Month: October 2022

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed and gave all regional governors in Russia emergency powers that open the door for sweeping new restrictions throughout the country. Putin didn’t immediately spell out the steps that would be taken under martial law, but

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for another potentially significant test of the nation’s premier wildlife protection law in

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Florida has seen an increase in cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year driven largely by a surge in the county hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. The state Department of Health reports that as of Friday there have been 65 cases of vibrio vulnificus infections and 11 deaths in Florida this

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany wants to massively expand the country’s charging network for electric cars. It plans to spend 6.3 billion euros ($6.17 billion) over the next three years as it expects more and more drivers to turn from combustion cars to more climate-friendly electric vehicles. The country’s transportation minister

SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government says the slaying of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found inside a plastic box in a Paris building courtyard has left France “profoundly shaken.” Paris prosecutors say a 24-year-old woman who was arrested Saturday in a northeastern suburb of the capital

By SETH BORENSTEIN and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Nations around the world are trying to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, with the world already having warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since then. These small degrees and fractions of a degree represent a global average

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Two senior officials from the Palestinian militant Hamas group have visited the Syrian capital of Damascus for the first time since they were forced to leave the war-torn country a decade ago over backing armed opposition fighters. Wednesday’s visit appears to be a first step toward

By VICTORIA MILKO, FIRDIA LISNAWATI and KATHY YOUNG Associated Press LES, Indonesia (AP) — After diving into the warm sea off the coast of northern Bali, Indonesia, Made Partiana hovers above a bed of coral, holding his breath and scanning for flashes of color and movement. Hours later, exhausted, he returns to a rocky beach,

By LEON YIN and AARON SANKIN/The Markup The Markup Having a fast internet connection at home has become a near-requirement for many Americans, especially with the rise of remote education and working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But an investigation by The Markup has found that internet service providers often offer drastically different

By LEON YIN and AARON SANKIN/The Markup The Markup A couple of years into the pandemic, Shirley Neville had finally had enough of her shoddy internet service. “It was just a headache,” said Neville, who lives in a middle-class neighborhood in New Orleans whose residents are almost all Black or Latino. “When I was getting

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A World Health Organization official says experimental Ebola vaccines will be deployed in Uganda in about “two weeks.” The East African country is carrying out tough preventive measures that include a lockdown in the Ebola-hit areas. WHO’s representative in Uganda told The Associated Press that Wednesday

By BRIAN MELLEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The father of Kristin Smart, the California Central Coast college student who vanished from campus 26 years ago, says a murder conviction hasn’t ended the “agonizingly long journey” to find the truth about his daughter. “Without Kristin, there’s no joy or happiness in

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition Congress party has elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its new president in a contest in which the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has led the party for more than two decades, did not compete. The party has struggled to regain support since being routed by Prime

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss described herself as “a fighter and not a quitter” Wednesday as she faced a hostile opposition and fury from her own Conservative Party over her botched economic plan. Within hours of the defiant statement, her government was teetering on the verge of

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A bombing near the front gate of Myanmar’s main prison for political detainees has killed at least eight people, including visitors and prison personnel. The military confirmed that five visitors, including a 10-year-old girl, and three prison staff were killed, and 13 visitors and five prison personnel

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s domestic security agency on Wednesday took over investigations of drone sightings near key infrastructure sites hours after the airport in the country’s second-largest city briefly closed due to area residents spotting at least one drone nearby. Bergen Airport, which is near Norway’s main naval

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government says the World Bank estimates that this summer’s record-breaking floods have caused $40 billion in damages in this impoverished country. The figure is $10 billion more than the government’s earlier estimate. Pakistan was already facing a serious financial crisis before the heavy monsoon rains hit

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will discuss with his Japanese counterpart strengthening their bilateral defense and security partnership when Fumio Kishida visits Perth this week. Kishida will stay from Friday to Sunday with the leaders’ annual meeting Saturday. Kishida and Albanese will consider further

BEIJING (AP) — While Xi Jinping is primed to receive a third term as head of China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday, it is unknown who will join him for the next five years on the party’s leading bodies, the Central Committee and the Politburo. Analysts will scrutinize who joins, and who leaves, for any

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation’s poorest residents. The Office for National Statistics said

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired about 100 more artillery shells toward the sea Wednesday in response to South Korean live-firing drills at border areas as the rivals accuse each other of dialing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula with weapons tests. The drills conducted by both sides

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week have complicated Israel’s balancing act between Russia and the West. Israel has stayed largely on the sidelines since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February so as not to damage its strategic relationship with the Kremlin.

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after Wall Street benchmarks fell, reversing course after two days of gains. Wall Street futures were lower while oil prices were mixed. The pullback Wednesday came as investors reviewed quarterly earnings reports and Treasury yields climbed to multiyear highs,

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The European Union executive is reminding Silvio Berlusconi that Russia “illegitimately” invaded Ukraine. This comes after the former Italian premier was heard on a recording boasting that he had recently reconnected with Russian President Vladimir Putin and exchanged gifts of vodka, wine and “sweet” birthday letters. Berlusconi

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Mike Pence aide is sidestepping previous support for tighter voting restrictions and doubts about the 2020 presidential vote as he tries to avoid turbulence in his campaign for what would typically be a little-noticed election win by a Republican seeking Indiana’s top elections office. Since

By ANWAR SALEM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press HAYS, Yemen (AP) — An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered with sores. She can barely open her eyes. Hafsa Ahmed is about 2. About a dozen other children in the red-brick hospital in this southern