Month: September 2023

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban representatives are in the Russian city of Kazan for talks on regional threats as Russia attempts to…

By MICHAEL BLOOD, MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve accelerated in August,…

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s big three automakers that…

LONDON (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of school children has overturned on a highway near Liverpool on Friday. First responders said one person was…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — For more than two hours on a Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Gustavo Castillo led…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The small southern African nation of Eswatini is holding elections to decide part…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s conservative opposition leader has drawn strong government criticism for suggesting that migrants are getting expensive…

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Russia appears to have avoided a full ban from next year’s Paralympics in Paris after the International Paralympic…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Europe captain Luke Donald wanted a fast start in the Ryder Cup. He is getting…

By AHMAD SEIR and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A Rotterdam hospital official says that a medical student…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of…

MADRID (AP) — The leader of Spain’s conservatives is trying for the second time in three days to get parliamentary support for his bid to become…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong and Macao say they arrested four more people linked to the cryptocurrency platform…

By DALATOU MAMANE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s military junta says an attack by Islamic extremists in…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Wildlife authorities and conservationists in Cyprus are releasing seven imported griffon vultures into the wild after…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — EMBARGOED UNTIL 6 A.M. ET Entrances to national parks will be blocked and thousands of park rangers…

MADRID (AP) — A new animal welfare law in Spain outlaws the use of animals for recreational activities that cause them pain and suffering but…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation has sharply dropped in Europe. The official figure released Friday by the…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The leaders of nine southern European Union countries are meeting in Malta on Friday to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors say they have indicted the daughter of a former president of Uzbekistan on…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — China’s League of Legends team hung on to take bronze in the Asian Games esports event by…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is releasing a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has cast doubt on the prospect of the European…

VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Bad weather has eased in central Greece leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region, which…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population…

By ZANA CIMILI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo police have raided several locations in a tense Serb-dominated area in the north of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the border between…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police and a government official in Pakistan say a powerful bomb has exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with only a few open due to public holidays across the…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir has agreed in a meeting with Russia’s…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Many millions of Chinese tourists are expected to travel within their country, splurging on hotels,…