the Niger military announ