Month: August 2023

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — More than 1,400 of Freddie Mercury ‘s personal items, including his flamboyant stage costumes, handwritten drafts of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the baby grand piano he used to compose Queen’s greatest hits, are going on display in a free exhibition at Sotheby’s London ahead of their sale. The

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has handed over to Italy a suspected Italian drug dealer arrested last month north of the capital of Beirut,. Judicial officials say that Bartolo Bruzzaniti was flown to Italy on a private jet on Thursday morning. The anti-Mafia prosecutors based in Reggio Calabria, a city in

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the largest U.S. fashion brands and retailers have made their way into the adaptive-wear market. But supporters say more needs to be done. Consultant Mindy Scheier helps guide companies through the process. She says including people with disabilities at the outset is key to

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister has attacked the Biden administration as weak and uninterested in the Mideast conflict. Violence between Israel and the Palestinians has surged to its highest levels in nearly two decades. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki told foreign reporters in Ramallah on Thursday

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires. The affiliated Korean automakers are recalling the vehicles and also are telling owners to park them away from structures until repairs

BY ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian official says New Delhi will participate in a weekend meeting that Saudi Arabia is hosting to find a way to start negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. A spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry said Thursday that Saudi Arabia invited India to the

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man rammed a car onto a sidewalk Thursday in the South Korean city of Seongnam, then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people at a shopping mall, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Just hours after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who dropped all appeals has been executed for the 1988 murder of a woman who was sexually assaulted, killed with a hammer and then set on fire in her own bed. Sixty-one-year-old James Phillip Barnes received a lethal injection Thursday evening at a

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. The Interfax news agency reported that a justice of the peace in a magistrate’s court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000)

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The leaders warned that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. The meeting Thursday came

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard has rescued all 67 people from a ferry boat that struck a floating object and took on water off a northeastern province. It was the second ferry accident to hit the country in a week. Officials said a passenger on the Jovelle Express 3 managed to contact

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Five Greenpeace demonstrators were arrested Thursday after they draped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric to protest his plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Video posted by the group showed a crew dressed in bright red

By ABBY SEWELL and FADI TAWIL Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has demanded an end to the volatile clashes in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that troops may have to intervene if the deadly violence doesn’t stop. Najib Mikati called Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday after sporadic

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have asked the federal government for help as a local ethnic militia clashes with federal security forces. Flights to key cities have been halted. The deputy prime minister calls the situation “increasingly grave.” Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo is reporting a 52% increase in profit for the first fiscal quarter following the success of its Super Mario movie and the new Zelda video game. Demand was strong for Nintendo Switch game software, which received a boost from this year’s release of the film.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has heard a petition against a law that protects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being removed from office over claims of a conflict of interest because of his ongoing corruption trial. A few dozen people protested outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Thursday. Judges heard the petition by

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands (AP) — A freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea has been towed to a Dutch port for salvage. The Fremantle Highway arrived Thursday at the northern port of Eemshaven. Scores of curious sightseers gathered to watch tugboats tow the

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court says officials can conduct a scientific survey of a 17th-century mosque in northern India to determine if it was built over Hindu temple. The Gyanvapi Mosque in the Hindu pilgrammage city of Varanasi. It’s one of several mosques in northern Uttar Pradesh state

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — International pressure is mounting on leaders of the coup in Niger. The American secretary of state said Thursday that the United States supports West African leaders who have threatened to use force to restore the nation’s democracy. Meanwhile, Senegal offered troops to help. U.S. Secretary of

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is being rocked by a wave of mass protests calling for the country’s democracy to be upheld. But the pro-democracy movement lacks any clear message of opposition to Israel’s open-ended military rule over millions of Palestinians. This contradiction reflects a widely held belief among Jewish Israelis

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised its main interest rate to a fresh 15-year high as it tries to bring down persistently high inflation. The quarter-percentage point increase to 5.25% on Thursday was the central bank’s 14th hike in a row. There had been fears, certainly among hard-pressed

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street sank for a third day following a British interest rate hike. Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo retreated. Oil prices were mixed. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index fell 0.3% after the Bank of England on Thursday

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The search for an Australian army helicopter that crashed at sea killing four people during a military exercise with the United States has found human remains but not the black box crucial to explaining the tragedy. Recovering the four air crew and the black box flight

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says that Dora has become a Category 3 hurricane far off Mexico’s western Pacific Coast — but will not pose a threat to land. Forecasters say Dora is moving generally westward and is located 700 miles (1,130 kilometers) southwest of the tip of the Baja, California.

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday. During the brief court hearing in Houston that was attended by Paxton, his lawyers

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Ballistics experts will fire up to 139 shots at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday during a reenactment of the 2018 Parkland massacre organized as part of a lawsuit that accuses a sheriff’s deputy of failing in his duty to protect the victims. As the

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is praising Kenya’s interest in leading a multinational force in Haiti. But weeks ago, the U.S. openly warned Kenyan police officers against violent abuses. Now 1,000 of those police officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare. Kenya’s police have long

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest indictment of Donald Trump alleges the former president conspired to overturn the will of voters and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Yet Trump’s most devoted followers claim these serious criminal charges actually show Trump is the victim of political persecution. Misleading