Month: June 2022

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South Korean official slain by North Korea near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary in 2020 had intended to defect to the North. Thursday’s announcement by the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol has

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers are discussing ways to bolster forces and deterrence along the military alliance’s eastern borders to dissuade Russia from planning further aggression. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led allies to rethink strategies, and they now agree that NATO forces should be present in greater numbers

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit. The meeting of world leaders from June 20 to 25  will focus attention on Rwanda’s widely criticized deal with Britain to deport asylum-seekers from

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Small Italian fashion producers are still allowed to export to Russia despite sanctions, as long as the wholesale price is under 300 euros. But they are having a hard time getting paid due to restrictions tied to the financial sector. Italy is the largest producer

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The ethics adviser to scandal-hit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit and accused the government of seeking to flout conduct rules. In a resignation letter, Christopher Geidt said he was put in an “impossible and odious position” because the government asked him to advise on measures

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kristia Leyendecker has navigated a range of opposing views from her two siblings and other loved ones since 2016, when Donald Trump’s election put a sharp, painful point on their political divisions as she drifted from the Republican Party of today and they didn’t. Then came

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Foreign ministers from India and Southeast Asia are meeting in New Delhi, with India and Singapore calling for a strengthening of ties amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and a heightened rivalry between the United States and China that threaten peace and stability in the region. India’s

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly lower Friday after Wall Street fell on fears interest rate hikes will depress global economic activity. Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney fell. Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Oil prices edged lower but stayed above $115 per barrel. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500

By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Four European leaders expressed their support for Ukraine on Thursday while meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing to back Kyiv’s candidacy to eventually join the European Union and offering more weapons to fend off Russia’s invasion. French President Emmanuel Macron promised Ukraine six

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S.-led global coalition fighting the Islamic State group says it has conducted a military operation in northern Syria to capture a senior leader from the extremist group.  In a statement, it said the captured leader was an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator and described him

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two officials say the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, known as Houthis, have recruited several hundred children, including those as young as 10 years of age over the past two months. Four aid workers say they observed intensified efforts by the Houthis in recent weeks to recruit children,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister has made New Zealand the first stop on her third Pacific trip in a month as Canberra steps up efforts to counter China’s growing influence in the region. Foreign Minister Penny Wong is promoting her administration’s stronger ambition on curbing greenhouse gas

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An official says that a Yemeni journalist was killed when his car exploded while he was driving in the southern port city of Aden, the latest such attack in the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government. Information Minister Moammar al-Iryani says an improvised explosive device had

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t be listing the iconic western Joshua tree as a threatened species for now. The California Fish and Game Commission voted 2-2 Thursday on whether to list the tree under state Endangered Species Act. The tie vote doesn’t mean the tree won’t be listed. Instead

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — This gateway town to Yellowstone National Park has become a dead end, a casualty of the severe flooding that tore through one of America’s most beloved natural attractions and swept away roads, bridges and homes. The unprecedented flood has closed the entire

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — The wife of a man who killed two police officers in a Los Angeles suburb says she warned them he had a gun. Diana Flores tells KCBS-TV that Justin Flores had attacked her two days ago and she warned El Monte officers

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government is facing criticism following his plea to the nation to drink less tea to help save on imports amid a deepening economic crisis. Tea is a hugely popular drink among both the rich and the poor in this country of

By STEVE PEOPLES and SAM METZ Associated Press Nevada Republican Jim Marchant insisted there hadn’t been a legitimate election in his state in more than a decade. All of Nevada’s election winners since 2006, he said on a recent podcast, were “installed by the deep-state cabal.” But when Marchant won the Republican nomination for Nevada

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t be testifying at the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But Pence will be in the spotlight Thursday as the committee turns its focus to then-President Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to persuade him to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat came into ever-clearer focus Thursday, with testimony describing his pressuring Vice President Mike Pence in vulgar private taunts and public entreaties to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the run-up to

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought

By FABIANNO MAISONNAVE, EDMAR BARROS and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities say a fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered. Authorities say they expecte to make more arrests soon in

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ALONG BAYOU POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. (AP) — As another hurricane season gets started, many Native American residents in southeast Louisiana are still struggling to recover from last year’s Hurricane Ida. Native Americans have lived in the bayous of southeast Louisiana for hundreds of years and have strong connections to the land

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally assaulted in San Francisco, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat in Detroit by two white men who never served jail time.

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ALONG BAYOU POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. (AP) — Driving through her village along a southeastern Louisiana bayou, tribal official Cherie Matherne points out the remnants of house after house — including her own — wrecked nine months ago when Hurricane Ida roared through the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe community. Beige trailers from the

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KOZANI, Greece (AP) — At Greece’s largest coal mine, controlled explosions and the roar of giant excavators scooping up blasted rock have once again become routine. Coal production has been ramped up at the site near the northern Greek city of Kozani as the war in Ukraine forced many European

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. border authorities stopped migrants more often on the southern border for a fourth straight month in May, apparently unaffected by expectations that pandemic-era limits on asylum may be lifted. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday that migrants were stopped more than 239,000 times last month, up 2% from April Recent

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — While reviewing the photo archives left by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, one of his granddaughters came across a mysterious plastic box with the word “grandchildren” written on its label. At first, Emilia García Elizondo was afraid to open the box but curiosity overcame