Month: December 2022

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 100 people have been killed and dozens injured on Tuesday by widespread floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde said officials are still searching for more bodies. Some 12 million people live in the 24

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 34 Haitian migrants abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico. It is the second such incident in less than a month. The Coast Guard said Tuesday that the migrants were found after employees with Puerto Rico’s Department of

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The judge’s verdict on Tuesday followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from

METUCHEN, N.J. (AP) — Defense Department officials say the remains of an Army Air Force sergeant from New Jersey who died during World War II have been positively identified. The Department made the announcement Tuesday. Twenty-one-year-old Staff Sgt. Michael Uhrin of Metuchen was the radio operator of a B-17F Flying Fortress bomber that was flying

CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has called for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all onboard, after he surfaced in U.S. custody earlier this week. American authorities said Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in Barbados has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex. It is the third nation in the conservative Caribbean region to do so this year. The ruling issued Monday by the Barbados High Court is a pivotal moment for activists

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The new CEO of FTX says the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange helped 1,500 Bahamian investors remove $100 million from their accounts while other customers around the world were locked out of the exchange. John Ray III called FTX’s collapse one of the worst business

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A bald eagle shot in Wisconsin has died during surgery to treat its injuries, the Wisconsin Humane Society said Tuesday. Authorities were seeking tips on who may have shot the adult male bird that was found injured Dec. 7 on private property about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Milwaukee. The eagle

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — What’s a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket. It’s about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reaching 40-year highs over the summer, price increases in the U.S. are now steadily easing. Consumer inflation slowed to 7.1% in November from a year earlier and to 0.1% from October, the government said Tuesday. Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation

BERLIN (AP) — Railway workers in Austria are set to get a significant wage increase under a deal to resolve a pay standoff that resulted in a one-day strike last month. Labor union vida and employers reached the agreement on Tuesday after several rounds of talks on pay for some 50,000 employees of about 65

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The pandemic disrupted our traditions, practices and pursuits. It altered how we mark milestones, what we do with our time, what’s important in routines. It replaced old with new, a kind of new that just might stick. People dusted off musical instruments and are still playing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal arising from a murder-for-hire ordered by the onetime leader of a violent international crime ring. The justices said they will review the case of Adam Samia, who is serving a life sentence for killing a real estate broker in the Philippines. Samia

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government wants to help working parents juggle the responsibility of raising children with their jobs by giving them more time off for emergencies and those long summer breaks from school. The government on Tuesday presented the draft of a new “family law” that would increase the right to paid leave from

By The Associated Press The producers of the Tony Awards have set June 11 for the show that celebrates the best of Broadway and are setting it in a new location, more than a hundred blocks north of the theater district. The telecast will be broadcast live from the lush and elegant United Palace in

BERLIN (AP) — A key figure in a massive German tax evasion case has been convicted of three counts of tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in prison. The state court in Bonn convicted German lawyer Hanno Berger on Tuesday in connection with alleged crimes between 2007 and 2011. The 72-year-old, a former German

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mississippi State’s Mike Leach was one of the most influential football coaches of this or any generation. His boundless curiosity and fascination for people, places and things made him famous beyond the field, a unique character in sports. Leach, who helped revolutionize football

LONDON (AP) — Police say the death toll in an explosion and fire at an apartment building on the English Channel Island of Jersey has risen from five to seven. Two people remained unaccounted for. The blast, which took place early on Saturday morning, destroyed a three-storey apartment block building in St. Helier, the self-governing

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Forget Croatia’s forthcoming historic change of currency, or joining European Union’s travel-free zone. The World Cup semifinal against Argentina is all that most Croats are thinking about. With hours left before Tuesday’s decisive match in Qatar, workers removed Christmas and New Year decorations from a central

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Dusty Baker finally got his elusive championship with the Houston Astros, garnering his first World Series ring in 25 years as a manager in one of the most memorable moments of the year in sports. Baker won a World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a player, but

The Associated Press Shares of Merck and Moderna jumped early Tuesday after the drugmakers said a potential skin cancer vaccine they are developing using the same technology behind COVID-19 preventive shots did well in a mid-stage study. The drugmakers said a combination of the vaccine and Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda led to a statistically significant improvement

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European affairs ministers from the 27 EU nations have endorsed a recommendation from the bloc’s executive arm to grant Bosnia candidate member status. Despite continuing criticism of the way the Balkan nation is run, it’s a significant step toward the wealthy club for Bosnia. Member countries approved

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s divisive justice minister has narrowly survived a confidence vote in parliament. Zbigniew Ziobro is the author of controversial judicial changes that led the European Union to block billions of euros to the Central European country, spurring the opposition to seek his ouster. Unseating him required

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An Atlantic storm has slammed into the Iberian peninsula, dumping heavy rain on Portugal and Spain and drawing a line under the severe drought that had gripped the two countries for most of this year. The storm caused widespread flooding Tuesday, especially in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, which lies on the

By LEE KEATH Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Let’s be clear: They definitely wanted beer. So a group of guys from Nottinghamshire, England – veterans of boozy soccer matches back home — fumed when they discovered no beer would be sold until halftime of the Brazil-Croatia game at the main Doha fan zone, one