Month: October 2022

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remains historically low even as the U.S. economy slows in the midst of decades-high inflation. Jobless claims for the week ending Oct. 8 rose by 9,000 to 228,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has accused Washington of “Cold War thinking.” The government appealed for efforts to repair strained relations after President Joe Biden released a national security strategy that calls for “out-competing China” and blocking its efforts to reshape global affairs. The foreign ministry also accused Washington

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer When the inevitable hurricanes threaten New Orleans, it’s hard for India Scott to figure where to go. In the city where she was born and raised, she’s stayed in hotels, relief shelters and, during Hurricane Katrina, in the famously overcrowded Superdome. But it is always a gamble choosing where

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — In a story published October 13, 2022, about the killings of two police officers in Bristol, Connecticut, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last time a police officer was fatally shot while on duty in Connecticut. It occurred in 2004, when Newington Officer Peter Lavery was killed by a gunman, not

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s Fascist past and its future governed by a party with neo-fascist origins have come to an emotional head during the first seating of Parliament since general elections last month. Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre, a 92-year-old senator-for-life, presided over the opening session of the upper chamber. Her

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s internet censors have moved quickly to scrub social media posts after reports that banners criticizing the Communist leadership were hung from a busy intersection in Beijing. Images on Twitter, which is blocked in China, showed smoke spiraling up from a fire on an elevated roadway and

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A senior member of the British government has rejected suggestions that Prime Minister Liz Truss should step down after lawmakers from her own party criticized Truss for economic policies that have sparked turmoil on financial markets. Truss was blasted during a stormy and private meeting with Conservative

PARIS (AP) — French gas network operator GRTgaz says it has started conveying gas to Germany via pipeline for the first time, as Berlin strives to diversity its energy sources. GRTgaz said in a statement Thursday the pipeline connecting both countries at the French border village of Obergailbach has begun delivering an initial daily capacity

By SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA Associated Press An Associated Press investigation has found that Russia’s strategy to take Ukrainian orphans and bring them up as Russian is well underway. It’s one of the war’s most explosive issues. The investigation drew on interviews with parents, officials and children in Ukraine and Russia.

By SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA Associated Press Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry. The kids had

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets surged Friday after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by worse-than-forecast inflation numbers. Japan’s market benchmark soared by an unusually wide margin of 3.4%. Hong Kong gained 3.3% and Shanghai also rose. Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose more than $2 per barrel.

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Ms. Foundation for Women’s new Birth Justice Initiative, designed to support grassroots organizations led by Black, Indigenous and other women of color as they advance more equitable birth outcomes in the country, is already making a difference for nonprofits serving pregnant women. Sona Smith, Ms. Foundation’s Birth Justice program

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia has rejected as “absurd” claims by Amnesty International that it is violently mistreating migrants attempting to enter the European Union member country through Belarus. The human rights watchdog wrote in its report released Thursday that Latvian authorities have violently pushed back refugees and migrants, mostly from

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers elected a new president in a key step toward ending a year-long political vacuum. Parliament voted for Abdul Latif Rashid, a former minister, as president on Thursday. The session was threatened after nine rockets targeted the Green Zone, the seat of the country’s government.  The

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hosting a summit to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law. It’s an effort to improve coordination with the mayors and governors who directly account for 90% of the spending. White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu says

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s police say they have found the body of a suspect who allegedly fatally shot two people the previous day in the capital in what some officials are suggesting was a hate crime. Police said Thursday they were investigating but haven’t provided details about the motive of the shooting. Two men

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has accused the U.S. of conducting a “failed policy of destabilization.” Ebrahim Raisi’s statement Thursday came as Iranians in cities nationwide held protests that have snowballed into calls for the downfall of Iran’s rulers. The unrest was sparked by the death of

BEIRUT (AP) — A bus bombing in a suburb of Damascus has killed 18 Syrian soldiers. Syrian state media citing a military source reported that the blast on Thursday also wounded at least 27 others. Similar attacks in past years have killed and wounded dozens of soldiers in government-held parts of the war-torn country. Last

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s secretive Nuclear Planning Group has met as the alliance presses ahead with plans to hold a nuclear exercise next week despite tensions over Russia’s war on Ukraine. Russia is due to hold its own nuclear maneuvers in coming weeks. It comes amid deep concern about President

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — For decades North Korea has threatened to turn enemy cities into a “sea of fire,” even as it doggedly worked on building a nuclear weapons program that could back up its belligerent words. Now, as North Korea conducts another torrid run of powerful weapons tests — and

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press CAPAS, Philippines (AP) — Truck-mounted launchers blasted off rockets and U.S. stealth fighter jets streaked across the northern Philippine sky in a combat drill that marked the latest display of American firepower in a region where Washington has tried to deter what it warns as China’s growing

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other products, says its quarterly profit rose nearly 80% over a year earlier to a record $8.8 billion amid surging demand. Sales rose 48% over a year ago to $19.2 billion. TSMC, headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, makes

NOORIABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a bus fire killed at least 18 flood survivors, including eight children and nine women. The extended family was traveling from Karachi to their hometown of Khairpur Nathan Shah because they heard the floodwaters had receded there. They were among the thousands who moved to Karachi because of

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Two judges on India’s top court have differed over a ban on the wearing of the hijab, a headscarf used by Muslim women, in educational institutions and referred the sensitive issue to a larger bench of three or more judges to settle. Justices Hemant Gupta and

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — With its dozens of “revolving door” governments, Italy might give the impression that carving out new ruling coalitions is quick work. But the process can take weeks, even months. On Thursday, when newly elected lawmakers took their seats, the work of giving the country a new government

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press They show up at the first signs of protest in Iran — men in black, riding motorcycles, often wielding guns or batons. They are members of what’s known as the Basij, paramilitary volunteers who are fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic. The shock troops of the ayatollahs have taken on

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia toddler who was reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead, and she is a suspect in his death, according to police. The Chatham County Police Department tweeted late Wednesday, “We are saddened to report that CCPD and the FBI have notified Quinton Simon’s family

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline says it is repairing damage that caused a leak earlier this week to the main source of crude oil from Russia to Germany. It said Thursday that it wants to resume the pumping of crude oil as soon as possible through the pipeline. The

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies — including Russia — to cut oil production. OPEC announced the cuts on Oct. 5. A delay could have helped reduce the risk of a

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The candidates for Michigan governor have criticized each other’s positions on abortion during their first debate. Republican Tudor Dixon is looking to use Thursday’s primetime debate to narrow her gap with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Dixon is a former conservative commentator endorsed