Month: November 2023

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government says that almost half of more than 250 cargo trucks stranded by fighting against ethnic minority armed groups near the northeastern border with China have been destroyed in a fire caused by bombs dropped by drones. The military government blames the attack on the

LONDON (AP) — A crane operator has played down tributes paid to him after he lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in England. Video from the scene in the town of Reading in southern England showed a man being rescued by a crane cage from the roof of a building under

PARIS (AP) — A French army general involved in the preparations says France’s military is planning to contribute 15,000 soldiers to the massive security operation for next year’s Paris Olympics. Gen. Christophe Abad is the military governor of Paris who serves as military adviser to the French capital’s police chief. Abad said Thursday that the

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer shot and killed a man who tried to rob an armored car employee in Tennessee and then, after running into a nearby deli, charged at the officer with two knives. Murfreesboro Police have released body camera footage of the Wednesday shooting, blurring out the face of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say at least two police officers and three civilians were shot dead in an ambush in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The ambush took place Wednesday afternoon near a bird sanctuary in the Mixteca region, the latest in an escalating dispute between two local towns. Investigative police officers

ROME (AP) — Rome prosecutors have asked a judge to archive an investigation into Italian and U.N. health officials over Italy’s 2020 Covid-19 response. The request from Rome prosecutors essentially closes the investigation without any charges. The investigation had focused on whether delayed lockdowns and Italy’s overall preparedness contributed to the toll. Already prosecutors had

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a period of high tensions as Americans headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. The FBI’s decision late Wednesday

LONDON (AP) — Three young children and a woman were injured Thursday in Dublin’s city center in what Irish police have termed “a serious public order incident.” A man also suffered injuries during the violence, which took place outside a school shortly after 1:30 p.m. Citing witnesses at the scene, Irish media said some of

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer It is not a stretch to say that the Black Friday game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets is Amazon’s Super Bowl. Not only does it get an additional game on Prime Video that it hopes to make into a yearly tradition, but it comes on the

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has been sworn in as Ecuador’s president. Daniel Noboa took on the job Thursday during a ceremony in Quito, the South American country’s capital. Ecuadorians are looking to Noboa to restore the public safety that drug cartels and

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to driving under the influence and then striking and killing two state troopers and a pedestrian on an interstate in Philadelphia last year. Twenty-three-year-old Jayana Webb of Eagleville pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Philadelphia courtroom to three counts each of

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A Federal Aviation Administration incident report says the pilot of a small plane that crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas was trying to pull out of a landing before the accident. The Dallas Morning News reports that records released Wednesday show the pilot aborted a

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet, Milei’s office said Thursday. The office did not give a date for when Trump intends to be in Buenos Aires.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Court records show that a man who fatally shot a security guard at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital moments before being killed by a state police trooper was not allowed to have guns, ammunition, or any other dangerous weapons following an arrest in 2016. At that time, police seized an assault-style

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a legal filing of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993. The three-page summons filed Wednesday does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department

LONDON (AP) — A council member at the English Football Association who made an inappropriate post regarding the war in Gaza has resigned from his position. Wasim Haq had been suspended for the comments he made earlier this month on social media. The comments reportedly referred to Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration as new data showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought. The Office for National Statistics on Thursday revised its estimates for net migration to

BERLIN (AP) — German police have arrested two men following raids targeting organized migrant smuggling in the country’s capital and the northern state of Lower Saxony. About 260 officers took part in Thursday’s raids during which eight properties where searched in Lower Saxony and another six in Berlin. The suspects are accused of smuggling more

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russia-dominated security grouping has held a summit in Belarus with the absence of one of its members, Armenia, which has been irked by what it sees as a lack of support over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Speaking during Thursday’s meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed what

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The Slovak government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech and its local partner, InoBat, to build a car battery plant in Slovakia. The two companies formed Gotion InoBat Batteries, a Chinese-Slovak venture to build the plant in the town of Surany. It should

LIVINGSTON, Ky. (AP) — A railroad company is promising hotel rooms and Thanksgiving meals for people asked to evacuate a small Kentucky town after a train derailed, catching fire and spilling chemicals. The CSX train derailed around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near Livingston, a remote town with about 200 people in Rockcastle County. CSX says two

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking to restrict visits to three former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders on trial for war crimes, who they accuse of trying to manipulate witnesses and leak confidential testimony. Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, Parliament ex-speaker Kadri Veseli and former lawmaker Rexhep

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Geert Wilders provided a major boost to Europe’s far-right populists with his election win in the Netherlands. Suddenly on Thursday they felt there was hope in the air again. Especially with a European Parliament election coming up in June. The far right has been buoyed by Wilders’

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and ALEXANDRE PLAZA Associated Press KING GEORGE ISLAND, Antarctica (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the world to slash gases that warm the planet during a visit to Antarctica, a frozen continent that helps regulate Earth’s climate. Warming air and ocean temperatures are causing large amounts of ice to melt,

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells. Nearly 1 million Palestinians have

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Israel and Ukraine could face each other for a spot at next year’s European Championship. Both countries are currently fighting wars. The two national teams were put on the same qualifying path in the playoff draw with a possible deciding match in March. Israel was

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year. The aim is to reduce crowds, encourage longer visits and improve the quality of life for residents. The rollout of the

By LORNE COOK and JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The European Union’s border agency says that it will send dozens of officers and equipment as reinforcements to Finland to help police its borders amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants arriving to the country. Frontex said Thursday that it expects

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary is set to receive 900 million euros ($981 million) in European Union money despite the Hungarian prime minister’s attempts to scupper the bloc’s support for Ukraine. The money is part of the bloc’s REPowerEU program aimed at helping the 27 EU member nations recover from the

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help combat the overdose epidemic that the painkiller triggered. But that does not mean all the victims are satisfied. In exchange for giving up ownership

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group has fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel. The waves of rockets sent over the border represented one of the most intense bombardments since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli posts in the country’s north at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, has suffered a damaging setback as nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership. Effie Achtsioglou, a former Syriza labor minister, led Thursday’s walkout as nine lawmakers declared themselves independent. Party critics have described the new leader, 35-year-old Miami-based businessman Stefanos

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is on course for reelection in a vote boycotted by most opposition candidates. They say conditions were not met for a free and fair vote in the election last week. Rajoelina had received 60% of the votes after 68% of polling stations

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered another huge interest rate hike as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has left households struggling to afford food and other basic goods. The bank on Thursday increased its policy rate by 5 percentage points to 40% to combat inflation that hit 61.36% last month.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian shelling has killed three civilians in southeastern regions of the country. Meanwhile, a Russian television journalist was reported to have died from injuries he sustained in a Ukrainian drone attack. The Ukrainian presidential office said Thursday that southern Ukraine’s Kherson region received eight nighttime artillery barrages, killing

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements. But executives are growing concerned with a spending slowdown that could temper sales on the day after Thanksgiving as well as throughout the

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Riot police have used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital to demand the restoration of the monarchy. The protesters, waving the national flag and chanting slogans supporting