Month: January 2023

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and Belarus have launched joint air force drills in an exercise that underlines close defense ties between the allies amid the…

By SOPHIA TULP Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Debt from holiday spending and other end-of-year costs often comes due in January, and with rising interest rates,…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia who are among…

KASINDI, Congo (AP) — Islamic extremists have claimed responsibility for a weekend bombing of a church in eastern Congo. Authorities say the attack…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a gunman dressed as a lawyer shot and killed a prominent attorney inside a courtroom in northwestern Pakistan.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will block a law designed to make it easier for people in Scotland to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given the Socialist Party a mandate to form a new government in a last attempt to avoid the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara,…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Several relatives of the massive 2020 explosion at Beirut’s port have showed up to answer…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal say a bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Mail has asked customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations until further notice as it tries to…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The four-day event celebrating African musicians across the continent culminated Sunday…

By ELENA BECATOROS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As a crowd of thousands chanted “Long live the king” and…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say that a man has died after crashing a sedan car into Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. Images from the scene show…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed for the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The major political group embroiled in a massive European Union corruption scandal will seek this…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his nation’s efforts to be…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’…

By TRISNADI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has begun the trial of five men charged with…

SYDNEY (AP) — A 10-year-old Australian boy who was critically injured two weeks ago when two helicopters collided, killing four people, has woken…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Europe and Asia on Monday ahead of China’s release of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A report says companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity…

By ANISH BHATTARAI, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Sam Hubbard returned Tyler Huntley’s fumble 98 yards for a tiebreaking touchdown in the fourth…

BEIJING (AP) — A massive explosion at a chemical plant in northeastern China has killed at least five people and left eight missing. More than 30…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — People protested outside a Memphis police station over a man’s death after a confrontation with police officers during…

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty group Oxfam says companies making big profits as inflation surges should face windfall…