Month: March 2023

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew in the capital Tirana, calling for the prime minister’s resignation for alleged corruption and mishandling of the small Balkan nation’s economy. Demonstrators gathered in front of the main government building in pouring rain Friday, chanting slogans and bearing

By KEN MILLER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press A large storm system took aim at the Northeast on Friday, threatening heavy snow and coastal flooding after heavy winds and possible tornadoes damaged homes and buildings, left thousands without power and caused 10 deaths in a wide swath of the South and Midwest. Three people were

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel to France and Germany for his first state visits since becoming monarch, Buckingham Palace said Friday, underscoring Britain’s efforts to build bridges with its European neighbors following years of strained relations caused by Brexit. Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, are set

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of airlines including KLM, Delta and easyJet say they are suing the Dutch government over its plans to reduce the number of flights from Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport. The government said last year it was seeking a “new balance” between the economic benefits provided by Schiphol and its

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has agreed to plead guilty to U.S. foreign corruption violations and pay more than $206 million for breaking a deal with the Justice Department over charges of bribery and falsifying records in countries from China to Kuwait. The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that the Stockholm-based company

By MAJDI MOHAMMED and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Protesters say the Israeli military has fired stun grenades and tear gas to block hundreds of Israeli left-wing activists from staging a solidarity rally in a Palestinian town that was set ablaze by radical Jewish settlers earlier this week. Activists from Israeli

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police say one person has been killed and at least five others were injured when a hand grenade exploded at the entrance of a courthouse in Montenegro’s capital. Police spokeswoman Carna Rastoder said the man who detonated the grenade was killed in the explosion. Friday’s blast was preceded by several hoax

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has denied it has exported arms to Ukraine after Moscow demanded to know how its Balkan ally delivered thousands of rockets  for its fight against Russia’s invasion. Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, no weapons have been exported from Serbia

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi was given preliminary charges of rape. The prosecutors office in Nanterre says Hakimi was questioned by investigators probing rape allegations on Thursday. He was then given preliminary charges and placed under judicial supervision. A 24-year-old woman says she was raped by Hakimi on Saturday

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigeria Police Force says at least 12 people were killed on Friday in an explosion near an illegal oil refinery site in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta region, with the casualty figure expected to rise as the fire raged on for hours. Locals told The

BERLIN (AP) — The Swiss government says Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine. The Swiss Defense Ministry said Friday that Germany’s defense and economy ministers wrote on Feb. 23 to Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd, setting out

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Swedish presidency of the European Union’s ministers’ council says the adoption by EU member countries of new carbon dioxide emission standards for cars and vans has been postponed amid opposition from Germany. The vote initially scheduled for next week will take place at a “later council meeting” on a date yet

By VASSILIS KOMMATAS, GIANNIS PAPANIKOS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KATERINI, Greece (AP) — The first funeral for victims of a deadly Greek rail disaster has been held as families began receiving the remains of their loved ones following a harrowing identification process. Authorities in Greece say checks of all the human remains recovered so

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has met with Indigenous Sami reindeer herders after more than a week of protests against wind farms that activists say endanger their way of life, and has acknowledged that there are “ongoing human rights violations.” The protesters, many of them teenagers, said they will pause

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of climate protesters have gathered in Berlin and other German cities to demand tougher government action against global warming. They especially want the government to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. A small pro-business party that controls Germany’s Ministry of Transport has pushed back

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court on Friday sentenced Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to 10 years in prison, the latest move in a yearslong crackdown on dissent that has engulfed the ex-Soviet nation since 2020. The harsh punishment

KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin finished in fourth place in a World Cup super-G and missed out on a record-tying 86th career victory. Shiffrin was the ninth starter and trailed leader Elena Curtoni of Italy by 0.15 seconds. The race was eventually won by Cornelia Huetter. The Austrian edged Curtoni by a

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — The freshly exhumed remains of three men lie in black body bags on the edge of the small cemetery in a town not far from Ukraine’s capital, waiting to be taken to a morgue. None has yet been identified. Ukrainian authorities are still unearthing people who

BRUSSELS (AP) — Hundreds of tractors driven by angry farmers protesting a plan to cut nitrate have converged on Brussels. Police said more than 2,700 vehicles attended Friday’s protest, causing major traffic disruption in Belgium’s capital city. Disruptions could last until the end of the day and police recommended people use public transportation instead of

WASHINGTON (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War and became known as the Pentagon Papers, says he has terminal cancer and months to live. Ellsberg has posted on his Facebook page that doctors diagnosed the 91-year-old with inoperable pancreatic cancer on Feb.

By JAMES POLLARD and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial got a chance to see for themselves the rural hunting estate where his wife and son were killed. Crime scene visits by juries are relatively rare. The disgraced South Carolina attorney was convicted of

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday for a six-month mission, after overcoming trouble with one of the capsule’s docking hooks. The SpaceX capsule and its four astronauts had to wait 65 feet (20 meters) from the orbiting lab, as

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JABA, West Bank (AP) — The stuttering blasts of M-16s shattered the quiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by barley fields and olive groves. Young Palestinian men in Jaba once wanted to farm, residents say, but now, more and more want to fight. Last week, dozens of them, wearing