Month: February 2023

By RISKA MUNAWARAH and YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) — A boat carrying 71 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims fleeing from refugee camps in Bangladesh has landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Fifteen-year-old Shorif Uddin, who was on the boat with his parents, says two or three people died while they were at

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers danced in the streets of Cologne, Duesseldorf, Bonn and other cities and towns across the Rhineland Thursday as they celebrated the traditional start of Carnival in Germany. Dressed up in bright colors and creative costumes, they sang loudly and swayed to familiar

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent “in another two weeks, tops” after months of seeking doses. The acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the doses will go first to countries with

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The 2018 Olympics without NHL stars offered a glimpse of things to come for players who hadn’t yet reached the best hockey league in the world. Five years later, Kirill Kaprizov is starring for Minnesota. Wild teammate Jordan Greenway played on the U.S. team with Seattle’s Ryan Donato. Finnish

ANKARA (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is urging Turkey to ratify the applications of Finland and Sweden to join the military organization. He says the Nordic neighbors have done enough to satisfy Ankara’s demands that they crack down on extremism. Stoltenberg also condemned the burning of the Muslim holy book at a protest in

BERLIN (AP) — The German news agency dpa is reporting that the websites of several German airports have been disrupted after what may have been a suspected hacker attack. Thursday’s disruptions did not appear to have an immediate impact on air traffic. Nuremberg Airport in southern Germany reported that its online site was receiving so

BEIJING (AP) — China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement issued Thursday at the close of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which the sides affirmed close economic and political ties and their rejection

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The parliament of oil-rich Norway has announced that the Scandinavian country is donating 75 billion kroner ($7.4 billion) to Kyiv as part of a five-year support package, making Norway one of the world’s biggest donors to war-torn Ukraine. In a video address to the 169-seat parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan lawmakers have voted in favor of a new government led by pro-Western economist Dorin Recean, as the country signals a shift to security concerns amid Russia’s ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine. Recean, a 48-year-old economist who served for a year as President

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La Nina – a cooling of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide

By TANYA TITOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — The United Nations has launched a funding appeal for $1 billion to help humanitarian agencies in Turkey assist millions of people affected by last week’s earthquakes. Turkey’s disaster management agency on Thursday raised the number of people killed in the Feb. 6 earthquakes

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — State media say three Iraqi troops have been killed after a suspected Islamic State militant detonated an explosive vest during a security operation. The soldiers were carrying out a raid Thursday on a suspected IS cell in north of Baghdad after receiving intelligence that the militants were

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the world championships on Thursday, a day after her unexpected split with longtime coach Mike Day. Shiffrin overcame a mistake near the end of the race to hold on to her first-run lead. When she saw her

PARIS (AP) — France is bracing for a fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform that is the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Thursday’s protests are expected to be less disruptive that on previous occasions, with the Paris Metro working normally and most schools unaffected. A railway worker

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds. The group, whose members are between the

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence. Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Friday after benchmarks on Wall Street had their biggest drop in four weeks as investors registered disappointment over an inflation reading that came in hotter than expected. Oil prices and U.S. futures also declined after the S&P 500 fell 1.4% Thursday

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister is in Kyiv for the first public visit to Ukraine’s capital by a senior Israeli official since Russia’s invasion last year. But there are no signs that Israel is preparing to significantly increase its modest support for Ukraine or meet Ukrainian requests

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Ukrainian official says Russia is using decoy missiles to fool Ukraine’s air defenses and deploying balloons. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine President Volydymyr Zelenskyy, told The Associated Press that Russia is changing tactics as the invasion approaches its one-year anniversary.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful explosion inside a moving passenger train has killed at least one person and wounded eight others in eastern Pakistan. Thursday’s blast happened in Chichawatni, a district in the eastern Punjab province. District Police Chief Mian Mahboob said officers were investigating whether the explosion was caused by a

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have demolished the home of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank. The home, in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, was demolished in a controlled explosion early Thursday. The Israeli military said the demolition was carried out after an Israeli court rejected

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as implicit criticism of the movement’s reclusive supreme leader. The Taliban leadership has been opaque since the

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The outgoing president of Paraguay, whose country is one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies, has spoken of his admiration for the island democracy while on a state visit to Taipei. Mario Abdo Benitez was welcomed with an honor guard on Thursday as he walked alongside

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two sheriff’s deputies who have been suspended for five days for their role in the arrest of Tyre Nichols failed to keep their body cameras activated after they went to the location where Nichols had been beaten by five Memphis police officers, officials said late Wednesday.

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday at the toll left by a freight train derailment in Ohio, where toxic chemicals spilled or were burned off, leaving the stench of fresh paint nearly two weeks later. EPA Administrator Michael

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A special grand jury investigating efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia says it believes “one or more witnesses” committed perjury and urged local prosecutors to bring charges. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should “seek appropriate indictments

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the U.S. passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon’s intrusion into U.S. airspace. The statement issued Thursday by the National People’s Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee repeated Beijing’s insistence that the balloon was an unmanned

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the war rages on in Ukraine, the United States is doing more than supporting an ally. It’s learning lessons — with an eye toward a possible clash with China. No one knows what the next U.S. major military conflict will be or whether the U.S. will

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake has rocked a central Philippine province, sending people out of their homes at night, prompting dozens of patients to be evacuated from a hospital and causing minor damage to a coliseum and business establishments. Officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage from the