Month: March 2023

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida’s arm in the Arabian Peninsula says two of its operatives were killed by a drone strike in central Yemen. The announcement was made in a five-page obituary posted Sunday on militant websites typically used by the extremist group. It says the group’s media chief was

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the U.K. in small boats across the English Channel from ever settling in the country. The government said a bill that’s expected to be announced Tuesday will bar asylum claims by anyone who

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO-member Denmark’s Defense Ministry has banned its employees from having TikTok on their work phones as a cybersecurity measure. The Chinese-owned video-sharing app faces intensifying scrutiny from Europe and the U.S. over security and data privacy amid worries it could be used to promote pro-Beijing views or sweep up users’ information.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A landslide caused by torrential rain has killed at least 11 people and left dozens of others missing on an island in Indonesia’s remote Natuna regency. Disaster officials say tons of mud fell from surrounding hills onto houses in Serasan village in Natuna. They say rescuers have recovered at least 11

MADRID (AP) — A ransomware cyberattack on one of Barcelona’ s main hospitals has crippled the center’s computer system and forced the cancellation of 150 nonurgent operations and up to 3,000 patient checkups. The attack Sunday on the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona shut down computers in the facility’s laboratories, emergency room and the pharmacy at

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hoda Kotb returned to NBC’s “Today” show on Monday after spending a few weeks tending to her 3-year-old daughter, Hope. “My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Hoda said at the top

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia on charges including conspiring to overthrow the government. Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures were tried in their absence in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press The death toll rose to two on Monday following a stampede at a rap concert in Rochester, New York, that authorities said may have been triggered by unfounded fears of gunfire. The Memphis rap stars GloRilla and Finesse2tymes had finished performing Sunday night at Rochester’s Main Street Armory when something

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A six-party alliance has nominated the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters. The alliance picked Kemal Kilicdaroglu, hours after a key

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ever-worsening power crisis — putting homes and businesses without electricity for up to 10 hours per day — is strangling Africa’s most developed economy. President Cyril Ramaphosa hopes that by creating a new Cabinet post, electricity minister, his government will be able to curb the

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian health authorities say that 2.8 million of expired COVID-19 doses will be destroyed this year in addition to 2.3 million doses that have already been scrapped. The country of 6.5 million has the lowest vaccination rate in the EU with only 30 percent of the population having basic immunization. Health

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Many people don’t realize that divorced spouses can claim Social Security benefits based on their ex’s earnings record, as long as the marriage lasted at least 10 years. But the rules can be tricky and can differ, depending on whether your former spouse is dead or alive. (Spoiler alert: They

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he ordered police to crack down on illegal firearms and private armies and described as “terrifying” the weekend shootings that killed a provincial governor and eight others. The attack on Negros Oriental provincial Gov. Roel Degamo at his home on

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is vowing to hold onto Bakhmut as Russian forces encroach on the devastated eastern city. The Kremlin has sought to capture it for six months at the cost of thousands of lives. Less than a week ago, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say three people were killed and a fourth was hospitalized after a shooting during a suspected home invasion in suburban Chicago. Police in Bolingbrook, Illinois, say officers responded to the home around 8:15 p.m. Sunday. A man, a woman and a girl had been fatally shot and another woman who

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s administrative watchdog is trying to find out how a top transport official was permitted to fly to Qatar with tickets paid for by the government there. European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly’s inquiries come as a major corruption scandal linked to the Gulf state roils the EU parliament. In a letter

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Recovery crews in northern Greece cleared the final sections of wreckage from a deadly train collision from the tracks on Monday, as protests and political fallout from the country’s worst ever rail disaster continued. Heavy construction machinery was used to move remaining parts of shattered rail cars at Tempe,

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it deposited $5 billion into the Turkish central bank. The move on Monday will likely help Ankara firm up its long-weakening currency, the lira, after last month’s massive earthquake. The statement offered no details on how the cash would be used

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire and filled the cabin with smoke. WSVN-TV reports a Southwest Airlines flight from José Martí international Airport in Havana to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Sunday afternoon returned

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s center-right Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has won reelection. Kallas is one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine. Her Reform Party overwhelmingly won the Baltic country’s general election on Sunday. A far-right populist challenger lost seats in vote that focused on national security and the