Month: December 2023

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Rwandan doctor has been sentenced by a Paris court to 24 years in prison for his role in the 1994…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the main parts of an overhaul of the bloc’s outdated asylum rules.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. as measured by the consumer prices index has eased back to its lowest level in…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Filmmakers and movie festival organizers from around the world have called on Iranian authorities to drop all…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks in the U.S., Japan and Germany have risen 20% or more. The U.S. economy grew…

By PAUL WISEMAN and KEN SWEET AP Business Writers The tide turned against inflation. Artificial intelligence went mainstream — for good or ill.…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring…

By The Associated Press Asian shares mostly advanced on Wednesday after Wall Street ticked higher amid hopes that Japan’s moves to keep interest…

Abortion is going to be a major issue in the U.S. again in 2024, the second full year after the nation’s top court ended a right to abortion…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 300 firefighters are battling a blaze on the slopes of a mountain near Cape Town in South Africa for a…

BY ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian court has ordered Airbnb to pay a 15 million Australian dollar ($10…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press It’s clear when states ban abortion. But in the heart-wrenching situations in a…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Habitat for a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press One of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press MENANDS, N.Y. (AP) — Kaine is a big, buoyant dog looking for a home. But lately, he’s spending a lot of time…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities from Minnesota to Maine are adding Native American language translations to…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some states that stockpiled millions of masks and other personal protective equipment during the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some states that stockpiled millions of masks and other personal protective equipment during the…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.? The answer may soon come out of…

By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Just days after right-wing populist Javier Milei became…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo is heading to the polls to vote for president as authorities scramble to finalize…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its exports fell slightly in November from a year earlier while imports declined nearly 12%. Exports to the rest of…

By The Associated Press After blunting Ukraine’s counteroffensive from the summer, Russia is building up its resources for a new stage of the war…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Historic Black communities have dwindled from their once-thriving existence in the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council’s adoption of a new U.N. resolution to spur desperately…

YANGWA, China (AP) — Surrounded by destruction, the relatives of an earthquake victim are mourning her death in temporary shelters and frigid…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Alibaba Group says its CEO Eddie Wu will head its core e-commerce business, as the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A 2021 federal raid on Rudy Giuliani’s home and office was spurred by…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An ethnic armed group in northeastern Myanmar has seized a major crossing point for trade along the Chinese border.…

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former New York Giants running back Derrick Ward has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of robbery. Police say the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A body found in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is defending his comments about migrants…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two Southern California brothers who ran a heroin-delivery operation that took telephone orders…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the public disclosure of the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in a mountain of court…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who served 37 years in prison for the shooting deaths of two people in the 1980s has been released from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea and Russia have clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says the owner of a Kansas company has pleaded guilty in a…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old child who was sentenced by a Mississippi…

NEW YORK (AP) — Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations, the last of the…

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say two children from the West African nation of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of slashing people with a large knife while riding a bicycle on a rail trail in Philadelphia is…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New York City Hall on Tuesday to demand…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors of a massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis says a Federal Elections Commission complaint filed against his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has unanimously confirmed 11 top-ranking military officers. The quick move late Tuesday ends a months-long blockade…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Two former youth counselors charged in the death of a teenager more than three years ago who was restrained at a Michigan…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities in a western Brazil state are…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible…

WASHKISH, Minn. (AP) — A light plane carrying ice anglers broke through thin ice as it tried to land on a large lake in northwestern Minnesota.…