Month: February 2023

By LORI HINNANT, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KRASNOHORIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Researchers have documented more than 700 attacks against health care facilities and staff a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine. The data was verified by five organizations working in Ukraine and released Tuesday. Residents in the city of Kherson said retreating

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish former defense minister who had publicly claimed that Denmark’s secret service helped U.S. intelligence spy on several European leaders says he has been charged with divulging state secrets. Denmark’s prosecution authority said Tuesday that the country’s justice minister has agreed to the recommendation

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. MOVIES — Adult dramas have generally been having a hard time in theaters in recent months, but one notable exception has been “A Man Called Otto.”

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The main crossing on the Afghan-Pakistan border is shut for the third straight day after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers earlier this week closed the route and exchanged fire with Pakistani border guards. The closure is worrying traders as the Torkham crossing is their key commercial artery. Many

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals. Large chains like Panera and P.F. Chang’s as well as neighborhood hangouts are increasingly experimenting with the subscription

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, has a book deal. The Open Field, a Penguin Random House imprint overseen by Maria Shriver, announced Tuesday that Kinzinger’s

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press The scenic seaside city of Laguna Beach, California, is weighing a plan to ban the sale and public use of balloons. The goal is to curtail the risk of devastating wildfires and eliminate a major source of trash floating near the community’s shores. The Laguna Beach City Council is expected

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico say three people, including a 4-year-old boy, have died after gunmen opened fire at a birthday party. Officials say two other children, ages 9 and 10, were injured in the shooting that occurred Monday night at a public housing complex in the north coastal town

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese panda fans bid teary farewells to their idols Xiang Xiang, “super papa” Eimei and his twin daughters who were sent to China to live in a protected facility in Sichuan province. Hundreds of people who waited outside Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Tuesday took photos, wiped tears

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary says a senior member of a U.S.-based opposition group accused of planning a deadly 2008 mosque bombing has been sentenced to death. Iranian authorities said on Tuesday that Jamshid Sharmahd is the leader of the armed wing of a group advocating the

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Advocacy group Global Citizen will convene political, philanthropic, business and cultural leaders for a thought leadership conference in New York to tackle extreme poverty more quickly. The group announced Tuesday that Global Citizen NOW will be a two-day conference on April 27 co-chaired by Ursula

By BILL BARROW and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Democratic governors in 20 states are launching a network intended to strengthen abortion access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court nixing a woman’s constitutional right to end a pregnancy. The ruling shifted regulatory powers over the procedure to state governments. Organizers, led by California Gov.

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Many frequent travelers amass huge piles of travel points and miles. Yet, unlike saving real money, saving travel rewards is usually a poor financial choice. Points and miles tend to lose value over time, can’t be invested and can even expire. Trying to choose a smart way to redeem points

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has intervened for the third time to crack down on the celebration of the old Latin Mass, a sign of continued friction with Catholic traditionalists. Francis reasserted in a new legal decree published Tuesday that the Holy See must approve new celebrations of the old

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court being argued this week challenge this law. The outcome could reshape the modern internet. Under the U.S.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese startup is planning to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth. In the tour’s unveiling Tuesday, the company said it has developed an airtight two-seat cabin and a balloon capable of rising to

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate czar says Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the EU’s green transition with his war in Ukraine. Frans Timmermans said Tuesday that the  the 27-nation bloc reduced its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Home Depot says it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers. The Atlanta-based home improvement chain said Tuesday that every hourly employee will get a raise starting this month. The investment will also ensure that starting pay is at least $15 per hour

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Treasury Department official says Russia’s mounting battlefield losses are constraining Russia’s ability to wage war on Ukraine. U.S. Treasury Deputy Wally Adeyemo says sanctions and export controls imposed by the U.S. and its allies have degraded Russia’s ability to replace more than 9,000 pieces of

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The wreckage of a small plane carrying two Filipino pilots and two Australian passengers has been identified on one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes. Officials say an aerial search found no sign of those aboard the Cessna 340, which crashed into a gully on the slope of Mayon volcano. It

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — They were led down a staircase into a garage beneath a downtown Atlanta courthouse, where officers with big guns were waiting. From there, they were ushered into vans with heavily tinted windows and driven to their cars under police escort. For Emily Kohrs, these were the moments

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new complex erected on the shores of the Persian Gulf, in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, houses a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue and an Islamic mosque. The Abrahamic Family House offers a concrete, marble and oak manifestation of the

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is advocating for his contested plan to increase the pension eligibility age. Macron visited the Rungis International Market in the southern suburbs of Paris on Tuesday for his first public discussion with French workers since lawmakers started debating the government’s pension-reform legislation earlier this month, prompting series of

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to seek dialogue and compromise after it pushed ahead with a controversial judicial overhaul in a turbulent parliamentary session overnight. President Isaac Herzog said Tuesday it was a “difficult morning” after a late night parliamentary vote