Month: July 2022

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press LOUISIANA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia is celebrating two major anniversaries this year — 200 years ago freed…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Foundation, created with wealth generated from the oil industry more than a…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say they have broken up a people-smuggling gang near the border with Hungary. They found weapons and…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has targeted Ukraine’s Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with airstrikes…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Wednesday as traders prepared for a possible sharp…

BEIJING (AP) — China is warning it will respond forcefully if U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proceeds with a planned visit to Taiwan. Pelosi would…

NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage. The folk legend performed her first full-length concert on Sunday at the Newport Folk…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities say the bodies of eight migrants have washed ashore in southern Morocco after their dinghy capsized. The…

By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says Russia’s war on Ukraine is responsible…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments have agreed to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect against further supply cuts by…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national statistics office says that the country’s average life expectancy dropped noticeably between 2019 and…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has demolished the homes of two Palestinians suspected of killing an Israeli security guard in a West…

By DAVID RISING and EILEEN NG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — International outrage over Myanmar’s execution of four political prisoners is…

By AJIT SOLANKI Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Officials say at least 28 people have died and another 60 have fallen sick from drinking…

TOKYO (AP) — Prosecutors have searched the home of former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi in…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia’s first outbreak of COVID-19 has grown in one week to more than 1,000…

MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis’ apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system and the…

BEIJING (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has formally invited his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to the Group of 20 summit in Bali this fall…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A prosecutor says that a commercial truck driver charged in the deaths in 2019 of seven…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament has sat for the first time since May elections with the new…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Under the sweltering heat, Matthew Carr spent his lunch break in a…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The intensifying rivalry between former President Donald Trump and his once fiercely loyal vice…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans are warming up to Doug Mastriano. When he crushed a nine-person field to win the…

SYDNEY (AP) — Seven Manly Sea Eagles players have withdrawn from a National Rugby League match in Australia because they’re unwilling to wear…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Police tried to learn why a man gunned down four people in a Vancouver suburb as…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi state agency has dropped its attorney investigating millions in misspent welfare dollars. The state Department…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge says that a conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says Libya is mired in a constitutional and political stalemate…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society says it is dropping “Audubon” from its name because the man the organization is named…