Month: July 2022

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese official says the death toll from days of tribal clashes that have rocked a southern province has reached at least 79. The health minister of the Blue Nile province says the fighting there between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups also left around 200 injured.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Nearly three dozen migrants were sentenced to jail time in Morocco on Tuesday for attempting to scale a border wall last month separating the north African country from the Spanish enclave of Melilla. The court in Nador sentenced 33 people to 11 months, in a decision that was criticized by rights

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A popular Chinese-made automotive GPS tracker used in 169 countries has severe software vulnerabilities, posing a potential danger to users’ safety, national security and supply chains, cybersecurity researchers have found. A report by the Boston cybersecurity firm BitSight says the flaws could let attackers remotely hijack

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz viewed graphic video Tuesday of him murdering 17 people as he stalked through a three-story classroom building at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago. The video, compiled from 13 security cameras

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi announced Tuesday he tested positive for the virus. But Jan. 6 committee spokesman Tim

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has invoked national security powers to forge ahead with a tourist train along the Caribbean coast that threatens extensive caves where some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is racing to finish his

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this month for 10 more days until they file formal charges. Abe, one of Japan’s most influential politicians, was assassinated on July 8 in the western

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukraine has become an association country of the International Energy Agency. Both stressed Tuesday that closer cooperation will help Europe face what is expected to be a hard winter amid an energy crisis tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The move reflects Ukraine’s crucial role for European and global energy security

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top administrative court has ruled that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to pull Turkey out of a key European treaty protecting women from violence was lawful. The court rejected petitions seeking its cancellation. Erdogan withdrew Turkey for the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention last year. The move prompted condemnation

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says its aircraft struck a post of the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip in response to a gunshot fired into southern Israel from the territory. Palestinian media said the site was struck multiple times by missiles on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the military said a bullet fired

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s only abortion clinic has resumed scheduling patients for abortions following a ruling from a Charleston judge blocking enforcement of the state’s 150-year-old abortion ban. The state’s attorney general filed a motion to the state Supreme Court asking it to stay the decision while his

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S. hospitals with ransomware. The agencies were able to recover half a million dollars in ransom payments. That’s according to Deputy Attorney

By TERRY WALLACE and KEN MILLER Associated Press A North Texas wildfire continued to grow Tuesday amid sweltering temperatures and dry conditions after burning at least a dozen structures, officials said. The Chalk Mountain Fire about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Fort Worth was the largest active Texas wildfire as of Tuesday afternoon after

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s attempt to delay a lawsuit filed against him by Twitter after he tried to walk away from a $44 billion agreement to buy the company has failed. On Tuesday, a Delaware judge ordered an expedited trial citing the “cloud of uncertainty” over the

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month. Methanol was found in all of their bodies and investigations are continuing to determine whether the levels

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s art squad police say they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist. Carabinieri police said on Tuesday that art merchants had allegedly described the work as being painted by a follower

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are kicking off a summer learning tour this week with stops in Connecticut, Georgia and Michigan over two days. The first lady’s office says the purpose is to highlight summer learning programs that are helping children who fell behind on

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces, accompanied by an investigative judge, have raided the country’s Central Bank in a divisive investigation against the bank’s embattled governor. The judge was apparently searching for the governor in the raid on Tuesday but left after not finding him. Judge Ghada Aoun had been

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods. A report released Tuesday by the Cook County treasurer’s office proposes scrapping or modifying

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has centralized and overhauled its investment strategy after a botched deal lost tens of millions of euros. The new policy announced Tuesday by the Secretariat for the Economy prohibits investments in products such as pornography and weapons and prioritizes prudent investing in industries that promote

By BOB EDME and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — Investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in southwest France detained a man for questioning, as firefighters and water-bombing planes on Tuesday fought ferocious flames there and in other parts of Europe that have baked in

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When inflation has you on a tight budget, a credit card may seem like an easy option to stay afloat. Without a plan in place to pay it off, though, you could be at risk for credit card mistakes that lead to a mountain of debt. If you’re in a

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman. A cultural preservation organization announced Tuesday that the house will receive a share of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister has narrowed. Three candidates for Conservative Party leader are now left for the two spots in a run-off vote. Kemi Badenoch, a rising star of the party’s right wing, was eliminated from the contest on Tuesday

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has proposed earmarking 500 million euros for joint defense procurement in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the military aid EU nations have offered to Kyiv. The European Commission said in a statement that the first-ever such pooling of resources “will avoid competition among

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister says he expects South Korea to take appropriate steps toward resolving the countries’ wartime disputes, warning that a mishandling especially of the issue of forced Korean laborers would cause “grave” consequences for their bilateral ties. Yoshimasa Hayashi hosted his South Korean counterpart Park Jin

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles have struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin received Iran’s strong support for his military operation. The regional governor in the eastern city of Kramatorsk said one person was killed in an airstrike Tuesday that hit an

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalization rates have also doubled, although intensive care admissions have remained low. In a statement on Tuesday, WHO’s Europe director said super-infectious relatives of the omicron variant were

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace,

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary has ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure. Masoud Setayeshi, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, announced on Tuesday

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent’s first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the preservation of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A government official says the president of Cyprus  has tested positive for the coronavirus. President Nicos Anastasiades tested positive during routine testing on Tuesday. Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said Anastasiades has exhibited mild symptoms and his condition is considered very good. According to Health Ministry figures, Cyprus had a 12.6% coronavirus

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years. That has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. At Monday’s opening of a