Month: October 2021

PARIS (AP) — French schools are paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. Samuel Paty was murdered on Oct. 16 last year near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had

MADRID (AP) — A second 4.5-magnitude earthquake in two days has rattled the Spanish island of La Palma. The two quakes were the strongest to hit the Canary Island off northwest Africa since the volcano erupted on Sept. 19. Rivers of molten rock that scientists described on Friday as “a true lava tsunami” forced the

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed by a mob. Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyaribai confirmed the killing of Masten Wanjala on Thursday. The killing near his home in Bungoma county came a day

By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding 70, a Taliban official said. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. military withdrawal. There was no immediate claim of

BEIJING (AP) — Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China has renewed its commitment to international cooperation in the peaceful use of space. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says sending humans into space was a common cause of mankind and China would continue to extend the depth and breadth of

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all workers to show a health pass to enter their place of employment. Police were out in force, schools were closing early and embassies issued warnings amid concerns that anti-vaccination demonstrations could turn violent

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It issued a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings of American families. The report lays out steps that could potentially alter the

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman for Baton Rouge police told news outlets that four of the juveniles took off in a vehicle and the fifth ran away. The inmate who ran was captured first. News outlets

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging former King Juan Carlos I to offer a public explanation of his suspected financial wrongdoings. The 83-year-old former monarch has been the target of official investigations in Spain and Switzerland. One of them involved possible kickbacks in a high-speed railway contract in Saudi Arabia. Sánchez told broadcaster

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong and mainland authorities have seized about $540,000 worth of smuggled Australian lobsters believed to be bound for the mainland, after China restricted imports of the crustacean amid escalating tensions with Australia. Hong Kong authorities say its customs and Chinese law enforcement agencies confiscated about

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British health officials say an estimated 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory. The U.K. Health Security Agency said Friday that a lab in the central England city of Wolverhampton has been suspended from processing

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In response to growing violence across Nigeria’s northwest and central states, governors have blocked telecommunications in many areas across five states to enable the military to carry out special operations targeted at the armed groups attacking local communities. However, local officials and residents told The Associated

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has appeared to criticize the global lack of action on climate change in comments caught on microphone. The 95-year-old British monarch was filmed on a phone as she visited Cardiff to open the Welsh parliament on Thursday. Speaking to her daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and parliament presiding officer

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it’s asked Interpol for help to arrest two foreigners including a Ukrainian over their alleged involvement in cyberattacks and large-scale extortion that targeted South Korean and U.S. companies.  The Korean Police Agency said Friday that it’s received domestic arrest warrants for the

By NICOLAE DUMITRACE and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — Residents of a Norwegian town are grappling with the horrible knowledge that someone living in their community used a bow and arrow to attack people on a weekday evening and killed five of them. People lay flowers and lit candles on a

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next month to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, complying with a judge’s order. It hinges on approval from the Mexican government, which has raised concerns that U.S. officials

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The #MeToo reckoning hits its four-year mark this week, and Charlotte Bennett credits the movement for creating the conditions that emboldened her to come forward with her story of sexual harassment by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. She says, “I’d like to think that

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Funerals have taken place across Lebanon for seven people killed in gunbattles in the streets of Beirut the day before. Schools, banks and government offices across Lebanon shut down for a day of mourning on Friday. The confrontations had erupted on Thursday over a long-running probe

By The Associated Press Americans have watched a public reckoning unfold since 2017 as the #MeToo movement exposed the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in people’s lives. But has the movement changed their own lives in meaningful ways?  A new poll suggests that it has. Roughly half of Americans say the recent attention to

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (AP) — Zoltan Sztojka, by his own account Hungary’s last Roma fortuneteller, is working to preserve his culture’s traditions that are slowly vanishing in the Central European country. He is a member of Hungary’s large Roma minority, and says his family has been practicing fortunetelling for more than

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is suing Toyota Motor Corp. over a patent for a technology used in electric motors in a rare case of legal wrangling between Japan’s top steelmaker and automaker over intellectual property. Nippon Steel filed the lawsuit in Tokyo District Court, demanding compensation for

