Month: February 2023

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The price of releasing planet-heating carbon into the atmosphere rose above 100 euros in the European Union for the first time this week. Experts said Wednesday this is a signal that speaks for the bloc’s efforts to make polluting costlier. The EU has laid down a path

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A low credit score can hurt your ability to take out a loan, secure a good interest rate, or increase a credit card spending limit. Some reasons for a low score are out of your control — such as unexpected medical debt or a lack of

By The Associated Press One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. Russia remains excluded from many international sporting events, but that could soon change. Next year’s Paris Olympics are fast approaching and qualifying

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing. The 56-year-old singer will be sentenced Thursday on his convictions last year in Chicago of child pornography

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan are defying a ban on rallies in a commercial area of the city of Lahore, taunting police and asking to be arrested en masse. The protest is part of the ex-premier’s latest campaign

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee says that 305 candidates — 212 individuals and 93 organizations — have been nominated for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline. The very secretive board in Oslo said Wednesday that “who nominates, and who is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is a

By The Associated Press Russia and China showcased their deepening ties Wednesday in a series of meetings closely watched for signs that Beijing might offer stronger support to the Kremlin for its war in Ukraine. The visit by Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, to Moscow comes as the conflict

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails. The company said Wednesday it is bringing the new AI technology to its Bing smartphone app, as well

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Both houses of Russia’s parliament have quickly endorsed President Vladimir Putin’s move to suspend the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States. Officials and lawmakers cast it as an eleventh-hour warning to Washington. Putin declared that Moscow was suspending its participation in the 2010 New

By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A weakened Cyclone Freddy which pummeled Madagascar Tuesday night with heavy rains and strong destructive winds, killing four people, is continuing to wreak havoc in the southwest of the Indian Ocean nation. Freddy battered the western city of Mananjary and left 16,660 people displaced and damaged

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors have dropped their case against a man who had been suspected of involvement in supplying automatic weapons to Islamic State extremists who went on a bloody rampage in Paris in 2015. The Public Prosecution Service said in a statement Wednesday that a lengthy Dutch probe “has not produced

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme Court decision with a simple majority, a law that critics say would severely erode the country’s democratic checks and balances. The “Supreme Court override” bill’s approval in a preliminary vote in the

BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence has strengthened for a fourth consecutive month as managers look past current problems to take a more optimistic view of the months ahead. The Ifo institute said Wednesday that its monthly confidence index rose in February from last month. That was due entirely

By ELIZA HAVERSTOCK of NerdWallet As in-person classes resume around the globe, American high school seniors are increasingly applying to undergrad programs abroad in pursuit of cheaper (or free) tuition and more focused degree programs. But where your wallet is concerned, attending college abroad isn’t automatically the best bet. International student tuition rates and costs

NEW YORK (AP) — Beverly Gage’s J. Edgar Hoover biography “G-Man,” Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name is George Floyd” and Linda Villarosa’s study of racism and its effects, “Under the Skin,” are among the finalists for awards handed out by the Lukas Prize Project. The finalists were announced Wednesday by the Columbia Journalism

MADRID (AP) — The next Latin Grammy Awards gala will be held in southern Spain, leaving the United States for the first time. Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud the regional president of Spain’s Andalusia region made the announcement on Wednesday in Seville. Regional president Juan Manuel Moreno said the awards show would be held

By MUNIR AHED and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the country’s defense minister is in Afghanistan and has met with Taliban officials in an effort to resolve the closure of a key border crossing between the two neighboring states. Khawaja Mohammad Asif’s trip to Kabul and his meeting with Mullah

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Both the Honda CR-V hybrid and Kia Sportage Hybrid have been redesigned for 2023. The CR-V has enjoyed its time as the king of small SUVs, but the Kia Sportage and its new hybrid model are impressive, to say the least. Does it have what it takes to overthrow the CR-V’s

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and AREF TUFAHA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants fired six rockets from the Gaza Strip toward the country’s south early Thursday, hours after an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank triggered a fierce gunbattle in which 11 Palestinians were killed. The rocket attacks, which

BEIJING (AP) — An open pit mine collapsed in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving more than 50 missing, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said people were buried under debris at the mine in Alxa League. It said six were rescued with injuries and

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to restore her citizenship. Shamima Begum was 15 years old when she and two other girls from London joined the

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people. During arguments at the high court several justices underscored that there was no evidence linking Twitter,

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Dutch-flagged container vessel en route from Lithuania to neighboring Latvia caught fire in the Baltic Sea, prompting the 15-strong crew to be evacuated and leaving the vessel to drift in the Gulf of Riga, off the Latvian capital. The JR Shipping company, based in the Dutch port of Harlingen, said

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police in Spain have detained the father of two sisters who were victims of so-called “honor killings” while visiting family in Pakistan. Spain’s National Police confirmed local media reports that the father was taken into custody in the eastern town of Terrassa near Barcelona. He is under investigation for his possible