Month: October 2023

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press When 85-year-old Israeli woman Yocheved Lifshitz was released from Hamas captivity last week, she was warmly welcomed home. Then she began to speak. Addressing reporters from a wheelchair at a hospital, Lifshitz described a harrowing experience in Hamas captivity but also said she had been fairly treated. Israeli media instantly

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police are continuing their search for the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz, one day after he was kidnapped with his wife near the country’s border with Venezuela. Luis Manuel Díaz and Cilenis Marulanda were kidnapped on Saturday by gunmen in their city of Barrancas, near the Caribbean. Marulanda was

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Official say six people have died and 40 others are injured after two passenger trains collided in southern India. The crash happened in Andhra Pradesh state’s Vizianagaram district on Sunday. Officials say an incoming train slammed into a stationary train, derailing at least three rail cars.

By ELISE MORTON LONDON (AP) — Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country. The “Returning of the Names” event was organized by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial. It has traditionally been held in Moscow on Oct. 29

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer ARCADIA. Calif. (AP) — Kentucky Derby winner Mage won’t run in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The colt had yet to travel to California for the world championships next weekend at Santa Anita. His trainer, Gustavo Delgado, posted online that the colt had a temperature and a decreased

ATLANTA (AP) — Four people were shot Sunday near Georgia State University’s Atlanta campus. Two of the victims are students at the university. Authorities say three of the victims are in stable condition, and one is in critical condition. Police say the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two groups. They did not reveal whether

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The 10-day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking celebration is ending in Key West, after some 100 events with an increased emphasis on imaginative costuming and decreases in past years’ decadence. Tens of thousands of spectators thronged the subtropical island’s historic downtown Saturday night for Fantasy Fest’s highlight event, a parade

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Around 2,000 Ukrainians have taken part in a one-kilometer race in Kyiv, wearing bibs displaying the name of a person instead of a number. Each runner chose one person to whom they dedicated the run. Spouses, children, friends, siblings, neighbors, and colleagues ran for someone they

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Fans flocked to movie theaters across the country to see the scary video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” on the big screen, which made $78 million to top the North American box office. That is according to studio estimates Sunday. The movie also opened in more than 60

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Twelve people have died in the crash of a small aircraft in Brazil’s Amazon region. The plane went down on Sunday morning near the main airport in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state, according to the press office of Gov. Gladson Cameli. Video supposedly of the crash site on

Matthew Perry was mourned on social media by friends, co-stars and some very famous fans, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his “Friends” mom and Adele. Perry played Chandler Bing on NBC’s “Friends” for 10 seasons. He was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Saturday. Trudeau, who attended elementary school with Perry while

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man has been arrested in connection with the death of the great-nephew of world-renowned singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. Tracy Cole was stabbed to death in Atlanta on Sept. 14. The 31-year-old Cole died at the hospital. Investigators have charged Ricardo Gayle with his killing. He was taken

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s main politico-religious party have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza, chanting anti-American slogans that accused the U.S. of “backing the aggressor.” The extreme right party, Jamaat-e-Islami, planned to march to the U.S. embassy in the high-security diplomatic enclave, but changed its

PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has promised to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution by next year. The president on Sunday said on X, formerly Twitter, that a bill making this possible would be presented to his Cabinet by the end of this year so that “in 2024, the

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The stage is set for the New Hampshire presidential primary, even though the date hasn’t been picked yet. For the past two weeks, candidates have been arriving at the secretary of state’s office in Concord to fill out their paperwork and pay the $1,000 filing fee

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh detained a key opposition figure of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party which called for a nationwide strike. This comes a day after clashes — which left at least one policeman dead and scores injured — erupted during a massive rally demanding the resignation of

By MELINA WALLING and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press Hudson, CO. (AP) — Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day. He could tell the snow was abundant last winter, and verified it up close when he floated through fresh powder alongside

By JAKE BLEIBERG and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Dozens of Maine residents gathered at Sunday services to pray and support one another following a traumatic week in which a fellow Mainer gunned down 18 people in the worst mass killing in state history. The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf began services at the

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit a family farm in Minnesota on Wednesday as part of two weeks of stops in rural America by top administration officials. The visits are intended to highlight how increases in government spending can help improve peoples’ lives. Biden’s focus on the state

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Twenty-five years after they first met at Princeton, Chris Young and Mike Hazen are facing off in the World Series as architects of pennant-winning teams. Hazen is in his seventh season as general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Young in his third as GM

