Month: December 2022

OMAR AKOUR Associated Press DEAD SEA, Jordan (AP) — Leaders from the Middle East and Europe have gathered in Jordan on bolstering security and…

By COLLEEN BARRY and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — An Italian court had delayed until next month a hearing into whether to hand…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Tens of thousands of jubilant Moroccans have welcomed home their national soccer team…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has called the refusal of Sweden’s top court to extradite a…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Show up at a border crossing with Mexico and ask a U.S. official for asylum? Sign up online? Go…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest…

Associated Press Amazon has agreed to make major changes to its business practices to settle antitrust investigations that found the ecommerce giant…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that a 45-year-old nuclear reactor can continue to operate, rejecting…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet Meal kit subscriptions shot up in popularity in 2020, but many customers don’t stay past the initial promotional…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sitiveni Rabuka has won a close election in Fiji and is promising change as the South…

By ADAM BEAM and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press RIO DELL, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes and businesses along the Northern California…

By LISA MASCARO, NOMAAN MERCHANT, E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rescuers found a survivor and recovered five bodies from a…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s top court has handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from voting…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Democrats in a Richmond-based congressional district are voting to select a nominee for the seat held by the late…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk and Donald Trump share bestride-the-colossus egos, an incessant desire to be the…

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Security officials say Pakistani special forces raided a police center in a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Musician Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of masked gunmen firing into the air, took to the streets and stores…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have unveiled a $1.7 trillion bill to fund the government. The measure…

By NAT CASTAÑEDA Associated Press VOSS, Norway (AP) — Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing mountaintops. The…

By MORGAN LEE, GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Texas dispatched National Guard troops to the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Several Holocaust survivors are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the streets of Kyiv, Fyodor Dostoevsky is on the way out. Andy Warhol is on the way in.…

By DANIEL POLITI and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A parade to celebrate the Argentine World Cup champions was…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — When Kevin Erickson fires up his 1972 Plymouth Satellite, a faint hum replaces what is normally…

By DAVID PEREDA Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress tentatively endorsed a plan on Tuesday to hold early elections in an attempt…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Wang Yu, hailed by the U.S. as an International Woman of Courage, has already been arrested,…

By DAKE KANG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to…

By RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — After a pair of Islamist bombings rocked the south-central Indian city of Hyderabad in…

By GARANCE BURKE, JOSEF FEDERMAN, HUIZHONG WU, KRUTIKA PATHI and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Biker boss Nick Martin’s murder at a speedway in Perth, Australia, left police a trove…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as…