Month: May 2023

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware says he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Carper announced Monday that he will retire when his current term expires in 2024. His announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest for the seat

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say the office of the Lebanese public prosecutor has summoned the country’s embattled central bank governor for questioning. The summons Monday follows an international arrest warrant issued against him in France over corruption charges. Salameh is to answer the summons later this week, although no

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea and the European Union have agreed to increase pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine and condemn North Korea’s ballistic missile tests. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s opposition Move Forward Party, the top vote-getter in last week’s national election, has signed an agreement with seven other parties on a joint platform they hope will lead to the formation of a coalition government in July. The 23-point agreement sidesteps several volatile issues while seeking

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom’s first female astronaut. SpaceX’s chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The four guests will spend just over

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is rejecting criticism that it pushed to weaken existing commitments for phasing out natural gas at a summit of leaders from the Group of Seven major industrialized democracies. Environmental campaigners slammed the leaders’ decision in Japan to back the construction of new infrastructure for liquefied natural gas, a planet-warming

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears. The penalty of 1.2 billion euros is

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman had to carry her baby, missing much of her skull, for months knowing she’d bury her daughter soon after she was born. Another started mirroring the life-threatening symptoms that her baby was displaying while in the womb. An OB-GYN found herself secretly traveling to Colorado

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE CARAUARI, Brazil (AP) — In a remote corner of the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists are trying to succeed where a lack of governance has proved disastrous. They’re managing a stretch of land in a way that welcomes both local people and scientists to engage in preserving the world’s largest tropical forest. The goal

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A house fire in Abu Dhabi has killed six people and injured seven on Monday. The UAE Capital’s Civil Defense say that an investigation is underway to find the cause of the fire which erupted in Al Moazaz area. The UAE has been grappling with a series of recent

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Venmo will officially allow teenagers to open an account with their parents’ permission, the company said Monday, expanding the popular social payments app to a demographic that is likely to embrace it almost immediately. Venmo has been so popular with families even before this announcement

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency warned Monday of a rise in anti-government extremist groups seeking to divide society and topple the government, which receive support by authoritarian states such as Russia. German security agencies have disrupted several plots in recent years by small groups accused

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — On a spring Saturday afternoon, two “hermanos” knelt to pray in the chapel of their Catholic brotherhood of St. Isidore the Farmer, nestled by the pine forest outside this hamlet in a high mountain valley. Fidel Trujillo and Leo Paul Pacheco’s words resounded in New Mexican

SANGER, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers who recovered the body of an 8-year-old girl Sunday were searching for her 4-year-old brother after the siblings were carried away by the current of a California river that was off limits because of high water levels. The Fresno County Sheriff’s office says the children, who weren’t wearing life jackets,

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Swathes of India are bracing for more scorching heat, with New Delhi under a severe weather alert, as extreme temperatures strike parts of the country. Weather officials issued a heat wave alert for seven southern and central states last week and broadened it

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian state news agency on Monday reported that a dissident journalist who was pulled off a flight that was forced to land in the country and was later sentenced to eight years in prison says he has received a presidential pardon. Raman Pratasevich was quoted

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — One after another, the racial insults kept coming. The “monkey” chants outside one stadium, the offensive gestures during a game, the effigy hung off a highway bridge. One by one, Vinícius Júnior showed them on a video on Instagram on Monday, making sure they were there

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Brokeback Mountain” was a star-making story onscreen. It may turn out to be the same onstage. Rising American stars Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist are making their London theater debuts in an adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story about two star-crossed Wyoming shepherds in love. Hedges plays

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions with Iran have escalated over its nuclear program, the U.S. military this month posted pictures of a powerful bomb designed to penetrate deep into the earth and destroy underground facilities that could be used to enrich uranium. The U.S. Air Force on

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the past half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion. The stark recap from the World Meteorological Organization came as it opened its four-yearly

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has ordered the release of an associate of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from detention, even as authorities are pressing on with plans to prosecute thousands of his followers implicated in recent anti-government violence. Shireen Mazari, who served as rights minister under Khan during

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America’s economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal debt would quickly reverberate around the world. Orders for Chinese factories that sell electronics to

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Brooks Koepka now has five major championships with his two-shot win at the PGA Championship. That’s one major for LIV Golf. No one is keeping score that way, least of all Koepka. He says it should boost the Saudi-funded rival league. Certainly it should put

By CLAUDIA LAUER and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has been linked to viral videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms that teach people how to exploit a security vulnerability to steal the cars. Police and