Month: June 2022

By MUNIR AHMED and ASIM TANVEER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has sentenced one of the militants linked to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India to 15 years in prison for terror financing unrelated to the assaults. That’s according to court documents viewed by The Associated Press on Monday. Sajid Majeed Mir, 43,

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss intelligence service says authorities should do whatever they can to prevent Russian spies who have been expelled from Western countries after President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine from turning up in countries like Switzerland. The Federal Intelligence Service released its annual report Monday. It surveyed an array of threats including

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has spent weeks warning that the Supreme Court decision undermining the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling could open the door for sweeping new restrictions on privacy. She argues the fallout could affect birth control, in vitro fertilization, gay marriage and that other new

The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man who complained there was too much mayonnaise on his sandwich opened fire at a Subway sandwich shop in Atlanta, killing one employee and injuring another. The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Sunday at a Subway attached to a gas station in downtown Atlanta. Police said

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of its response to an “era of strategic competition,” the military alliance’s secretary-general said Monday. The NATO reaction force currently numbers around 40,000 soldiers which can deploy quickly when needed.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s Defense Ministry says a cyberattack temporarily knocked out public and private websites in the country with a pro-Moscow hacker group reportedly claiming responsibility. The ministry said Monday that a DDOS attack had targeted a secure national data network. The Websites were back online later the same day. The attack came

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a temporary worker has been charged in a shooting that killed a co-worker and wounded two others at an automotive interior products warehouse in suburban Chicago. Twenty-seven-year-old Charles McKnight Jr. was arraigned Sunday on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and ordered held on $5 million bond.

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year — some over wildfire concerns amid dry weather and others because of enduring pandemic-related staffing and supply chain

By KEVIN McGILL, AMY FORLITI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Judges temporarily blocked abortion bans Monday in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — The pandemic-era federal aid that made school meals available for free to all public school students — regardless of family income levels — is ending, raising fears about the effects in the upcoming school year for families already struggling with rising food and fuel costs. A

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One person has been killed and about 10 injured as a powerful storm ripped through a historic fishing town in the southern Netherlands, tearing the roofs off at least four houses and sending café furniture flying through the streets. Video posted on social media showed a waterspout close to the

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Care for a hint of crab in your whiskey? A New Hampshire distillery’s newest concoction is Crab Trapper, a whiskey flavored with invasive green crabs. Tamworth Distilling is a maker of craft spirits that pushes boundaries with unexpected flavors like secretion from a beaver’s castor sacs.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Cabinet has approved a new draft of a LGBTQ rights bill that if backed by parliament will allow people as young as 16 to change their gender freely and those as young as 12 to do so with a judge’s authorization. This version of the bill is very similar to the

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials say a display of war-damaged Russian weapons in downtown Warsaw serves as a reminder of the horrors of the war in Ukraine but also that Russian aggression can be defeated. Polish and Ukrainian government officials opened the display in Warsaw’s Castle Square on Monday. The

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Corrections officials said a Georgia man recently sentenced to death in the killings of two corrections officers has died in prison of an apparent suicide. A Department of Corrections news release says guards found Ricky Dubose unresponsive in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson around 4:45

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Farmers driving tractors are blocking highways in the Netherlands in the latest protest sparked by a government pledge to rein in pollution emissions, a move that will hit the country’s agriculture sector. Authorities urged motorists to check traffic updates Monday before setting off, amid the protests that follow a gathering

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities were seeking answers Monday, a day after 21 underage teenagers partying after the end of school exams died in a mysterious incident at a nightclub. The bodies of many of the victims, the youngest a 13-year-old girl, were discovered by police

LONDON (AP) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar has closed this year’s Glastonbury Festival with a powerful headline set that saw him chant “Godspeed for women’s rights” as fake blood poured down his face from a crown of thorns. Lamar, 35, ended his new song “Savior” by chanting, “they judge you, they judge Christ. Godspeed for women’s

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II traveled to her official residence in Scotland on Monday to open a week of traditional events, starting with an ancient ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The 96-year-old monarch, who has cut back on public appearances in recent months because of ongoing problems in moving around, took part in

By YURAS KARMANAU and FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian long-range bombers struck a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk with a missile on Monday, raising fears of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an “unimaginable” number of victims in “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.”

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top South Korean official says North Korea is increasingly targeting the South with its nuclear arms program, and urged China and Russia to persuade the North not to conduct a widely expected nuclear test. Unification Minster Kwon Youngse’s comments come after North Korean leader