LONDON (AP) — Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry says the death toll from a fire at a coal mine has risen to 42. Four miners are still missing. Mine owner ArcelorMittal said the blaze was believed to have been caused by a blast of methane gas, and that some 252 people were working at the mine at

By AAMER MADHANI, CHRIS MEGERIAN, WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Israel-Hamas war enters a new phase, President Joe Biden is pressing Israeli and Arab leaders to think hard about their eventual postwar reality. Biden says central to that future should be achieving the long-sought two-state solution, where

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Bereaved relatives of victims of last year’s devastating Halloween crush in Seoul and their supporters have demanded an independent investigation of the disaster as they marked the anniversary with a massive memorial service. The crush, one of the biggest peacetime disasters in South Korea, killed

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Asssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump will headline his eighth campaign event in Iowa in a little more than a month on Sunday as part of the former president’s accelerated fall schedule leading up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses in January. Trump’s planned speech at the historic Orpheum Theater in

By BILL BARROW Associated Press JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — The political dynamics in some of Atlanta’s suburbs reflect how partisan and cultural divisions have trickled down to local campaigns. Some activists and voters now view these nominally nonpartisan contests as critical fronts in shaping the nation’s identity. In Johns Creek, Georgia, one candidate for

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a fight between two groups turned deadly when a shooting in a city street resulted in two deaths and 18 people hospitalized. Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw says officers responded to the shooting just before 3 a.m. on the 1600 block of East 7th Avenue in the

ROME (AP) — Rescuers say sea searches have resumed in the sea and along the coasts of southwestern Sicily, where a fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants became grounded, killing five people and leaving about 20 missing. The bodies of five men were recovered on Saturday morning on the beach of Marinella di Selinunte, near

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says its air defense shot down 36 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula overnight Saturday. In Ukraine, the country’s air force said Sunday it had shot down five Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones launched by Russia overnight. Close to the front line in the country’s

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister says the road to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden would not be “smooth-sailing.” In a meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Biden, together with the latter’s top aides, both sides agreed to work toward a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of

By SAMY MAGDY and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jewish settler has shot dead a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the West Bank city of Nablus, the man’s uncle said. This brings the number of Palestinians reported killed by settlers to seven since Hamas’s bloody incursion into Israel three weeks ago. Tayseer

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Trade and economy officials from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have strengthened their pledge to work together to ensure smooth supply chains for essentials like energy and food despite global uncertainties. The nations promised in a statement on Sunday to maintain what they called “a

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities say at least one person has been killed and over 20 were injured in a blast at a convention center in southern India. Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witness faithful were gathered Sunday for a prayer session at the Samra International Convention Center in the town of Kalamassery in Kerala state when

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early Sunday near Gaza’s largest hospital, which is packed with patients and tens of thousands of Palestinians seeking shelter. Israel has said Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have a command post under the hospital, without providing much

By DANICA KIRKA and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III wants to look to the future when his four-day state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday. But first he will have to confront the past. Charles is facing calls to address the legacy of eight decades of British colonial rule. He

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — More resources are arriving on Mexico’s battered Pacific coast, and the death toll from Hurricane Otis is growing as searchers recover more bodies from Acapulco’s harbor and under fallen trees and other storm debris. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday that his opponents are trying

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the modern, secular republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. But expect no grand pageantry or gala reception to memorialize the important milestone. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has opted for a low-key celebration of

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — A refurbishing effort will breathe new life into Anchorage’s oldest standing building, a simple Russian Orthodox log church dating from the era of Russia’s colonization of Alaska. The church features not only religious icons provided by Romanov czars but a cemetery blending burial traditions from Russia

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country. The gap between them is wide, often as wide as the

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press CARMEL, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter is unexpectedly a major point of contention in a mayoral race following the group’s use of a quote by Adolf Hitler. Moms for Liberty, known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in schools, has focused on forming chapters in

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Merrill Kelly pitched three-hit ball over seven innings, Ketel Marte extended his postseason hitting streak to a record 18 games and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Texas Rangers 9-1 on Saturday night to even the World Series at one game apiece. Gabriel Moreno hit a

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in the hit series “Friends,” has died. He was 54. The Emmy-nominated actor was found dead of an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times and celebrity website TMZ, which was the first to report the news.