Month: November 2023

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador President Daniel Noboa — less than 48 hours into his term — has repealed controversial guidelines that eliminated penalties for people found carrying illegal drugs under certain amounts. Noboa’s Friday decision fulfilled a campaign promise to fight drug trafficking. Consequences of the illegal trade, particularly cocaine, have kept Ecuadorians on

BY JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege has kicked off his campaign for next month’s presidential election. He’s promising to tackle corruption and the violent conflict upending lives in the country’s eastern region. The 68-year-old renowned medical doctor told supporters in eastern Bukavu city that

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Star skipper Jimmy Spithill plans to start a new Italian team following his departure from the United States SailGP team. Spithill says he can’t disclose any specifics about the U.S. team other than a new group is bringing in its own CEO and driver, the

ROME (AP) — Players and coaches across the top men’s soccer league in Italy have had red marks painted on their faces to promote a campaign for the elimination of violence against women. The Serie A initiative coincided with rallies in the country to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Officials have recovered the flight data recorder from a U.S. Navy airplane that overshot the runway near Honolulu. The Navy says it’s still investigating the cause and are working on a plan to recover the large plane from the water. The Navy coducted surveys of the plane Thursday to assess the

By TRISHA AHMED AND MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state prosecutors say former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is expected to survive serious injury after being stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona where he’s serving time for the murder of George Floyd. Minnesota attorney general’s office spokesman

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Rep. George Santos has said he expected to be expelled from Congress following a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence of lawbreaking by the New York Republican. The comments on Friday came during a three-hour conversation on X Spaces in which

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) — A cautious calm has prevailed over the border area in south Lebanon. Saturday was the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. Villages in south Lebanon that had emptied of their residents have come back to life at least briefly. Lebanon and

NEW DELHI (AP) — News reports in India say that at least four students have died and 60 others have been injured in a stampede during a music festival at a university in southern India. The news agency Press Trust of India reported that the disaster happened Saturday at the Cochin University of Science and

LONDON (AP) — The British Antarctic Survey says that one of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades. The iceberg known as A23a split from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. But it became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many

NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling several hundred thousand 2023-2024 Accord and HR-V vehicles due to a missing piece in the front seat belt pretensioners, which could increase injury risks during a crash. According to notices published by Honda and the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration earlier this week, the pretensioners — which tighten

By VANESSA GERA and JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Russia threatened retaliation against Finland after its Nordic neighbor joined NATO earlier this year. Now hundreds of migrants from the Middle East and Africa have appeared at Finland’s border from Russia. Finnish officials say the sudden surge in asylum-seekers is no coincidence. They accuse

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space.

LONDON (AP) — A protester has been arrested in London on suspicion of inciting racial hatred as tens of thousands of people joined a pro-Palestinian march calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. The National March for Palestine on Saturday is the latest in several huge protests that have dominated the British capital’s streets every

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells. She carried them across the Mekong River as the family fled the Communist takeover of

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say militants in a northern West Bank refugee camp have shot and killed two suspected collaborators with Israel. Footage shows mobs attacking the two corpses early Saturday, kicking them and dragging the bloodied bodies through alleys before trying to tie them to an electrical tower.

By ALEXA ST. JOHN The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing taste for SUVs, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests. Electric vehicles are a solution, but large gas-powered cars are incredibly popular, especially

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A local official in Congo says militants from a shadowy extremist organization with ties to the Islamic State Group killed at least 14 farmers in Congo’s hard-hit eastern region. The Allied Democratic Forces attacked Mamove village in North Kivu province on Friday night where they beheaded

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs is sitting idle in Congress. It’s neither approved nor rejected, but it’s being subjected to new political demands. Republicans are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy provisions in exchange for any new U.S.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from Japan and China have met for bilateral talks as they try to resolve disputes including China’s ban on Japanese seafood that has badly hit Japanese exporters. The pair met in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan. They will join their South Korean host

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend in a case that has shaken the country has been extradited from Germany. Twenty-one-year-old Filippo Turetta landed at the Venice airport around mid-morning. He will be immediately transferred to a prison in the northern city of Verona to face

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say government forces’ shelling of a northwestern village has killed at least nine people, including six children. The Saturday morning shelling of the village of Qawqafeen is the latest violation of a truce reached in March 2020 between Russia and Turkey, who back rival sides in Syria’s 12-year conflict

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a blaze has killed at least 10 people in a shopping mall. The multi-story RJ Mall is in a high-rise commercial building that also houses call centers and software firms. The mayor of the southwestern city of Karachi said Saturday morning’s fire injured at least 22 people. Rescue

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has canceled his audiences scheduled for Saturday morning because he has a slight fever.  “The Holy Father’s audiences scheduled for this morning are canceled due to a mild flu,” the statement says. The pope is due to travel on Friday to Dubai for the COP28 conference on

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched Saturday morning its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting the Ukrainian capital, military officials said. “Kyiv was the main target,” wrote Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk, on his Telegram channel. In total, Russia launched around 75 Iranian-made Shahed

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. That’s according to an American defense official who spoke Saturday to The Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials say they have stopped digging to rescue 41 construction workers who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India after the drilling machine broke down. Arnold Dix, an international expert assisting the rescue team at the accident site in Uttarakhand state, said Saturday it

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state news agency says an avalanche killed five mountain climbers and injured four others in west Iran. Rescue teams recovered the bodies of five climbers from San Boran peak, some 300 kilometers (about186 miles) southwest of the capital Tehran, IRNA news agency said, while the other four injured were taken

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas is expected to swap more of its hostages for prisoners held by Israel on the second day of a cease-fire. The deal has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and given civilians their first respite after

By DAVID R. MARTIN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press ELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems. Globally, about a third of food is wasted. In the United States, it’s even higher,

By BILL BARROW and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to use a college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in South Carolina while potentially upstaging his Republican opponent Nikki Haley on her home turf. The front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination will be on hand

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips, who is running for president and challenging Joe Biden in the primary, has announced that he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2024. The 54-year-old Minnesota congressman said Friday it is time to pass the torch after three terms in

Mexico’s Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, raising claims of censorship. The conference had been scheduled to begin in two days time. Organizers said they were forced to cancel the event, which would have focused on the

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Georgia can keep statewide elections for its five-member commission regulating utilities. The Friday ruling overturns a lower court judge who found statewide elections for public service commissioners illegally diluted Black votes. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says federal

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a defunct Colorado funeral home where 190 sets of decomposing human remains were found have been returned to the state to face hundreds of felony charges. Jon and Carie Hallford face more than 250 felony charges, including 190 counts of abuse of a corpse and 50 counts

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sullivan; Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sullivan; Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo.; Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden spent much of his day after Thanksgiving focused on work. But he was able to get out for some play. The president and his extended family indulged in their usual activities on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket on Friday. That included lunch

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny “water monsters.” In their main habitat the population density of Mexican axolotls