Month: June 2022

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s security chief on Tuesday said Moscow will respond to Lithuania’s decision to bar rail transit of goods subject to European Union sanctions from Russia to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. The ban was announced by the Lithuanian authorities earlier this month and prompted a flurry of angry retorts from Moscow, with

By YURAS KARMANAU, JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks are laying down a curtain of fire across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region. A regional official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that “everything that can burn

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Heading into the second half of 2022, it’s a good time to pause and check in on your financial life. But what should your midyear money checklist include? While you may not be able to address every financial matter, there are a few items that are worth some extra attention.

HELSINKI (AP) — NATO member Estonia says a Russian border guard helicopter violated the airspace of the Baltic nation over the weekend, and Russia’s ambassador was summoned and given a note over the incident. Estonia’s military said in a statement that the Russian MI-8 helicopter entered the country’s airspace in southeastern Estonia in the Koidula

By AL-EMRUN GARJON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press SYLHET, Bangladesh (AP) — Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh crowded makeshift refugee centers and scrambled to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and in neighboring India, continued to wreak havoc Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Tuesday, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. About 6,000 people gathered at the ancient stone circle in southern England to watch the sun rise at 4:49 a.m. on a clear, crisp morning, local

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections. The meetings at the Elysee presidential palace come after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne formally offered her resignation Tuesday, in line with

BEIJING (AP) — A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, the second major international event to be moved from China because of its strict anti-coronavirus policies. China’s environment ministry says the meeting will be held in December in Montreal. It says the decision was made “after comprehensively considering

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Earl and Countess of Wessex have met with the president of Cyprus as part of a three-day visit to the former British colony to underscore close bilateral ties and to meet soldiers serving with a U.N. peacekeeping force and those stationed at two U.K. military bases. The Earl — the

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state news agency says a flight by a private Syrian airline has landed at an airport used by Russia’s military in the country’s coastal province of Latakia. The Cham Wings flight from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday was the first to land in at

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of railway workers have walked off the job in Britain, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country’s biggest transit strike in three decades. Tuesday’s action could be a precursor to a summer of labor discontent. About 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria that killed 13 people. The extremist group said in a statement late  on Monday that its gunmen attacked the bus with automatic rifles. The Syrian military said 11 soldiers and two civilians were killed in

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s judicial authorities have brought home six women and 16 children with Belgian citizenship who were held in Syria for their suspected connection with the Islamic State group. The federal prosecutor’s office said it’s the second repatriation operation following a July 2021 flight that brought back six

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The final price tag for last year’s COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics has been put at $13 billion (1.4 trillion Japanese yen). The Tokyo organizing committee announced the final cost before the body is dissolved at the end of the month. It was twice what was forecast in

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing coalition government will fast-track a bill this week to dissolve parliament, setting up the country for its fifth elections in three years, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Monday that he would disband his alliance of eight ideologically diverse

By The Associated Press It’s not a summer heat wave that’s making European leaders and businesses sweat. It’s fear that Russia’s manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter. Or, in the worst case, even sooner. Here are key things to know about the energy pressure game over

DANIEL NIEMANN and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city’s majestic cathedral. Alkhudr, 42, became so fascinated by the famous Gothic landmark on the Rhine river with

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As was his habit before each flight, the veteran Ukrainian army pilot ran a hand along the fuselage of his Mi-8 helicopter, caressing the heavy transporter’s metal skin to bring luck to him and his crew. They would need it. Their destination —

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician, conservative ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says he has given up his role as a deputy prime minister in the government. He said he made the move to focus on the party and upcoming elections. The move by Kaczynski was expected. His government role focused on security

By OMAR SANADIKI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — One, two, three, stop. Five, six, seven, stop: A group of young Syrian men and women step, sway and twirl to the backdrop of salsa music, dancing their worries away. For an hour a week in a Damascus studio, their instructor Adnan Mohammed, 42, teaches a

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The trade association for U.S. nuclear plant operators says it hopes to nearly double their output over the next three decades. Those plans hang on the functionality of a new type of nuclear reactor that’s far smaller than traditional reactors. The industry is generating less electricity as reactors retire. Even

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia voters are set to winnow a crowded field of candidates to two nominees to compete in what are expected to be a pair of the country’s most competitive U.S. House races. A combination of a redistricting process that refashioned Virginia’s congressional districts, a Republican

By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — State Rep. Bee Nguyen will be the Democratic candidate for Georgia secretary of state in November. Nguyen is set to face Republican incumbent Brad Raffensperger and Libertarian Ted Metz in the general election. Nguyen has served in the state House since winning a 2017

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship has fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The incident on Monday involving the Guard and the Navy comes as tensions

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and YONG JUN CHANG Associated Press The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea. Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea’s fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across

By JILL COLVIN and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama Tuesday, defeating six-term Rep. Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump took the unusual step of rescinding his initial Brooks endorsement. The loss ends a turbulent campaign that pit

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing a formidable fight for a third term. Her challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary include two council members who have criticized her response to spiraling violent crime rates in the district. During Bowser’s second term, she clashed with former President Donald

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House 1/6 committee outlined on Tuesday Donald Trump’s relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, aiming to show it led to widespread personal threats on the stewards of American democracy –— election workers and local officials — who fended off the defeated

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as markets shrugged off a Wall Street rally and awaited congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% to 26,206.68. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.2% to 6,508.40. South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.7% to 2,367.78.