Month: March 2023

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister became the first ally in Prime Minister Benjamin…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says two soldiers were wounded, one severely, in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank, the latest in…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia, the presidential…

PRAGUE (AP) — Emil Bocek, the last living Czech pilot who fought the Nazis while serving with Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II,…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.N. inspectors visiting southern Libya found drums containing natural uranium reported missing earlier…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Xavier López, a Mexican children’s comic better known by his stage name “Chabelo,” has died at 88, President Andrés…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Canada has pledged to step up spending to improve water quality in the Great…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older…

By GARY FIELDS and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The West’s steady criticism of Hungary on democratic and cultural issues makes the…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell says he’ll run for governor in 2024.…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday accepted a resignation request from a German bishop who asked to step…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has officially accepted his…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will try to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen say they are imposing severe restrictions on U.N. and other…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they have arrested a 61-year-old man after three people were wounded in a hand grenade and knife attack in Berlin.…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed fighters are on alert in eastern Syria, a day after U.S.…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued an online archive over its scanning of…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany and the European Union say they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the…

By YASMINE MOSIMANN Associated Press MUQDADIYAH, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi province of Diyala has seen a spike in bloody attacks over the past month…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi says he was expelled from Parliament because he has…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A veteran corporate lawyer has been shot dead in Myanmar’s biggest city by self-proclaimed urban…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because it’s the only time there is…