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign tourists entering India by regular flights would be able to do so after Nov. 15. It is the first time India has allowed foreign tourists to enter the country since March 2020. It is

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, DARIA LITVINOVA and JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Millions from Latin America to the Middle East are waiting for promised doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine due to manufacturing problems and other issues. Moscow aggressively marketed Sputnik after wealthy nations kept supplies of Western-developed vaccines

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&P 500 its best week since July. The benchmark index added 0.7% and ended the week up 1.8%. Encouraging reports on the economy and corporate profits helped the market steady itself following a shaky few weeks.

By KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has long presented itself as a reliable U.S. ally in a turbulent Middle East, as a monarchy embracing liberal Western values. But the country seems to be in a downward slide that increasingly contradicts this image. The kingdom has become more repressive, with a U.S.

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has confirmed he will attend a climate summit in Glasgow next month despite his government remaining bitterly divided over a draft plan for the country to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government’s next climate plan will

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of an entire motel and attempting to extort money from the hundreds of guests who were filmed. A police official said the suspects filmed guests for months but all their extortion attempts failed. Police didn’t

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is grappling with the legacy of one of its pivotal presidents who also played a key role in the displacement of Native American tribes. Francis Amasa Walker helped propel the Cambridge college into prominence as its third president. But the former

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The lawyers for accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz say he plans to plead guilty to the 2018 massacre at a Parkland high school. The guilty plea would set up a penalty phase where the 23-year-old Cruz would be fighting against the death penalty and

By The Associated Press Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. says it plans to build a computer chip factory in Japan. TSMC’s CEO C.C. Wei said in a earnings conference call that the plan was subject to approval by TSMC’s board of directors and that details would be released later. He said the company had a “strong

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and prized midseason acquisition Max Scherzer came out of the bullpen for his first career save, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Francisco Giants 2-1 in a thrilling winner-take-all Game 5 and into

By ASTRID GALVAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The latest restrictions in Texas that essentially ban abortion past the six-week pregnancy mark have made it nearly impossible for teenagers to get an abortion without parental consent. They can go to a judge to ask for permission if they do not want to

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s governors’ races. On Friday, Biden appeared at events with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor running to regain the post. The first lady has regularly traveled the

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first look at its review. The draft report is cautious in discussing proposals for expanding the court but also speaks approvingly of term limits for justices. The 36-member bipartisan commission, largely composed of

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied the panel’s subpoena. Rep. Bennie Thompson says the panel will vote Tuesday to recommend

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton will remain hospitalized overnight as he recovers from a urological infection in a Southern California hospital. A spokesman says Clinton’s in excellent spirits and his health indicators are “trending in the right direction,” but he will remain overnight in order to

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder for shooting Susan Berman point-blank in the back of the head at her home in December 2000.  The killing had been a mystery that haunted family and friends for 15 years

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state New South Wales says it will end hotel quarantine for vaccinated passengers when scheduled international flights restart from Sydney within two weeks. The government says vaccinated travelers who test negative to COVID-19 before flying to Sydney will be spared 14 days in

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being tested again by the latest spill to foul beaches and kill birds and fish off Orange County. The state has a long history of environmentally damaging leaks – in just one case in

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By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention official is resigning amid internal rifts over how to handle an investigation into the SBC’s response to sexual abuse.  It’s a decision that underscores the broader ongoing turmoil in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A major Southern California highway was reopened as firefighters made progress against a wildfire in a coastal mountain range. Authorities warn the flames are still threatening remote properties. The Alisal Fire is 11 % contained after charring more than 26 square miles in the Santa Ynez Mountains west of Santa

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration says it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September. The announcement Friday by the Justice Department comes after an appeals court again left in place the

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A senior diplomat says Southeast Asia’s foreign ministers have decided not to invite Myanmar’s military leader to an annual summit for refusing to let an envoy meet ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The move by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the biggest