Month: April 2023

The Associated Press Protesters who have blocked the road leading from Armenia to an ethnic Armenian region within Azerbaijan for four months say they will end their actions because Azerbaijan has established a checkpoint at the start of the road. The blockage of the so-called Lachin Corridor impeded food supplies to the region and aggravated

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government’s antitrust case against it. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Friday that the lawsuit alleging Google wields monopolistic power in the world of online advertising can proceed in its entirety. Her ruling is

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was 1977, and Andy Warhol was at work on his “Athletes” series, portraits of top sports personalities who, he felt, were gaining cultural prominence just like “the movie stars of yesterday.” One of them was then the star running back of the Buffalo Bills:

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The number of applications for visas used in the technology industry soared for a second straight year, raising “serious concerns” that some are manipulating the system to gain an unfair advantage, authorities said Friday. There were 780,884 applications for H-1B visas in this year’s computer-generated lottery,

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s governor signed four gun control bills Friday, following the lead of other states struggling to confront a nationwide surge in violent crime and mass shootings, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded Second Amendment rights. Before the ink was even dry on

ROME (AP) — Italy on Friday returned to Turkish authorities a funerary stele, dating from the second century and carrying a loving inscription to the dead woman’s spouse, after investigation determined that it was illegally excavated from southeastern Turkey. Italy’s specialized Carabinieri paramilitary police art squad said it had determined after extensive investigation that the

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has announced the launch of a gold-backed digital currency in a bid to stabilize its faltering dollar. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gov. John Mangudya said Friday that the gold tokens will start circulating on May 8. He said they will be “fully backed” by the

By DASHA LITVINOVA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have cracked down on more human rights groups, ordering one to shut down and raiding the homes of advocates from another. Police on Friday searched the homes of three lawyers with the rights group Team Against Torture. On Thursday, a court

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Friday to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries. President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar panel installations in the U.S., a key part of his climate agenda. The 221-202 House vote sends the measure to

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — FBI agents fatally shot a man who barricaded himself inside a Minneapolis home for several hours and livestreamed negotiations with officers as they tried to convince him to surrender. A federal affidavit released Thursday night identified the man killed as 33-year-old Chue Feng Yang of St. Paul, who also went by the

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Scholars and historical institutions from around the world are coming to the defense of a Polish researcher. The scholar, Barbara Engelking, is under fire from her country’s authorities after claiming that Poles could have done more to help Jews during the Holocaust. Engelking said during a

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has urged the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to work together to eliminate terrorism and ensure accountability for those who aid or fund such activities. India’s Defense Ministry says he told SCO defense ministers in New Delhi that any kind

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces shot and killed a teenager in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian media say the shooting on Friday came during confrontations between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinians in a village near the town of Bethlehem. The ministry identified the teenager as 16-year-old Mustafa Sabah.

By CARLA BRIDI and FABIANO MAISONNAVE BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor’s administration. Lula’s

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — 6lack was on a hot streak, dishing out Grammy-worthy work and being featured on songs with music’s elite including Elton John, Calvin Harris and J Cole. But while the singer-rapper was riding high, he neglected one important element: His mental health. As a result,

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says three soldiers and seven militants were killed in three separate overnight attacks in the country’s volatile northwest. The attacks late on Thursday night took place in Lakki Marwat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The military said in a statement on Friday that all three

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police in Minneapolis are searching for a man suspected of setting fires that damaged two mosques earlier this week. Jackie Rahm Little was charged with second-degree arson for one of the fires that rattled Minnesota’s Muslim community. The Star Tribune reports that criminal complaint does not mention possible motives, but Muslim leaders

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two local journalists have been killed in Haiti over the past couple of weeks as rampant gang violence has gripped the capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. The Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday that radio reporter Dumesky Kersaint was shot in mid-April, and journalist Ricot Jean was found

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state TV footage shows how masked Iranian navy commandos conducted a helicopter-borne raid to seize a U.S.-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The TV aired the footage on Friday. The capture took place on Thursday. The taking of the Turkish-managed, Chinese-owned Advantage Sweet represents the latest

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Key measures of prices and wages remained high in March, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year in its drive to defeat high inflation. An index that is closely followed by the

GENEVA (AP) — Experts working with the United Nations have denounced reports of human rights violations including abduction, deportation and enforced disappearances against ethnic minorities in Russian-occupied Crimea. The experts on Friday called on Moscow to do more to protect the rights of Tatars and other ethnic minorities there. The Committee on the Elimination of