Month: October 2023

By RIZWAN ALI AP Sports Writer ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistan Cricket Board has expressed “extreme disappointment” about a delay in the issuing of Indian visas to its country’s journalists and fans for the World Cup. The chairman of the PCB management committee Zaka Ashraf met with Pakistan foreign secretary Syrus Sajjad Qazi on Monday

Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s attorney general is calling for the government to act against largely peaceful protesters, which have taken to the streets for weeks demanding her resignation for what they say are clear attempts to undermine their nation’s democracy. Protests broke out in Guatemala two weeks ago following one of the

By The Associated Press Native Americans are celebrating their histories and cultures with events across the country marking Indigenous Peoples Day. The ceremonies, dances and speeches come two years after President Joe Biden officially commemorated Indigenous Peoples Day. In Minnesota, about 150 people, including the governor and lieutenant governor, attended a sunrise prayer and ceremony

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s high court temporarily has barred deployment of the country’s security forces to other countries for two weeks until a case filed by a local politician challenging such action as unconstitutional is looked into. The decision Monday came after Kenya agreed to lead a multi-national force

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he is going to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting Texas truck inspections that have caused major delays at border crossings. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed Monday that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to enforce additional truck inspections was “very irresponsible” and politically motivated.

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are seeking suspects in a shooting that killed one man and wounded eight other people at a private party in a Pennsylvania community center. State police in Indiana County said nine people between the ages of 18 and 23 were shot early Sunday at the Chevy Chase Community Center in

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Flag football took a key step toward becoming an Olympic sport in 2028, a victory for the NFL and organizers in Los Angeles who will bring a distinctly American sport into the world’s largest sports festival. Two people familiar with a proposal from the Los Angeles organizing committee told

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer There’s a longstanding question in sports that scientists have tried to answer: Which playing surface is safer for athletes: natural grass or artificial turf? The question is important not just in football, but also in soccer and other sports _ anywhere athletes make sudden shifts in direction that

BY RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer When Aaron Rodgers went down with an injury just a few plays into his first season with the New York Jets, it reignited calls from NFL players to have all the stadiums in which they play use natural grass fields for their safety. In major college football,

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.55 billion for Monday night’s drawing after no one matched the game’s six numbers for the giant prize Saturday. The $1.55 billion prize is for a sole winner who is paid through an annuity, with annual checks over 30 years. Most jackpot winners opt

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a group of Pakistani Taliban ambushed Pakistani troops during an operation against insurgents on the border with Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that killed an army major, a junior officer and five militants. The shootout happened in the district Zhob in Baluchistan province. Pakistani Taliban in a statement claimed responsibility

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in ethnically split Cyprus says Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have reached an “understanding” over a contentious road inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone whose construction had stirred up tensions not seen in years. U.N. envoy Colin Stewart said a

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Odenkirk has known he wanted to immortalize the playful poems he created with his kids since they were first scribbled down years ago. The Emmy-nominated actor always assumed “Zilot & Other Important Rhymes” would be a project he completed once his son and daughter had

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent inquiry has opened in the U.K. to examine claims that British special forces murdered dozens of Afghan men during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago. It will also look into allegations that authorities subsequently covered up the alleged illegal activity. The inquiry opened at

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is bracing for a one-two punch from Tropical Storms Lidia and Max, which are expected to make landfall Monday and Tuesday in different parts of the country. Max strengthened to tropical storm status and was expected to hit land just east of the resort town of Zihuatanejo with winds of

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi says the bloc is suspending “all payments immediately” to the Palestinians because of what he called the “scale of terror and brutality” during the attacks of Hamas against Israel. The surprise announcement by Varhelyi on Monday came just hours after EU officials stressed that no EU money

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods. Authorities say are they aiming to clamp down on organized crime groups. The three-pronged raid that began early Monday targeted not only the Mare complex of favelas by Rio’s international

By MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says at least nine American citizens have been killed in the weekend Hamas attacks on Israel. That’s an increase over the previous toll of four. It says an undetermined number of American citizens remain missing and unaccounted for. On Sunday, an

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A British army veteran who fought and survived one of his country’s harshest battles known as the Burma Campaign against the Japanese during World War II has traveled to Japan to lay flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a memorial ceremony on Monday to

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has released a Russia-born Swedish citizen charged with collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov is accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States. He was released on Monday, with the court saying there was

BERLIN (AP) — A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany says her party is no longer a primarily eastern German phenomenon after a pair of strong state election performances in the country’s more prosperous west. She declared on Monday that “we have arrived.” The 10-year-old Alternative for Germany is at its strongest in the

NEW YORK (AP) — Major airlines are suspending flights to Israel after it formally declared war following a massive attack by Hamas. American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines suspended service as the U.S. State Department issued travel advisories for the region citing potential for terrorism and civil unrest. United said it allowed two

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia says that 43 citizens have been rescued by police in Peru after they fell victim to a human trafficking syndicate operating a telecommunication fraud. They Malaysians were involved in the so-called “Macau scam” that reportedly originates from crime syndicates in Taiwan and China, in which scammers impersonate banks or

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer tried to assure the U.K. Supreme Court that the British government analyzed the risks of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda and would have people there to make sure it was safe. The Conservative government is challenging a Court of Appeal ruling that found the policy unlawful

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs executive convicted in the United States in the multibillion-dollar ransacking of a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund has been brought back to the country to assist in asset recovery efforts. Roger Ng Chong Hwa is under police custody after arriving in Kuala

BERLIN (AP) — Officials say flights to and from Hamburg Airport have been suspended after authorities received a threat to a plane that arrived from Iran. The airport said that there had been no takeoffs or landings at the airport in northern Germany since 12:40 p.m. (1040 GMT), according to German news agency dpa. Federal

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Saudi Arabia has formally informed FIFA of its wish to host the men’s World Cup in 2034 in a bidding contest that increasingly looks designed for the oil-rich kingdom to win. The Saudi Arabian soccer federation says it “submitted a letter of intent and signed declaration

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Baby boomers are poised to pass on an enormous amount of wealth to their children and grandchildren over the next two decades. Financial experts recommend talking about potential inheritances early, while family members are still living, so you can prepare together. Being aware of your parents’ financial situation can also

By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $40 million in funding to help develop messenger RNA vaccines in Africa. The new investment will provide the technology to two Africa-based vaccine producers — Institut Pasteur in Senegal and Biovac in South Africa. Among the diseases they

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to drop his Democratic bid for president and announce he’ll run as an independent or third-party candidate. Kennedy’s campaign has teased a major announcement Monday in Philadelphia. Kennedy running as a third-party candidate would add a new wrinkle to