Month: February 2023

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Witnesses and victims’ relatives have begun giving testimony as Guinea’s stadium massacre trial enters its second phase. A total of 11 defendants are facing murder charges in connection with the 2009 massacre that left 157 people dead. Among them is former coup leader Moussa “Dadis” Camara,

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former executive of the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has reached a settlement with federal securities regulators in a related civil action. Attorneys for William North

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans assuming new positions of leadership in the House and Senate are not waiting for the next funding debate over Ukraine to begin making the case for why the U.S. should continue supporting the war-torn nation. One of their main challenges will be winning over members of

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An official says Taliban intelligence forces killed three Islamic State group militants and arrested one other in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The raid on a residential building overnight targeted IS militants who organized recent attacks in the capital, said Khalil Hamraz, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for Afghanistan’s general

The South Carolina Secretary of State says law enforcement agents confiscated over 600 fake championship rings across four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA from a South Carolina memorabilia store as part of a seizure of counterfeit merchandise. The counterfeit goods could have fetched as much as $15 million at retail. Public Information

The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the ranks of America’s super wealthy grow, the roster of major philanthropists is expanding to include not-so-typical megadonors — among them, a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s main British unionist party has scuttled a new attempt to restore the collapsed Belfast-based Assembly, which has not sat for a year. Lawmakers were called to the Stormont assembly building in an attempt to pass a new organ-donation law, named Daithi’s Law after Daithi MacGabhann,

By TARA COPP Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The first U.S. missile fired at an unidentified aerial object over Lake Huron missed the target and “landed harmlessly” in the water before a second one successfully hit, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. The acknowledgment by Gen. Mark Milley of the errant

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 rattled Romania Tuesday, the second tremor of similar magnitude to shake the country in 24 hours. No serious damage was reported in either case. The quake on Tuesday occurred at 3:16 p.m. in Romania’s southwest Gorj County at a depth of approximately

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Craig Newmark talks about getting focused, even as he is momentarily distracted by his beloved birds flying away from the numerous feeders in his courtyard to go visit some of his Manhattan neighbors. “I’m trying to be a bit more focused, because a lot of

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hospital officials in southern Poland say a Polish mother of seven has successfully given birth to premature quintuplets. The two boys and three girls were born through cesarean section Sunday, in the pregnancy’s 28th week, at the University Hospital in Krakow. Weighing between 710 grams and 1,400 grams (25 ounces and

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people with medical debt on their credit reports fell by 8.2 million — or 17.9% —between 2020 and 2022. That’s according to a new report Tuesday from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. White House officials say in a separate draft report that the

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says a radio station he ordered closed will not be allowed to reopen, spurning pleas and protests from around the world. Voice of Democracy, better known as VoD, was closed on Monday after Hun Sen said it had not properly

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A crash between a passenger bus and a van armored to carry cash in the northern province of Limpopo, South Africa has killed at least 20 people and injured 68, officials have reported. The two vehicles collided head-on along the N1 freeway in the Makhado area on

Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight Croatians facing charges of child trafficking have been granted bail of about $1,000 each by a court in Ndola in central Zambia. The charges allege that on December 7 last year the four couples acted together with a Zambian immigration official to try to traffic four children from

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Air India has unveiled orders for 470 Boeing and Airbus aircraft. India’s largest international airline is racing to tap surging demand for increasingly affordable air travel from the nation’s growing ranks of middle-class consumers. Air India is buying 220 Boeing aircraft valued at $34 billion. It

BANGKOK (AP) — The campaign for this year’s general election in Thailand has not yet officially begun, but aspirants for the prime minister’s job are already angling for auspicious photo ops. If symbolism won elections, one of the main contenders, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, would be a shoo-in. The former general, nicknamed “Big Pom,”

By LAURA UNGAR and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Getting an abortion has long been extremely difficult for Native Americans and has become even tougher since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. New, restrictive state laws add to a series of existing hurdles. There’s a decades-old ban on most abortions at clinics and hospitals run

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some think they know the Tory Burch aesthetic because of the ubiquitous iconic gold metal branding on shoes and handbags, but more recently Burch has been focusing on the unexpected. Her fall/winter 2023 presentation at New York Fashion Week on Monday night featured deconstructed looks in

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs. Red-flag laws, also known as extreme risk protection orders, are intended to temporarily remove guns from people with potentially violent behavior and

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a lawsuit by environmental group Greenpeace that aimed to force automaker Volkswagen to stop selling vehicles with combustion engines by 2030. The civil case echoes several other lawsuits brought by climate campaigners, including one against luxury car manufacturer BMW that was dismissed last week. German news agency

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An appeals court has prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial profiling as a way of selecting people for identity checks at borders. Tuesday’s ruling is a victory for two citizens and rights groups who sued the government. The Hague Court of Appeal overturned

BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it will shoot down any suspected Chinese military object coming close to its shores but has yet to find balloons of the kind that have been brought down over and around American air space. A senior military official told reporters that the self-governing island is on guard for

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet ministers have defiantly dismissed a growing chorus of global condemnation of new Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, instead promising to double down and legalize dozens of wildcat outposts in the occupied territory. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The handprints of military children pressed onto paper hearts are decorating a corner inside the White House and the lawn as first lady Jill Biden celebrates Valentine’s Day. Three large hearts, one with the message, “Reach Out with Open Hearts and Helping Hands this Valentine’s Day,” and

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. The announcement, delivered in a tweeted video, marks an about-face for the ex-Trump