Month: January 2023

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s Parliament is demanding that the country’s government renegotiate the energy part of an EU-funded…

LONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket’s upper…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Love her or loathe her, Barbie has been transformed again, this time into a version for children…

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers U.S. air travel has returned mostly to normal, a day after a computer system that sends safety…

BY MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — David Byrne’s “American Utopia” may have gone from Broadway but the Talking Heads…

By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — A year ago, Jeff Cohen and three others survived a hostage standoff at their Reform…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has kicked off her reelection campaign. The…

LONDON (AP) — Members of the royal family appeared in public Thursday for the first time since the publication of Prince Harry’s explosive…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest level in 15 weeks as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A little over a year after being celebrated at the Kennedy Center, Joni Mitchell will return to Washington for another lifetime…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern…

MACCLESFIELD, England (AP) — A soccer team in England’s eighth tier has granted its main striker a period of leave so he can appear on the new…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The beginning of the end of Europe’s dependency on China for precious rare earth…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s army chief says the border situation with China is stable but unpredictable after a…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by the country’s former…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals ended a three-day strike Thursday after…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian government minister says the country will take legal action against the…

By STEVE PEOPLES, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TAVERNIER, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted illegal…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Malian army says 14 soldiers have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in coordinated…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Memphis plans to retire the jersey of former basketball player Lorenzen Wright during a game next month,…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former top Israeli legal officials have spoken out against sweeping changes to the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos…

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require authorization before the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases…