Month: November 2023

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union’s border protection agency Frontex has joined the search for 12 crew members missing after a cargo ship sank in rough weather near the Greek island of Lesbos. Authorities said that a 40-year-old Egyptian was rescued while the body of another Egyptian crew member was recovered by a commercial

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A critically endangered Sumatran rhino was born in Indonesia’s western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the second Sumatran rhino born in the country this year and a welcome addition to a species that currently numbers fewer than 50 animals. A female named Delilah gave birth to

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Companies make it easy to subscribe to their services — and frustratingly hard to unsubscribe. Businesses are forced to give you privacy options, then make it difficult to opt out of sharing your data. Retailers pressure you to buy with fake countdown timers and “low stock” warnings. These are all

By The Associated Press Elon Musk is on a visit to Israel, where he toured a kibbutz that was attacked last month by Hamas militants and is set to meet with top leaders. The billionaire and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz that was stormed by Hamas militants on

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic upended the work habits of people around the world, with millions working from home, at least for part of their week. Workers have returned in waves back to the office on some days, but navigating that transition is a significant hurdle for

By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s three presidential hopefuls have vowed a peaceful race, a day before campaigning for next year’s election officially began as concerns rose their rivalry may sharpen religious and ethnic divides in Southeast Asia’s largest democracy. The election, due in February, will determine who

By GISELA SALOMON and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — In New York, migrants at a city-run shelter grumble that relatives who settled before them refuse to offer a bed. In Chicago, a provider of mental health services to people in the country illegally pivoted to new arrivals sleeping at a police station

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president is swearing in a government that isn’t expected to last more than 14 days, a tactical maneuver that allows the conservative Law and Justice party to hang onto power a bit longer. Following a national election in October, President Andrzej Duda is due to

PRAGUE (AP) — Labor unions have staged a day of protests and strikes across the Czech Republic to voice their opposition to the government’s package of cuts and austerity measures meant to keep the ballooning deficit under control. The unions are also demanding more money for education and healthcare and oppose the proposed draft of

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Delaware County’s twice-elected top prosecutor will run for attorney general of Pennsylvania in 2024. Jack Stollsteimer’s announcement Monday adds him to a crowded Democratic primary field. He is seeking an office that played a critical role in repelling Republican attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will convene the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council. He’s using Monday’s event to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data and other programs tied to the production and shipment of goods. The announcement comes after supply

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Magic, wonder and joy” is the holiday theme at the White House. Jill Biden is set to unveil the décor on Monday afternoon and says she wants visitors to experience the holidays through the eyes of a child. The White House says the décor includes 98 Christmas

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Police are investigating a Chinese wealth management company owned by Zhongzhi Enterprise Group days after the firm told investors it was insolvent. The Beijing Public Security Bureau said in a statement published on the social media platform WeChat that they had taken “criminal enforcement measures” against

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn’t have pneumonia. Francis himself on Sunday revealed that he was suffering from the inflammation problem, explaining why he didn’t keep his weekly window appointment to greet people in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican’s press

A storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and damaged buildings in Crimea, Russian state news agency Tass said. One person was killed. Around 800 exotic fish and animals at an aquarium also died after the room

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has quit his role in the building of a new governing coalition over a fraud allegation. The decision Monday throws the process of building a new government into turmoil before it had begun. Gom van Strien, a senator for Wilders’

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Delegations from the European Union member states and Middle Eastern and north African countries are meeting in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss the crisis in Gaza where a fragile pause in fighting is set to expire. Forty-two delegations will gather at Monday the event hosted by the

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media says the country’s navy has added a destroyer to its Caspian Sea fleet capable of launching cruise missiles. A Monday report by the state-owned IRNA news agency said the 1,400-ton Deilaman destroyer, named for a town in the north of Iran, is able to  launch torpedoes while traveling

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India say they were set to begin manual digging of what they hoped was the final phase of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two weeks. This came a day after an attempt to drill vertically — an

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, La. (AP) — Arliya Martin accepted her high school diploma with relief and gratitude. It was her ticket to better-paying work, she felt, after getting kicked out of high school and toiling for eight years at factory jobs to support her children. “This is a new path for me

By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — International mediators were pressing to extend a cease-fire in Gaza that has halted the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence in decades but is set to expire after Monday, as Israel and Hamas prepared for a fourth exchange of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by

PARIS (AP) — French Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt is going on trial over charges of favoritism related to a 2009 public sector contract passed when he was a mayor. France’s financial prosecutor’s office said Dussopt is suspected of having favored a private company, the Saur group, in the awarding of a water contract when he

PARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial in Paris for their alleged role in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. The killing in 2020 led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and secularism. The Islamic radical who killed the teacher was shot

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president says most leaders of attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons have been arrested. The attacks early Sunday surprised residents and security forces in the West African nation and raised fears of a possible coup in a troubled region. President Julius

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A hearing is set to begin to help determine whether a Georgia railroad can legally condemn property to build a rail line. The Georgia Public Service Commission is expected to begin hearing testimony Monday. The 4.5-mile line near Sparta would be built by the Sandersville Railroad to

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An international watchdog is urging the United Nations Security Council to consider all options to protect civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region. The U.N.’s refugee agency says more than 800 people were reportedly killed in a multi-day assault earlier this month. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which was

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea is restoring frontline guard posts that it had dismantled during a previous period of inter-Korean rapprochement. The South Korean announcement Monday comes amid heightened animosities over North Korea’s recent spy satellite launch. South Korea’s military said it detected North Korea

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press What motivates people to donate to charities or causes they care about is often deeply personal. Donors name relatives or friends who have survived or died from illnesses. They recount tearful conversations with their children. They point to their aspirations for how their communities and the larger world could be

ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s military says its forces raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of local Taliban in the country’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan, triggering an intense shootout that killed eight militants. In an overnight statement, the military stated that the intelligence-based operation took place on Sunday in the South Waziristan district in

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Supporting nonprofits on GivingTuesday this year could have a bigger impact than usual. That’s because nonprofits and industry groups say donations so far are down compared with previous years. Many organizations will be looking to make up the difference on GivingTuesday, which is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Some run matching

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The third and final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in suburban Denver after he was stopped by police is set to start. Monday’s court case involves homicide and manslaughter charges against two Denver-area paramedics. Experts say the prosecution enters largely uncharted

By HANNA ARHIROVA and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility in central Ukraine, a place that growing numbers of companies turned to as they struggled to export their food to people facing hunger around the world. Now, more of the grain

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states. Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The

By BILL BARROW Associated Press AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will make her final journey to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center on Monday as her family begins three days of memorials for the former first lady and global humanitarian who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96. After brief ceremonies in the Carters’

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Get Ready with Me” — to go on a date, go to work or … get fired? “Get Ready with Me” videos are everywhere these days, and they’re as straightforward as the name suggests. Social media users, often influencers, invite viewers to watch them get

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Earth’s climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer. Record-breaking heat, deadly flooding, withering droughts, wildfires that choked air for thousands of miles and more hurricanes growing rapidly. World leaders will convene late this month for another round of United Nations climate talks

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, people have shaped the world around them for

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Dove Cameron and Peter Gabriel, Harrison Ford’s last hurrah as Indiana Jones swings onto Disney+ and Elvis will be honored with a starry special “Christmas at Graceland” featuring Post Malone, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown. Paris Hilton has lately

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives, Cyber Monday – a term coined back in 2005 by the National Retail Federation –

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing is calling for a cease-fire in Myanmar after a coalition of ethnic fighters seized several crossings along Myanmar’s border with China in the past month. China’s military also says it will continue live-firing drills on its side of the frontier to test its “border control abilities and firepower capabilities” so the

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has committed an additional $168 million in funding for police and other law enforcement officials to monitor 141 people freed after a court ruled indefinite detention of unwanted migrants was unconstitutional. The funding reflects an increase in the workload of law enforcement officials

BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court is holding compensation hearings for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to Beijing. Security was tight around the Chinese capital’s main Chaoyang District Intermediary Court on Monday morning and no detailed information was immediately available. Various theories

by DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Greenpeace activists are engaged in a sit-in protest on a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii. They say the boat is conducting exploration which will be used to justify destroying marine. Australian-owned The Metals Company, whose subsidiary runs the ship, accused

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated Monday as investors awaited updates on consumer spending and inflation in the U.S. and other nations. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 0.4% in morning trading to 33,479.71 after the producer price index in October came in a little higher than expected, at 2.3%.

SAN FRANCISO (AP) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — that it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Christopher Luxon was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday and said his top priority was to improve the economy. The 53-year-old former businessman leads a conservative coalition after his National Party struck a deal Friday with two smaller parties following a general

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest school district says it has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and its roughly 45,000 students will be back in class on Monday after more than three weeks. The agreement must still be voted on by teachers who have been on the picket line since Nov. 1

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts scored the winning touchdown on a quarterback draw with 2:37 left in overtime, and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Buffalo Bills 37-34 on a cold, rainy Sunday. Philadelphia’s Jake Elliott tied the game with a 59-yard field goal with 20 seconds remaining. After the

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Sunday’s airing of the late afternoon games on the NFL RedZone Channel literally went code red. The broadcast was interrupted Sunday when a fire alarm went off in the NFL Network building, which is located across the street from SoFi Stadium in the Hollywood Park complex. Host Scott Hanson informed viewers

By DAKE KANG Associated Press SHENZHEN, China (AP) — A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its strict “zero-COVID” controls, retired architect Zeng Fanzhi is on the road, displaying stark portraits of life under the policy. During that time, millions of people were tested, locked in apartments, or carried off to quarantine centers as

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas captivity, information about the conditions of their confinement has begun to trickle out. The 58 hostages freed under a cease-fire deal over

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a landslide that smashed into homes in an Alaska fishing village days ago. The girl was identified as Kara Heller and she was the fourth person confirmed killed in the landslide Monday night. The girl’s parents, Timothy Heller and Beth Heller,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have found the body of anti-mining activist Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz. Prosecutors said De la Cruz’s body was found Sunday on a rural road in the state of Jalisco near the border with the neighboring state of Colima. They said de la Cruz appeared

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sunday he hopes a meeting of Mediterranean officials will help bridge a gap between Arab and European countries in calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to become a permanent cease-fire. The fragile pause in hostilities between Israel and the