Month: April 2023

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped to 9.9 million in February, fewest since May 2021  and a sign that the job market may be starting to cool, which would be welcome news for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve. The Labor Department said that vacancies were down

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — More than 200 protesters in South Africa have demonstrated at the Uganda High Commission against the anti-gay bill recently passed by Ugandan lawmakers. The demonstration on Tuesday was led by South Africa’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters opposition party, which urged Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni not

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania is hosting an international forum aimed at promoting sustainable tourism as a main source of revenue. The United Nations-supported “Future of Environmental and Sustainable Tourism in Albania” forum brought officials from the Western Balkans and southern Europe to the Albanian capital on Tuesday to promote

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent Polish minority activist has been released from custody in Belarus after the authorities dropped criminal charges against her. The Belarusian Prosecutor General’s office announced Tuesday that the criminal investigation against Andzelika Borys has been terminated, all charges against her have been dropped and she

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian businessman who made a daring escape from house arrest in Italy where he was nabbed on a U.S. warrant for breaching Western sanctions has surfaced in Russia. Artyom Uss, the 40-year-old son of the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, said he fled because Italian courts would have bowed to U.S.

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Kelce is living his best life: On the heels of winning the Super Bowl and hosting “Saturday Night Live,” the Kansas City Chiefs superstar tight end will cap his successful string with a music festival this month. The two-time Super Bowl winner announced

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol. The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Foreign veterinarians visited a sickly elephant at a southern Pakistani zoo Tuesday amid widespread concern over her well-being and living conditions, One vet said her chances of surviving are unclear. Noor Jehan was brought to Karachi with three other elephants more than a dozen years ago. Now 17 years old, videos

PARIS (AP) — The French government has approved a key budget bill presented as the country’s biggest military spending spree in more than 50 years. The bill underscores the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The bill foresees 413 billion euros ($450 billion) in military spending for period covering 2024-2030 – up by more than

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant show exposed steel reinforcing bars in its main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing. The findings have triggered concerns about the reactor’s

By RAF CASERT and MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Amsterdam’s Schiphol, one of the top airports in Europe, announced Tuesday it will turn down the noise and limit its pollution in one of the world’s most densely populated areas.  The move immediately received plaudits from environmentalists but not from its biggest customer

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn coach Dan Hurley let the moment envelope him Tuesday on the 40-mile ride from Bradley International Airport back to campus watching the fans who hung signs from highway overpasses and lined the streets leading into Storrs. More than 7,000 people gathered inside Gampel Pavilion, Connecticut’s

LONDON Britain’s privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty on Tuesday for a slew of data protection breaches, including misusing children’s data. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued a fine of 12.7 million pounds ($15.9 million) to the short-video sharing app, which is wildly popular with young people. It’s the latest example of

YASMINE MOSIMANN Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A final agreement has been reached to resume oil exports from Iraq’s northern Kurdish region via a pipeline to Turkey, officials announced Tuesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, announced the deal at a press conference in

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a failed mission this year and increasing difficulty in raising funding for future missions. The company laid off most of its staff on Friday and told the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in a

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet If you earned a bank sign-up bonus or interest, you need to set aside some of it for taxes. Your tax bracket will determine how much you owe on your earnings, which will be between 10%-37% of the total. Avoid stress during tax season by setting aside earnings in advance.

By JARI TANNER and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The selling points of the charming bed-and-breakfast are its century-old buildings, its spacious rooms and its proximity to Russia, a short cross-country ski trip to the east. For Russians, it was place to stay when they came to buy dairy goods and dish soap

NEW DELHI (AP) — An avalanche swept away a group of tourists in the Himalayas in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing at least seven and injuring 11, officials said. Army spokesperson Lt. Col Mahendra Rawat said rescuers pulled out at least 23 tourists from the snow and took them to a hospital for treatment. India’s

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency says five men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting terrorist offenses. SAPO said the case was related to the burning of a Quran in January and that an attack is not imminent. A SAPO spokesperson said Tuesday’s arrests had “international links to violent Islamist extremism.”

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects across the country at the site of current or former coal mines, part of his ongoing efforts to combat climate change. As many as five projects nationwide will be funded