Month: June 2022

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed into law regulations replacing the controversial body disciplining judges with a new accountability panel. The hope is that the move will persuade the European Union to release billions of euros in pandemic funds frozen over Poland’s political control of the judiciary. Poland’s top politician, Jaroslaw

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainians were still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, acknowledged

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Swiss authorities have carried out a joint operation to detain four people who are accused of membership in or support of the Islamic State group. Officials said Tuesday that one man was detained in Germany on Monday. He is accused of having prepared a serious act of violence endangering the

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain canceled a flight that was scheduled to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda late Tuesday after the European Court of Human Rights intervened, saying the plan carried “a real risk of irreversible harm.” The decision to scrap the flight capped three days of frantic court challenges from

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says its 81-year-old crown prince was resting after experiencing what it described as “minor discomfort.” The two-sentence story from the state-run KUNA news agency on Tuesday did not elaborate on what ailed Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmed Al Jaber. Kuwait’s diwan, or royal court, wished Sheikh Meshal well. Sheikh

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing on Tuesday to divide the tiny island between them. Under the agreement, a border will be drawn

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a Jewish man’s bid to have a 700-year-old antisemitic statue removed from a church where Martin Luther once preached. The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld rulings by lower courts on the sculpture on the Town Church in Wittenberg —

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has started her campaign for a second independence referendum. Sturgeon argues that Scotland would be economically better off outside the United Kingdom. Sturgeon leads the Scottish National Party as well as the devolved government in Scotland. She released on Tuesday the first

By KATIE TAM and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners has been towed from its Hong Kong harborfront location after falling victim to the pandemic. The parent company of Jumbo Floating Restaurant couldn’t find a

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations has warned of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that global greenhouse gas emissions need to drop by 45% this decade but are currently

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president has presented suggestions regarding the disputed maritime border with Israel to the U.S. envoy mediating between the two countries. Amos Hochstein’s meetings in Beirut on Tuesday followed an invitation by the Lebanese government after Israel set up a gas rig at its designated location at

BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has presented a package of measures aimed at cushioning the impact of high inflation that includes 500-euro ($523) payments for all residents and a three-month delay to a new levy on carbon dioxide emissions. The government put the price of immediate measures at about 5 billion euros and said

JERUSALEM (AP) — A.B. Yehoshua, a prominent Israeli author celebrated for his mastery of the Hebrew language and a leading peace activist, has died. He was 85. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by a Tel Aviv hospital. Yehoshua’s work was widely translated and adapted to film and stage. His writing won numerous literary awards,

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani TV journalist apparently taken by force by plainclothes police in the southern port city of Karachi has been released and returned home. His TV station and colleagues reported his release on Tuesday. Nafees Naeem did not comment on his overnight detention. There was no official statement from the police

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Because he’ll shortly be deployed as a soldier on the battlefields of Ukraine, Serhiy Lipko and Anastasia Zukhvala chose to marry first, like a growing number of couples being torn asunder by war with Russia. Like others, their nuptials were rushed and smaller than they would

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official increasingly seen as a successor to the 86-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, says relations with Israel have gotten so bad that Palestinian leaders cannot go on with business as usual. But even if they are serious this

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street opened the week with heavy losses that put the benchmark S&P 500 at a level considered to be a so-called bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China’s economy have led investors

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s announcement of how sharply it will raise interest rates to cool U.S. inflation. Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.4% on

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion at a chemical factory in southern Iran has injured scores of people, most of them lightly. The country’s state TV reported on Tuesday that a leak from an ammonium tank caused the blast on Monday evening in the southern city of Firouzabad in Fars

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the more reliable warning signals for an economic recession started blinking again. Treasurys, the IOUs the U.S. government gives to investors who lend it money are at the center of the investing world. The “yield curve” is a chart showing how much in interest different Treasurys are paying. It

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has won the Democratic nomination for governor, setting up a November showdown with Republican Gov. Henry McMaster. Cunningham has touted the fact that he’s the only Democrat in the state over the past decade to flip a Republican seat in a

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage is seeking a political comeback. With no opposition, he coasted to the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday, setting up a fierce general election campaign against Democratic incumbent Janet Mills. The race is among just a handful of competitive governor’s contests

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama is urging Americans not to tune out a gridlocked political system but realize that voting and enlisting millions of new voters is a pathway to eventual change. Speaking near downtown Los Angeles on Monday, Obama said protecting and expanding democracy

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary after voting to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. He is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to lose a reelection bid.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Nevada attorney general who has embraced lies about the 2020 election has won the Republican nomination for a pivotal U.S. Senate seat. Adam Laxalt fended off a challenge from political newcomer Sam Brown in Tuesday’s primary, setting up what will

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was