Month: October 2022

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has unveiled details of its energy price cap for households, together with the outlines of a subsidy system aimed at easing the pain for small-to-medium-sized businesses that use a lot of power. The moves Tuesday come amid soaring prices for gas and electricity caused by Russia’s illegal

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gayl Jones’ “The Birdcatcher,” a short, lyrical novel about a writer’s trip to Ibiza and the gifted, unstable couple she stays with, is a National Book Award finalist for fiction. The nonprofit National Book Foundation announced Tuesday five finalists in each of five competitive categories

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Britain’s immigration minister says people who arrive by unauthorized means should not be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman vowed to press on with a contentious plan to send some arriving asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. But she acknowledged

POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — A 21-year deputy was fatally shot Tuesday while serving a warrant in central Florida, authorities said. The deputy was shot after entering a trailer in the early morning with three other deputies to serve a warrant on a suspect wanted for failing to appear on a felony drug charge, said

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament is debating a controversial draft law the government says is aimed at combating fake news and disinformation but which critics denounce as yet another attempt to stifle freedom of expression. The 40-article piece of legislation being debated on Tuesday includes an

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press Tesla CEO Elon Musk has gotten into a Twitter tussle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the tech billionaire floated a divisive proposal to end Russia’s invasion. Musk’s tweet Monday crossed several red lines for Ukraine. He argued that Russia should be allowed to keep Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula that it

BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Even though a destructive hurricane tore through his community just days earlier, nothing was going to stop Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz from holding prayer services Tuesday night for the start of the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Throughout a southwest Florida devastated

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Sheryl Sandberg opened her next chapter as a full-time philanthropist Tuesday with a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union to fight state abortion bans across the country. Sandberg, who officially left her position as Facebook’s parent company Meta’s chief operating officer last week after 14 years, donated $3

By MEREDITH KOLODNER and ANNIE MA The Hechinger Report/Associated Press The phone call from her son’s school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately. But when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, her son wasn’t sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal’s

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has ordered the Russian consul in the northern city of Sapporo to leave the country within six days in retaliation for Moscow’s expulsion of a Japanese diplomat last month for alleged espionage. Japan’s Foreign Ministry says it summoned Russia’s ambassador to inform him of the decision.

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine says that a planned pipeline to export oil is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni. In an interview with The Associated Press, Wine voiced his opposition to the project that’s increasingly controversial over environmental concerns. Wine, 40,

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to talks on forming a government. Results from Bulgaria’s election on Sunday showed his GERB party with 25.4% of the vote. Other parties passed the support threshold needed to make it into the 240-seat National Assembly. Borissov led three governments

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Devastated by Russia’s invasion eight months ago, the Ukrainian economy will plunge 35% this year. That’s according to a World Bank forecast Tuesday. The war has destroyed factories and farmland and displaced millions of Ukrainians. The 189-country anti-poverty agency estimates that rebuilding Ukraine will cost at

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The funfair lights at Louis Vuitton sere shining as brightly as the starry front row for the vibrant and infectious spring collection from Nicolas Ghesquiere that capped Paris Fashion Week. Dramatic bursts of a tribal drum echoed across the cobbles of the Louvre, leading guests to

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s popular monarch, Queen Margrethe II, has apologized for upsetting members of her family with a decision to strip the royal titles from four of her grandchildren, but has refused to change her mind. Last week, the royal palace of Europe’s oldest royal monarchy announced

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Electricity supply across Bangladesh has been restored after the South Asian country plunged into a blackout following the failure of its national power grid. The blackout, which impacted much of the country, started at 2:05 p.m. on Tuesday and lasted for nearly seven hours before power was completely restored at 9

By GARANCE BURKE Associated Press The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people’s personal data and limit surveillance. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights notably does not set out specific enforcement actions,

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has added the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands to its tax haven blacklist. It also put Anguilla back on as just a year after it was removed. The EU said Tuesday that it made the additions over “concerns that these three jurisdictions, which all have a zero

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations is asking for five times’ more international aid after deadly floods in Pakistan left millions of survivors homeless and at rising risk of waterborne diseases. The UN on Tuesday upped its request to $816 million from $160 million, saying recent assessments pointed to the

By VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania have opened a criminal investigation into suspected data leaks against four employees of the local branch of neighboring Serbia’s NIS Petrol. The company is majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft. Organized crime prosecutors said late Monday that police raided the company’s offices in the

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say the prisons chief in Indian-controlled Kashmir has been killed as India’s powerful home minister arrived in the disputed Himalayan region on a three-day visit. They say the body of Director-General of Prisons Hemant Kumar Lohia bore multiple wounds and was found at his friend’s home in the southern city

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says it’s giving its highest award to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to accept more than 1 million refugees — mostly from Syria — into Germany, despite some criticism both at home and abroad. Matthew Saltmarsh, spokesman for the U.N.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian officials say at least 21 trainee mountaineers are reported missing after getting trapped in an avalanche in northern India. Police in Uttarakhand state say a group of 29 people was hit by an avalanche on a mountain peak located in the Gangotri range of the Garhwal Himalayas. The state police