Month: October 2023

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip’s land crossing with Egypt as his embassy advised, hoping to flee Israel’s bombardment and

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — After Hamas militants attacked Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, killing more than 100 of its 1,100 residents, the Israeli government evacuated many survivors to a hotel near the Dead Sea. On the shores of the salty lake, known for its healing powers, the survivors follow

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market. They also say Chinese facilities using forced labor should be banned from doing business with American companies. The request, sent by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A group of 33 states including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal

By FARAI MUTSAKA Asociated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A German tourist who went missing in a national park teeming with wild animals in northern Zimbabwe has been found alive and in “good health” along with his rental car three days later. A national parks agency spokesperson says the tourist had last been seen buying

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The AquaDom aquarium, which stood in a hotel lobby, burst in the early hours of Dec. 16, sending 1

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on the fourth of the largest multi-sport event in the region. Construction material is scattered around many of the entrances to the National

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and U.N. peacekeepers as Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops clash for a third week. Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s visit Tuesday to the tense southern province is the first since clashes erupted along the border

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new shot for infants against RSV is in short supply, and U.S. health officials are telling doctors they should prioritize giving the drug to babies at the highest risk of severe disease. The one-time shot is called Beyfortus. It was developed by AstraZeneca and

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is turning up the heat on General Motors as 5,000 workers walked off their jobs at a highly profitable SUV factory in Arlington, Texas. The walkout Tuesday comes just a day after the union went on strike at Stellantis’ pickup truck factory in Sterling Heights, Michigan, north

MADRID (AP) — The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek.  The coalition partners struck the agreement on Tuesday as they try to remain in power following an inconclusive election in July. Spain has had a 40-hour workweek for the past two decades. The proposal is for Spain to

By WILL WEISSERT and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia and says she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.” Ellis is the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC documentary that explores the business aspects of the highest form of racing in the world. The documentary “Inside Track: The Business of Formula 1” will debut Nov. 16 on CNBC ahead

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details. A spokesman for the Swedish Navy said that divers saw “seabed tracks nearby, but we don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident.” Swedish authorities

GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are searching for a man in connection with the shooting death of his wife. Police say 33-year-old man Aaron Pennington, was considered to be armed and dangerous. They found his car Monday night in the woods in the city of Gardner in the northern part of the state,

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls, bringing life-affirming, pretty-girl scam rap to the masses. A lot has changed since their 2018 debut “Girl Code” and their feature on Drake’s “In My Feelings.” “RAW,” JT and Yung Miami’s

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The office of Slovakia’s president says she is ready to swear in a new Cabinet led by a former populist prime minister after a coalition partner agreed to replace its nominee for environment minister known for not believing in climate change. President Zuzana Caputova is set to appoint the new government

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has extended protection from arrest to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in graft cases while another withdrew its arrest warrant against him following his return home after four years of self-imposed exile in London. Sharif appeared at the Islamabad High Court and the anti-graft

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Police officers in suburban Milwaukee have killed a person who fired at them from a middle school roof. Officials with the state Department of Justice say officers with the Germantown Police Department responded Monday evening to a person acting erratically in Kennedy Middle School’s parking lot. When officers arrived the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Otis continues strengthening as it approaches Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall near the resort of Acapulco late Tuesday or early Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says that Otis was about 175 miles (280 kilometers) south-southeast of Acapulco on Tuesday

Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Local authorities say at least 50 people have been kidnapped in two separate incidents within two days in northern Cameroon. The kidnappings occurred Sunday and Monday by an unknown armed group near the border with Chad. Abductions in this area happen often, but locals say the scale of these

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Funeral services are planned Tuesday for a Philadelphia police officer killed in an airport parking garage shooting that also wounded another officer earlier this month. A funeral Mass for Officer Richard Mendez is slated for noon Tuesday. Fifty-year-old Mendez and Officer Raul Ortiz saw several people breaking into a car in the

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court ruling that the state’s restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now. The justices on Tuesday rejected a lower court ruling that the ban was invalid because it was enacted in 2019, when

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of some 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago. The negotiations have once again put the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. They have

By NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press ROME (AP) — The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a gay orgy in a priest’s apartment. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for the bishop’s resignation, but his diocese has been in the

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews worked through the night clearing the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes on Interstate 55 near New Orleans caused by a “superfog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog that killed at least seven people and injured another 25. Hazardous driving conditions Tuesday morning

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book’s original release. Michelle Obama has read

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE, JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say extremists with ties to the Islamic State group killed at least 26 people in the country’s east. Attackers with the Allied Democratic Forces killed people in the city of Oicha in North Kivu province on Monday. Most of the victims

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On Tuesday, Winfrey has selected Ward’s “Let Us Descend,” which comes out this week. “Let Us Descend” is a slave narrative set in the 19th century and follows a teenage

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on. In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the shiny tricolor kernels in white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes:

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the Russian fleet safe bases and secure maritime corridors in the western part of the Black Sea. That area is where Kyiv’s troops are looking to squeeze the Kremlin’s occupying forces out of the Crimean

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip. She spoke a day after

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are raising new challenges to the federal election subversion case against him in Washington. The Trump lawyers are telling a judge the indictment should be dismissed because it violates the Republican former president’s free speech rights and represents a vindictive

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of a gold mine in South Africa says a group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. He said on Tuesday that some 15 miners are believed to

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The U.S. government is suspending most financial assistance to Gabon after a military coup earlier this year. State Department spokesperson Matthew Milller said in a statement that humanitarian aid will continue. The official coup d’etat designation comes nearly two months after President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s overthrow. Ondimba had served two terms

TAIPEI. Taiwan (AP) — China has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months with little explanation, state media reported Tuesday. Li is the second senior Chinese official to disappear this year, following former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was removed from office in July with