Month: December 2023

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Christmas Day meant the same as any other for thousands of migrants walking through…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The president of Belarus says Russia has completed its shipments of short-range, tactical nuclear weapons to his country,…

Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose country’s relations with Russia grew tense this year, says that when…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Christmas carries more than spiritual weight for many Ukrainians this year: for the first time, the country is observing it as…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift celebrated Christmas Day by watching her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce…

By ABDELRAHMAN ZEYAD and HOGIR ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Turkey has intensified its airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iranian state media say that an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood has killed a…

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas…

MOSCOW (AP) — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shipping firm Maersk says it is preparing to allow vessels to resume sailing through the Red Sea. It comes at the start…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force on Monday reported that it shot down two Russian fighter jets during the night along with two cruise…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police said Monday they have detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal…

By SAMY MAGDY, NAJIB JOBAIN and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has put forward an ambitious, initial proposal to end the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday, according to the National Retail…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots…

By CHRISTOPHE ENA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press VATRY, France (AP) — A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking…

Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in a California community are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run collision that killed two…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s emergencies ministry says a fire broke out on a nuclear-powered container ship and icebreaker in the northern port of…

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing recorded the most hours of sub-freezing temperatures in December in more than seven decades as a cold wave has enveloped…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105 online games,…

Associated Press HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California authorities say a fire started at a California home while an armed suspect remained inside…

By MOHAMMAD HABIB RAHMANI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police say they have freed 290 activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Monday after Wall Street capped its eighth straight winning week…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is giving his Christmas message from Buckingham Palace with a live Christmas tree in the background. The message to…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been fatally shot and three people were hurt at a shopping center in Colorado. The…

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor hit…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police say one of the country’s most wanted criminals has turned…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Jason Sanders had waited all season for this moment. On a Miami Dolphins team that…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Nussbaum, reputed as the oldest professional actor in America with a prolific stage career…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the…

SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — A large avalanche and blizzard conditions have cut off road access to much of the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. The…