Month: June 2022

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO-member Norway terminated its two-decade-old contract with a France-based manufacturer for 14 maritime helicopters, citing delays, errors and time-consuming maintenance, The Norwegian defense minister said Friday that the government will return the NH90 helicopters it received so far and expects a refund of $525 million.

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Battling rampant inflation, Zimbabweans are counting their toes as they struggle to buy food for their families. An internet rumor blazed through the country that desperate people were selling their toes for cash. The false report became so widespread that the country’s Deputy Minister of Information

BERLIN (AP) — A 100 billion-euro ($107 billion) fund to strengthen the German military has cleared its final legislative hurdle, winning approval from parliament’s upper house. The decision clears the way for the government to move ahead with a massive procurement drive that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. Parliament’s upper house,

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say a helicopter with seven people on board, including four Turkish citizens, has gone missing in northern Italy. NTV television said Friday the helicopter took off from the city of Lucca heading for Treviso but disappeared off the radar near Modena region. NTV says the Turkish citizens are

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian artillery pummeled the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in April, one family decided to flee, walking for miles with three young children in tow to a nearby village. But it was thanks to a volunteer driver who crossed the front line that they managed

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank may soon get a taste of the military rule that Palestinians have been living under for 55 years. If Israel’s parliament does not act, a special legal status accorded to the settlers will expire at the end of the month,

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Friday eased its borders for foreign tourists and began accepting visa applications, but only for those on guided package tours who are willing to follow mask-wearing and other antivirus measures as the country cautiously tries to balance business and infection worries. Friday is the first

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Hosting Champions League games in Poland and planning a humanitarian tour of the United States feel like natural next steps for Ukraine’s top soccer team after eight years exiled from its home city by Russian aggression. The story of Shakhtar Donetsk — playing only away games

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister says after a meeting with his New Zealand counterpart that the two nations are in lockstep in their policies toward the Pacific islands, where China’s influence is growing. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday became the first foreign leader to visit

By DAVID KEYTON and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Civilians are fleeing eastern Ukraine where Russian and Ukrainian forces are engaged in a grinding war off attrition. Women, children and elderly residents departed Friday on a special evacuation train. Svitlana Kaplun left with her family after shelling reached their neighborhood. She told

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The prices of gas, food and most other goods and services jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from a year earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year increase of

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Jan. 6 congressional hearings are being held with the help of a big-time television producer, and dramatic revelations have been promised. But this is an event that many Americans saw unfold live, and in countless clips and memes on their smartphones in the coming

BEIJING (AP) — State media say a Chinese fighter jet crashed into houses during a training mission, killing one person on the ground and injuring two others. State broadcaster CCTV’s military channel reported the J-7’s pilot ejected safely when the jet crashed in Hubei province Thursday morning. The state media reports were unusual because China

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has temporarily halted evictions for people living in certain households on Nooksack Tribal Land who were contentiously disenrolled from the tribe. Cascadia Daily News reports a panel of justices on Tuesday granted an injunction requiring the Nooksack Indian Tribe in northwestern Washington to put the evictions on

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An injured officer who slipped in blood and spoke of “carnage.” Video of a huge, violent mob pushing through the U.S. Capitol. Former President Donald Trump’s allies and family members acknowledging his lies. House investigators worked to lay out a devastating

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A decades-long search by a Florida woman and her extended family linked to an unsolved murder case has resulted in the woman finding her missing granddaughter, now grown with no previous knowledge of her tragic history. But the mystery behind who brutally killed the infant girl’s parents more than 40 years

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears has married her longtime partner Sam Asghari at a Southern California ceremony that came months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. Asghari’s representative Brandon Cohen confirmed the couple’s nuptials. He said: “I am very ecstatic this day