Month: May 2022

ROME (AP) — The Ocean Viking rescue ship has brought 294 migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean to a port in Sicily. The arrivals of the migrants on Monday comes the number of migrant arrivals ticks up over last year. The SOS Mediterranee charity criticized Italy for the long wait for a port, since the

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court decided Monday to continue detaining two Albanian men who allegedly joined extremist groups in Syria. The Pristina court decided in separate cases in favor of prosecutors’ requests to leave the suspects in detention for a month. Statements on Monday said a man left Kosovo in November 2015 “to

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say two people are dead and 20 others injured in a crash that sent two cars careening into a crowd of bystanders while an annual Memorial Day weekend “cruise” night was wrapping up in Nebraska’s capital. Two women, ages 20 and 22, had been inside one of the cars and

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer PARIS (AP) — French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final, while blaming industrial levels of fraud that saw 30,000 to 40,000 people try to enter the Stade de France with fake tickets or

By CHINEDU ASADU and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox in 2022 while Congo has confirmed nine deaths and 465 cases this year. The chief of the Sankuru health division in Congo said Monday that the persistence of the disease in Congo is due to

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 7.9% in May, its highest level in nearly half a century, according to an official estimate. The Federal Statistical Office said Monday that year-on-year inflation jumped from 7.4% in April, with energy prices 38.3% higher than in May last year and food prices up 11.1%. It

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Still mourning a Texas mass shooting, Democrat Beto O’Rourke gave his long-shot campaign a jolt by imploring a national audience that it was finally time for real action to curb the proliferation of high-powered guns in his home state and across America. That was 2019, and the

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Javier Cazares raced to his daughter’s school when he heard there was a shooting and spent 35 to 45 agonizing minutes there, waiting for word of her. He scanned the children fleeing Robb Elementary School for his 9-year-old “firecracker.” He yearned to run

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese officials have arrested two health workers from a neonatal unit where a fire killed 11 newborns last week. The nurse and a nurse’s aide who were on duty Wednesday night when the fire took place at the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital. They were arrested

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers who cleaned up the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, coal ash spill spent years working in conditions that they believe made them sick. The first worker lawsuits were filed against cleanup contractor Jacobs Engineering in 2013. But nearly a decade later, not a single case has made

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says next month’s NATO summit in Madrid will be a “historic” opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Stoltenberg spoke Monday at a gala in Madrid to mark Spain’s 40th year as a NATO member. He

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese judicial officials say a judge has questioned disgraced auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, days after Lebanon received a wanted notice for him from Interpol. Monday’s development followed a new Red Notice given to Lebanon after the French prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has displayed a trove of ancient artifacts recently unearthed at the famed necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo. The artifacts were showcased on Monday at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara. Egypt’s top official with the Supreme Council of Antiquities said the find includes includes 250 painted sarcophagi

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia say that a small plane that went off the radar has crashed, killing four people on board. A civil protection official said that search teams on Monday found the Cessna 182 plane near Brocanac, in central Croatia. The official said police have launched a probe into the accident.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Former Defense Minister Peter Dutton has been chosen to lead Australia’s conservative opposition following his party’s election defeat nine days ago. Dutton was elected unopposed to lead the Liberal Party, and former environment minister Sussan Ley was elected his deputy. Before entering Parliament, Dutton, worked for a decade as a police

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in southern Poland say five people have been injured when a bus carrying nearly two dozen pupils on a school trip veered off a road and toppled into a ditch. Authorities said three of the injured were hospitalized after Monday’s crash near the village of Roztoka but their lives weren’t

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has lodged a complaint over a South Korean ship conducting a marine survey in waters near Japanese-claimed islands controlled by Seoul. A government spokesperson says it was “totally unacceptable” that a South Korean research ship was spotted trailing what appeared to be a cable near the

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian Parliament has failed to elect a new president after no candidates were nominated for a third round of voting. The governing left-wing Socialist Party and the opposition failed to reach a compromise on a candidate to replace President Ilir Meta, and no independent candidate was nominated. In the first

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing coalition and the main opposition party have reached a deal to move ahead with a big increase in defense spending that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced three months ago. Scholz said three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started that Germany would commit 100 billion euros ($107 billion) to a

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Budget carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has reached an agreement with Boeing to buy 50 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline says the planes are due to be delivered between 2025 and 2028 at a schedule closely corresponding to current aircraft lease expirations. The company said Monday it intends to finance the