Month: June 2022

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The last British governor of Hong Kong says Beijing’s crackdown on civil liberties in the former…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A giant stingray caught in the Mekong River last week is more than a giant — it is the biggest of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the…

By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of students from state universities marched in Sri Lanka’s capital on…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish prosecutor says three people have been charged with planning acts of terrorism by acquiring weapons and…

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government is banning companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed concern about rising food prices caused in part by the war…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is defending its decision to bar rail transit from Russia to a Russian Baltic…

By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Holed up in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops keep a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa has offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to…

MADRID (AP) — Cooler temperatures are helping firefighters stabilize a wildfire in northwestern Spain that reports say is the biggest on record in…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was being held in a hotel room in southern Italy on Monday pending…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital joined forces on Monday to bring back home an international…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have seized three apartments and a bank account owned by a Russian lawmaker and his wife under European…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic. Johnson spokesman Max Blain said…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appeared in court in connection with an old corruption case.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers have renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China’s treatment of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that authorities have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from…

By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military machine is persevering in its ferocious effort to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in decades after last-minute talks between a union and…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philippine officials are mourning a government attorney fatally shot in Philadelphia and called for the perpetrator to be…