Month: September 2023

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s civil servants have walked off the job on a 24-hour strike that disrupted public transport and left ferries tied…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Twelve people are reported missing including three members of the security forces after a boat…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a surprise outcome, South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament has voted to…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Homeowners across the U.K. are hoping that the Bank of England will decide to avoid raising interest…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Congo’s president wants the world’s second largest United Nations peacekeeping mission to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s central bank has raised its key interest rate, saying the “inflationary pressures in the Swedish economy are still…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will host a meeting of nations participating in the U.S. Africa Growth and…

Representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan government are meeting for talks Thursday to discuss the future of the breakaway region…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s visa processing center in Canada says it has suspended services as a rift widened between the countries after Canada’s…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Three South African navy personnel have died and a senior officer is in a critical…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore police say they have uncovered more luxury watches, gold bars and other assets from a massive money…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Emergency authorities in Romania say a gas explosion at a highway construction site has killed four people and injured…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force in Haiti to combat…

PARIS (AP) — King Charles III is to address French lawmakers, meet with sports groups in Paris northern suburbs and pay a visit to Notre-Dame…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a tank was stolen from a military training zone…

By ABBY SEWELL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities have started an investigation into a shooting outside the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are lower, tracking a slump on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said it may not cut…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A record number of Australians has enrolled to vote in a referendum that would create an…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old who shot his teacher in Virginia could be jailed for failing mandatory drug tests. A bail…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is readying to execute a man for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media says Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in China on his first visit to the country since the start of…

By TERRY SPENCER and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — For the first time in a century, a private passenger rail service will launch new…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, has met Vietnamese Vice…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Las Vegas newspaper is the subject of vicious attacks online for its coverage of an alleged…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer If you are bored with day-in, day-out sports like basketball or swimming or volleyball, then check out the Asian…

PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake heads to trial in another lawsuit filed over her loss in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race. The trial starting Thursday…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that relations with the United States can move…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In an era where rock bands seem endangered and most of the genre often seems formed in the last…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors are set to call their first witnesses in the trial of two Denver-area police…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions rocked Ukrainian cities overnight, as a massive Russian attack started fires and injured at least 14 people. Seven…

By JAMES POLLARD and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is expected to do something he hasn’t done in the two years…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African. Venezuelans were the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick is expected to announce that he’ll enter Pennsylvania’s…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants riding atop railway cars in Mexico this week or waiting in…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — More than 15,000 people in Arizona have registered to join a new political party floating a…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HARDIN, Mont. (AP) — Kaysera Stops Pretty Places’ death remains unsolved four years after her body was found in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is returning…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up in Parliament and said India may have been involved in…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian bullet struck the sergeant just above the left ear. The…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attacked his Republican rivals and displayed an openness…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba says a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer for the troubled electronics and energy…

HIRAM, Georgia (AP) — A man and woman have died after a shooting inside a Georgia Walmart that police are calling an apparent murder-suicide.…

BEIRUT (AP) — An unknown gunman opened fire outside the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, but a spokesperson say no one was hurt. The…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors say a 73-year-old man has pleaded guilty to driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern Illinois and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sheriff says nine Memphis jail deputies have been indicted in the death of a Black man who…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s Community Police Commission on Wednesday recommended that the city’s police chief suspend without pay an officer under…

Associated Press Federal prosecutors have recommended life sentences for the man who opened fire on a crowded Brooklyn subway train last year,…