Month: March 2023

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the victims of an earthquake that shook vast swaths of territory in Ecuador and parts…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, his first visit to the…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Before they were rivals to be Chicago’s next mayor, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson both worked…

PARIS (AP) — Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republican party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials have shut down a large funfair in western Germany after a man was stabbed to death on a carousel Saturday night. Police…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the military’s chief of staff to…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A speeding bus has fallen into a roadside ditch in central Bangladesh, leaving at least 19 people dead and more than 20…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says one of its commanders has been killed in Syria in…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Kuwaiti court has annulled the results of a parliamentary election held last year, saying it would reinstate…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Rights activists in the Serb-run part of Bosnia have been assaulted, hours after police banned an LGBT event…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s rainy season brings a bonanza of wild mushrooms, which many rural…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Early projections after Sunday’s presidential election in Montenegro suggest…

By KAT STAFFORD and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan police say up to 100 vehicles were involved in a massive pileup on Interstate 96 during white-out conditions. State…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is holding a massive rally in Mexico City’s main plaza with tens of…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — The state of California and a generic drug manufacturer have entered a 10-year…

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Taylor Swift opened her U.S. concert series with a three-hour tour of her career. Swift kicked off the first concert of the…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Mysterious streaks of light were seen in the sky in the Sacramento area Friday night, shocking St. Patrick’s…

HILL CITY, Kan. (AP) — Military officials say a Kansas man who died in Germany during World War II has been identified and his remains will be…

By JILL COLVIN and MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Top Republicans, including some of Donald Trump’s potential…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria — a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward its southern territories. The rocket fell and exploded…

LONDON (AP) — BBC presenter Gary Lineker has made a low-key return to live TV as he led the broadcaster’s coverage of FA Cup soccer. But he opted…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of Italy’s opposition Democratic Party has blasted a bureaucratic crackdown on LGBTQ…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning about dangerous counterfeit pills being sold at pharmacies in Mexico that…

By GIANFRANCO STARA Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Saturday with thousands of refugees and charity groups hosting them in…

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina school district said a ninth grader walking in a hallway was stopped…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A federal judge is giving Oklahoma and nearly a dozen poultry companies, including the world’s largest poultry…