Month: October 2021

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Quinton de Kock has refused to play in a T20 World Cup game against the West Indies in protest after Cricket South Africa ordered its players to take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. CSA issued a statement before

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Amsterdam appeals court has ruled that a trove of historical treasures from Crimea that have been stored for years at a Dutch museum must be given to Ukraine. The court said that the artifacts are “part of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian

LONDON (AP) — London’s police force has apologized to the family of two murdered sisters and said its initial response to the crime was “below the standard that it should have been.” The mother of the two women dismissed the apology Tuesday as too little, too late, saying the Metropolitan Police force had not taken

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Ordinary Americans and the nation’s airlines are combining to donate miles and cash to help Afghan refugees resettle in the United States. Organizers said Tuesday they have raised enough donations pay for 40,000 flights, but they’re hoping to nearly double that amount. The flights generally carry Afghans from temporary

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state television says a cyberattack has targeted gas stations across the Islamic Republic. The announcement read on air comes after long lines formed at stations in Tehran and elsewhere Tuesday. State TV quoted an official with Iran’s National Security Council confirming the attack.

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The daily number of COVID-19 deaths in Russia has reached another high amid a surge in infections that forced the Kremlin to order most Russians to stay off work starting this week. Sluggish vaccination rates have allowed the coronavirus to spread quickly across Eastern Europe. Ukraine and

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU ministers have held emergency talks focused on energy that didn’t produce immediate results amid divisions between the 27 member countries on how to tackle a crunch that has seen consumers’ bills skyrocket this year. Most member states agree tax cuts, state aid and other measures put

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries. African officials call it a breakthrough on the world’s least vaccinated continent. Tuesday’s announcement says Moderna is prepared to deliver the first 15 million doses by the end

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) —  Coronavirus infections and hospitalizations have shot up in Belgium, pushing the government to reimpose some pandemic restrictions that it only relaxed a few weeks ago and expand a nationwide use of the COVID-19 pass. Daily infections in the European Union nation of 11 million increased 75% to

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and China are urging the international community to send humanitarian help to Afghanistan, where people are facing shortages of food and medicine in the shadow of winter. A government statement said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Afghanistan by phone. The two leaders

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say three girls and a woman have died after a dinghy transporting migrants from the coast of Turkey sank near the Greek island of Chios. Greece’s coast guard said another 22 people were rescued and at least person from the boat was missing on

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The office of Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok says he and his wife, who were detained after the military seized power, were allowed to return to their home in Khartoum. Their release came after the international community condemned the coup and called on the military to release

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ biggest pension fund says it will stop investing in companies that produce fossil fuels. The ABP fund said Tuesday that the move was prompted by recent climate reports by the United Nations and International Energy Agency.  Members of the fund have long called

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel took a step closer to political retirement Tuesday after receiving her formal dismissal certificate from the post of chancellor after 16 years in office. She will lead a caretaker government until her successor is sworn in. Earlier, she attended the opening session

BEIJING (AP) — Police in Wuhan, China, say they are searching for a man who killed seven people then jumped off a bridge in the city. Local reports say the suspect killed a man who was temporarily serving as the Communist Party secretary in a village near Wuhan. The party official’s wife, daughter-in-law and two

By MARCY GORDON and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have put executives of YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive. The executives were asked what they’re doing to ensure young users’ safety amid concern over the platforms’ potential harm to children. The senators also they reached out to the tech executives

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are lower after Australia reported unexpectedly strong inflation, highlighting global pressures for prices to rise. Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong retreated. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.2% following solid earnings reports from some major companies. Australia’s government reported its underlying consumer

By SARAH EL DEEB and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For eight months, a relatively obscure Lebanese judge has been quietly investigating one of the world’s worst non-nuclear explosions with only four assistants — and a lot of powerful detractors trying to block him. Tarek Bitar has now become a household name in

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government says it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands of workers who have close contact with their customers — including those at restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons. The changes will mean that about 40% of all New Zealand workers will

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli Foreign Ministry official says the country is sending an envoy to Washington amid a deepening rift with the Biden administration over six outlawed Palestinian rights groups. Israel last week designated the prominent Palestinian groups as terrorist organizations. The move sparked international criticism and

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has convicted a second person under its sweeping national security law for chanting pro-independence slogans, amid a political crackdown in the city. A local Hong Kong man was convicted of inciting secession on Monday after he was found to have chanted slogans such as “Hong Kong independence, the only

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Seoul hospital says former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo has died. He was 88. The Seoul National University Hospital says Roh died on Tuesday while being treated for an illness. It gave no further details. Roh was a major player in the 1979 military

By RYAN PEARSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood professionals say they’re baffled by the circumstances of the New Mexico movie-set shooting that left a cinematographer dead, adding that production crews have stepped up safety measures. Jeffrey Wright says the death has brought a renewed attention to detail on the set

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press MONROE, La. (AP) — As the Louisiana State Police reel from a federal investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene and other beating cases, dozens of current and former troopers tell The Associated Press of a culture at the agency of impunity, nepotism

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, EMILY SWANSON and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them. That’s the finding of a new poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press MONROE, La. (AP) — As the Louisiana State Police reel from a federal investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene and other beating cases, dozens of current and former troopers tell The Associated Press of a culture at the agency of impunity, nepotism

By JAY REEVES Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all. Claudette Colvin was arrested by Montgomery police months before the

By LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is zeroing in on a package of clean energy strategies for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. The administration believes the new approach could reach the same greenhouse gas emission reduction goals as an initial proposal that ran into opposition

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite its lack of outbreaks to align with China’s policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland. Hong Kong has not had a major outbreak in months while remaining largely closed to international travel. Leader Carrie

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A TikTok star with nearly a million online followers pleaded not guilty on Monday to shooting and killing his newly estranged wife and a man she was with last week at a San Diego high-rise. Prosecutors say Ali Abulaban had surreptitiously installed a listening device on his 5-year-old daughter’s tablet device,

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is and that’s billionaires. Biden never endorsed an outright “wealth tax” when campaigning for the White House last year. But his more conventional proposed rate  increases on the income

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers. They’re trying to wrap up talks on what’s now about a $1.75 trillion

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Details are still emerging about how Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set. But some political onlookers swiftly assigned guilt to one of Hollywood’s most prominent liberals. Right-wing pundits and politicians have long chafed at Baldwin’s criticism of

By ZEKE MILLER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has “deferred” its requests for several dozen pages of Trump administration records at the White House’s urging. But President Joe Biden has again rejected the former president’s invocation of executive privilege

By COLLEEN LONG, RACHEL LA CORTE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 will lead the Biden administration’s effort to protect future elections. Kim Wyman has led elections in Washington state for years, and she was

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have identified the suspect in a Boise, Idaho mall shooting as 27-year-old Jacob Bergquist. Police say Bergquist died at a hospital late Tuesday morning. Police say he is believed to have killed two people and injured four others in the Monday afternoon shooting. The Ada

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A powerful atmospheric river storm that swept through California set rainfall records and helped douse wildfires. But it remains to be seen how much of a dent it made in the state’s drought. The weather system weakened as it moved south but still dropped enough

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Brian Johnson kicked a 33-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining in his NFL debut, and the New Orleans Saints capitalized on a series of Seattle mistakes for a 13-10 win over the Seahawks. Alvin Kamara carried the load for New Orleans and Jameis Winston made a

By LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is zeroing in on a package of clean energy strategies for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. The administration believes the new approach could reach the same greenhouse gas emission reduction goals as an initial proposal that ran into opposition