Month: June 2022

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police say a 24 year-old Syrian man believed to be among 43 other Syrian migrants who reached Cyprus aboard two rubber dinghies has been found dead in waters just off the island’s western coastline. A police spokesman told the Associated Press Thursday that the man was likely aboard a dinghy

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Bavaria say they’re releasing all previously unpublished files on the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics following criticism from relatives of Israeli athletes and coaches who died there. The top security official in the southern German state said Thursday that Bavaria will no longer keep any files under wraps, but

GENEVA (AP) — Dozens of mostly Western countries have criticized North Korea’s weapons programs as its government takes over the rotating presidency of the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament. The countries expressed concerns about North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities and activities, including reports that it may be readying a seventh nuclear test. The

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press Madrid (AP) — Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing some 30 soldiers kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco. The Defense Ministry

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within strife-torn Myanmar has exceeded 1 million for the first time. Well over half of those displaced lost their homes after the military ousted the elected government last year. The U.N. Office for the Coordination

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have fatally shot a Hindu bank manager and a worker from India in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police blamed the attacks on militants fighting against Indian rule of the disputed region. It was the third killing of a Hindu in the past three days in the Muslim-majority

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye.” The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, turkey,

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has accused Washington of jeopardizing peace after U.S. envoys began trade talks with Taiwan aimed at deepening relations with the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing. The U.S. government said talks that started this week cover trade, regulation and other areas based on “shared

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II stepped gingerly onto the Buckingham Palace balcony Thursday, drawing wild cheers from the tens of thousands who came to join her at the start of four days of celebrations of her 70 years on the throne. Her fans sported Union Jack

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The independence of Poland’s courts is at the heart of a dispute with the European Union, which has withheld billions in pandemic recovery funds to Warsaw over the matter. The EU’s executive branch finally approved Poland’s funding late Wednesday but said its release depends on Warsaw

By ABDUL KHALIQ Associated Press WASHIR, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. On a recent day in Washir district in

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — For many Libyans, clashes that erupted in the capital of Tripoli last month were all too familiar — a deja vu of street fighting, reverberating gunfire and people cowering inside their homes. A video circulated online on the day, showing a man shouting from a mosque loudspeaker

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Friday amid mixed signs for investors such as rising energy prices and COVID-19 restrictions easing in China. Trading was closed in China for the Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday. Benchmarks in the rest of the region edged higher, cheered by a rally

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during what the army described as violent confrontations. They are among four Palestinians who have been killed in the last two days at a time of heightened Mideast tensions. The Israeli military says forces

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia and China are continuing their tit-for-tat diplomatic rivalry in the Pacific as the foreign ministers from each country pay separate visits to island nations. In Samoa, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced Thursday that her country would donate a patrol boat to replace a

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at nightclubs or concerts in recent months. Doctors and multiple prosecutors are on the case, but no one knows who’s doing it or why, and whether the victims have been

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is a heavily Democratic state, but the Republican Party retains pockets of strength in U.S. House districts that will be among the country’s marquee elections in the fight to control Congress. House Republicans need to capture only a handful of seats nationally to

By BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press An 18-year-old was undergoing treatment for an eating disorder when she learned she was pregnant, already in the second trimester. A mom of two found out at 20 weeks that her much-wanted baby had no kidneys or bladder. A young woman was raped and couldn’t fathom continuing a pregnancy. Abortions

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As college graduates wait to see whether President Joe Biden will wipe out some of their student loan debt, his administration is taking a more limited step to address a fraud scandal at Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit chain that collapsed nearly a decade ago.

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury’s finding that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were defamed during their long-running public dispute capped a lurid six-week trial that also raised questions about whether the two actors can overcome tarnished reputations. The verdict handed down Wednesday in Virginia found that

By STEVE McMORRAN AP Sports Writer WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Rugby has been given approval to sign a ground-breaking deal with private equity firm Silver Lake which will bring a cash windfall but which some observers fear may threaten the “special bond” between New Zealanders and the All Blacks national team. Silver

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after she was shot on the city’s South Side. In a news conference at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Police Supt. David Brown said that at 5:42 p.m. Wednesday two uniformed officers were in a marked squad car attempting a traffic

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit that said the agency was responsible for an officer who killed his estranged wife, wounded her lover and then killed himself in 2018. The Sacramento Bee says the CHP had temporarily taken away Brad Wheat’s service

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa used to think poems descended like an inspiration from the heavens. At 90, he sees poems as welling up from the ground. He told The Associated Press poetry has finally become fun, not the commissioned work it used to be. Tanikawa is among Japan’s most