Month: May 2023

By JOHN LEICESTER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France pledged additional military aid for Ukraine on Sunday, including light tanks, armored vehicles, training for soldiers and other assistance as the Ukrainians gear up for a counteroffensive against Russian forces, following surprise talks in Paris between the Ukrainian and French presidents. Ukraine’s Volodymyr

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers. Joseph Dituri’s 74th day residing in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, situated at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo, wasn’t much different than his previous

The Associated Press The head of Russia’s feared Wagner private army has suggested that four Russian military aircraft that reportedly crashed in a region that borders Ukraine may have been shot down by Russia’s own forces. Russian officials have not commented on reports in Russian conventional and social media that two fighter planes and two

LONDON (AP) — London’s Gatwick Airport closed its runway for almost an hour on Sunday after a drone was reported nearby. Officials at Britain’s second-busiest airport said 12 incoming flights had to be diverted to other airports. The airport said that “following established procedures operations at London Gatwick were suspended” for about 50 minutes while

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Ja Morant was suspended by the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday after he appeared to be holding a gun in another social media video that was streamed live on Instagram, the latest in a series of concerning incidents involving the two-time All-Star guard. It’s the second time in less than

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Several new movies infiltrated theaters nationwide this weekend, from a lighthearted trip to Italy with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton and Mary Steenburgen to a Ben Affleck-fronted detective thriller. The two top spots were once again claimed by Marvel and Mario, however. In its second weekend, “Guardians of

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s conservative ruling party has promised voters a range of new benefits, including a large increase in a popular cash benefit for families with children. Poland is due to hold a parliamentary election this fall. A date hasn’t been set, but the vote is expected to be held

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a shooting broke out during a dispute inside a downtown Louisville, Kentucky, business, killing one. Louisville Metro Police Department spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said in a news release that officers were called to the shooting about 11 p.m. Saturday. Smiley said two men and two women were found wounded in

By CARLOS VALDEZ LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — On a recent, cold morning, Dr. Carlos Ortuño hopped into a tiny electric car to go check on a patient in the outskirts of Bolivia’s capital of La Paz, unsure if the vehicle would be able to handle the steep, winding streets of the high-altitude city. “I

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has an ambitious agenda when he sets off this week on an eight-day trip to the Indo-Pacific. He’s looking to tighten bonds with longtime allies, make history as the first sitting U.S. president to visit the tiny island state of Papua New Guinea and

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire’s largest city are investigating a shooting at a graduation party that wounded four people on Saturday. Manchester police say all the victims who were injured, including two women and two men in their 20s, are expected to survive. Initial reports say the shooting reported just before 5

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. The synthetic images that emerged

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen —

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons they say people have handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation. The government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons following

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool cleaned up from the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, as Sweden celebrated victory and Ukraine remained defiant after a night of Russian bombardment, including a strike on the hometown of the country’s competitors. Electronic duo Tvorchi represented Ukraine at the spectacular pan-continental pop competition on

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The governor of a state in western Burkina Faso says an attack by suspected Islamic extremists on a village has killed 33 civilians. The provisional death toll from the Thursday evening attack on the village of Youlou in Mouhoun province was announced in a press

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — When Luis López was lost in Panama’s Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. “If I was bad, let me die here,

By JOSH FUNK and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Democratic Party will consider expelling anyone involved in a brawl that broke out at a political event to nominate candidates for a Minneapolis City Council seat. At least two people were injured in Saturday’s confrontation. The head of the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party,

By FARES AKRAM and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Sunday after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel. In an early test for the truce, Palestinian militants fired

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — The leader of an insurgent group that rules much of northwest Syria rose to notoriety over the past decade by claiming deadly bombings, threatening revenge against Western “crusader” forces and dispatching Islamist religious police to crack down on women deemed to be immodestly

LOS LUNAS, N.M. (AP) — First responders completed a search for victims after a bridge over a New Mexico river partially collapsed Saturday night. KOAT-TV reports Los Lunas Fire Chief John Gabaldon says two people were rescued after the Los Lunas River Bridge collapsed. Emergency crews initially searched for additional victims, but Gabaldon has confirmed

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing roofs off buildings and killing at least three people. Cyclone Mocha made landfall Sunday afternoon in Myanmar’s Rakhine state near Sittwe

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Cannes Film Festival, which will kick off Tuesday, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It’s a showcase of the world’s best cinema. It’s a red-carpet spectacular. It’s a French Riviera hive of dealmaking. But by at least some

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s planned counteroffensive is designed to liberate areas occupied by Russia, not to attack Russian territory. Speaking at a news conference Sunday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s goal is to free the territories within its internationally recognized borders.

By DEEPTI HAJELA and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan shuttered three years ago, but it will soon be bustling again — reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to emergency shelters. Mayor

By MARK PRATT Associated Press WARREN, R.I. (AP) — A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade and the place of women in 19th century New England society. The window installed

By VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press LAINDEHA, Indonesia (AP) — As Tamar Ana Jawa wove a red sarong in the fading sunlight, her neighbor switched on a light bulb dangling from the sloping tin roof. It was just one bulb powered by a small solar panel, but in this remote village that means

By MARLÓN GONZALEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The mother of a 17-year-old Honduran migrant who died in U.S. custody says her son had epilepsy but showed no signs of being seriously ill before he left for the United States. The death of Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza at a holding center in Florida this