Month: September 2023

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Referee Yoshimi Yamashita will return to Qatar to make more soccer history at the men’s Asian Cup in January after…

SYDNEY (AP) — A Chevron Corp. liquefied natural gas plant has reported a production outage as workers escalated a strike action against its…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Sometimes hosts offering to rent their vacation home, RV or car through peer-to-peer sharing sites don’t show up at…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has executed two soldiers who were convicted of treason as the kingdom conducted its war on…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Warning messages have sounded on cellphones and alarms have blared across Germany as part of a…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Italian city of Venice has been struggling to manage an onslaught of tourists in the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police have paid damages to two protesters who were arrested while attending a vigil for a…

MADRID (AP) — Spain has recorded its third hottest summer since official records began 62 years ago. Authorities said Thursday that summer…

By SAM METZ and MOHAMED BOUKDIRE Associated Press AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Rachid Alachoun, a 40-year-old plumber, washes clothes on the roof of his…

MADRID (AP) — The players in Spain’s women’s soccer league have called off a strike after reaching a deal to increase minimum wage. The first…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies have reported a nationwide power outage…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey. The…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — An American researcher says he thought he would die after falling ill while exploring a Turkish…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry has protested a decision by the European Union to investigate exports…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of communities around the country will share more than $1 billion in federal…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is releasing a report on what it needs to better understand unidentified flying…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Police in Vietnam say that 10 children are among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former firearms executive Ryan Busse says he’s seeking the…

By SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MURAD The Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves as…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are holding a fresh round of meetings aimed at improving their strained relations. The meetings in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Another attempt to pull free a luxury cruise ship with 206 people that ran aground in the world’s northernmost…

By YOUSEF MURAD and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings,…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Thursday expressed “deep concern and regret”…

PARIS (AP) — France says a French official detained in military-led Niger last week has been released. The arrest heightened tensions between…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after a highly anticipated report showed inflation accelerated…

By KARL RITTER and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden this week marks the 50th anniversary of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s accession…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is deciding whether to raise interest rates again or not,…

SYDNEY (AP) — Sydney is blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press ASA’EL, West Bank (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken steps toward…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Two shootings three decades apart at the University of North Carolina show how much has changed. Some alumni who…

By MICHAEL CASEY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — Hurricane Lee looks poised to wallop New England later this week…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — If you think the roads have gotten busier on your morning commute, you’re not alone. The…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston firefighter Daniel Ranahan had heard about colleagues getting cancer but he was stunned when…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate plans to vote Thursday on…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While the nation has been transfixed by the two-week manhunt for escaped prisoner Danelo Souza…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The rapid depreciation of the Argentine currency and one of the world’s…

By PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lawyers for impeached Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton are set to…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts by the Biden administration to limit tailpipe pollution from automobiles — a major…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An industrial park being built in Indonesia on the tropical island of Borneo that has…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government is proposing tougher restrictions on former defense military…

By ADAM BEAM, SOPHIE AUSTIN and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Legislative workers at the California Capitol are close…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s new Prime Minister Hun Manet is heading to Beijing on his first…

BEIJING (AP) — A tower crane has collapsed at a bridge construction project in southwest China, killing six people and injuring five others.…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s government says it has met with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a threat by that…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The father of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is calling on…

By MARIA SHERMAN and DAVID BAUDER ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gannett, the United States’ biggest newspaper chain, posted two unusual job…