Month: November 2022

LONDON (AP) — The family of Egypt’s most prominent imprisoned activist says he went on “full hunger strike.” The family says Alaa Abdel-Fattah began the strike on Tuesday and plans to stop drinking water as of Sunday, the first day of the global climate summit, or COP27, that Egypt is hosting this month. Abdel-Fattah is

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police say they have few leads in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff dead outside a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley. They say most of the 40 people who attended the party at 810 Billiards & Bowling fled when

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s currency has dropped to its lowest value against the dollar, as nationwide unrest and a stalemate in negotiations to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been weighing heavily on the rial. Traders in Tehran exchanged the rial at 338,000 to the dollar on Tuesday, up from

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Andrea Campbell’s personal history is a tale of perseverance. When she was a child, Campbell’s father was sent to prison for eight years. Her mother died in a car accident on the way to visit him, forcing Campbell and her brothers to live with relatives and in

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have revoked the licenses of two pharmaceutical companies to produce syrup-type medicines following the deaths of 159 children due to acute kidney injury. The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency says it found that the companies had changed suppliers of propylene glycol, a component of

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and STANLEY CHOE Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The political fight is only getting fiercer over whether it’s financially wise or “woke” folly to consider a company’s impact on climate change, workers’ rights and other issues when making investments. Republicans from North Dakota to Texas are ramping up their criticism

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up

HELSINKI (AP) — Police say that two people have died and one person has been seriously injured in a helicopter crash in central Norway. Norwegian police tweeted that “search and rescue has been launched” after an alert received Tuesday morning about a helicopter accident just outside the town of Verdal.  Police later confirmed that two

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A new campaign in France allows young children to flag abusive attacks by simply dropping letters in easily accessible mailboxes across the country, for experts to assess. And the results have led to several police investigations, while giving a rare and shocking snapshot of the scale of

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Shock and anger have been supplanted by grief as families and friends mourn the 134 lives lost when a suspension bridge collapsed in the western Indian city of Morbi. It was one of the country’s worst disasters in years. The pedestrian bridge’s failure while it was

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Once people land a job with a competitive benefits package, it’s easy for some to forget to make the most of it. This period of high inflation may be a good time for employees to assess and take advantage of their benefits. That could look like using learning stipends, maxing

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary respiratory virus called RSV that fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall. The preliminary results buoy hope that after decades of failure and frustration, vaccines against RSV may finally be getting close. Pfizer announced

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — BP’s earnings have more than doubled in the third quarter as the London-based energy giant benefited from high oil and natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. BP said Tuesday that underlying replacement cost profit jumped to $8.15 billion from $3.32 billion in the same period

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A tropical storm and absences of VIP guests are casting a shadow over a financial conference meant to help Hong Kong restore its image as a financial hub and destination for business travel. The first major conference since the city lifted COVID-19 quarantine restrictions was due

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported its quarterly profit through September rose 24% on healthy demand for its music and movies. That prompted the Japanese entertainment and electronics giant to raise its annual sales and profit forecasts. Tokyo-based Sony’s July-September profit totaled 264 billion yen, or $1.8 billion, up

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden has lashed out at Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Donald Trump incarnate,” zeroing in on a potential 2024 GOP presidential contender as he campaigns for Democrats facing uphill fights in next week’s midterm election. Biden’s trip to Florida

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is reinforcing its military with an annual fall draft of 120,000 men. Russian military officials have assured that conscripts to be called up starting Tuesday will not be sent to fight in Ukraine. However, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said the Russian

By JUWON PARK and DAVID RISING Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The narrow street in Seoul’s popular Itaewon neighborhood was already packed with people celebrating Halloween as high school student Eunseo Kim and her friend pushed themselves into the crowd. Lines of people waiting for their faces to be painted or to get

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is blaming years of deforestation for a deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community amid last week’s torrential rains set off by a storm that has left more than 130 people dead across the country. The president said he noticed during

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard is searching for dozens of migrants reported missing after the overloaded sailboat they were on capsized and sank in rough seas off an island near Athens. The incident overnight was the latest deadly shipwreck involving migrant boats in Greek waters. Ten survivors, all

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The decorative candles Yaroslav Vedmid bought more than a year ago were never meant to be lit, but the dried wax that now clings to them attests to how they’ve been used almost nightly — a consequence of power cuts across Ukraine. Seated at the dinner

CHICAGO (AP) — As many as 15 people were injured in a drive-by shooting, including three children, in the city’s Garfield Park neighborhood on Halloween night, Chicago police said. According to WLS-TV, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said there are three juvenile victims: a 3-year-old, an 11-year-old and a teenager who may be 13 years

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were temporarily blocked from leaving as part of virus testing the city government said extended to 439,000 people. Walt Disney Co. and the city government said the park closed Monday for virus testing of staff and visitors. They gave no details of

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Days after more than 150 Halloween revelers died in South Korea’s deadliest crowd surge, a quiet but wrenching reminder of the disaster remained Tuesday: Hundreds of abandoned shoes have been laid out in neat rows in a badminton court in the capital, Seoul. Police have

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s election on Tuesday, the country’s fifth since 2019, largely pits familiar faces against one another in a tight race. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now the opposition leader, is hoping to return to power and replace his main rival, interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday ahead of a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on an interest rate increase to curb inflation. Oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel and U.S. futures were also higher. Stocks ended lower on Wall Street after an unexpectedly