Month: December 2023

MADRID (AP) — A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors on Friday began their second day of deliberations to…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily…

NEW YORK (AP) — A small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City. Lights flickered, a subway line was…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court of the West African regional bloc has ordered the release and reinstatement of…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s victory against Mirror Group Newspapers on Friday over what a British judge called…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The wandering Jack Reacher, created by novelist Lee Child, returns in a second season of “Reacher” on Prime…

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — Police in Mesquite, Texas, say an officer investigating a stolen vehicle fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was in another…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says a long-term agreement between the Baltimore Orioles and the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A number of European Union leaders are trying to use mounting concern about civilian deaths in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones. Next June, Simon & Schuster will…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two private companies have announced a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire, but the two people on board…

Associated Press The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination…

By GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As you plan your holiday giving, you may be thinking about adding service workers to your list of recipients. But…

ROME (AP) — Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Polish prime minister and a top EU leader say that the European Union will by year’s end transfer to Poland the first 5…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say there is continuing fighting in the northeastof the country between the…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has won his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A prosecutor in Denmark says authorities are holding two people in custody and four…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says he will have plenty of opportunities in the future to…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has rejected a request by a group of human rights organizations to order a halt to the transfer to…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. police say they are “relieved and overjoyed” that a teenager found walking along a road in southwestern France is a…

BEIJING (AP) — China has defended controversial cash bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily…

PARIS (AP) — French maritime authorities say they rescued more than 60 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel overnight Friday but that…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say penitentiary…