Month: December 2023

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, has agreed to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. The century-old dispute between the two South American nations recently reignited with the discovery of masses of oil in

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A nationwide power blackout hit Kenya Sunday evening, paralyzing parts of the country, including the main airport in the capital Nairobi, a major transport hub connecting East Africa to Asia, Europe and other parts of the world. Sunday’s outage began around 8 p.m. local time and was the third

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James is poised to make his college debut for Southern California nearly five months after he suffered cardiac arrest. The 19-year-old freshman joined his teammates for on-court warmups 90 minutes before tipoff Sunday. He’s likely to come off the bench for the Trojans against

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The city of Maceio’s civil defense authority says a mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem has collapsed in the coastal city of Maceio, the capital of northeastern Alagoas state. Video the authority distributed shows a sudden murky bubbling of the water

Associated Press At least nine people have been killed in Brazil’s Amazonian state of Para when a discharge of high-voltage electricity sparked a fire in an encampment of landless workers. The cause of the discharge was faulty installation of internet wiring, according to a statement from the rural landless workers movement in Para. Three of

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An African regional bloc says Sudan’s warring generals have agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war. In a statement Sunday, the bloc says the Sudanese generals agreed to “an unconditional

NEWRY, Maine (AP) — Santa’s helpers are taking the day off to hit the slopes in Maine. With beards and stocking caps flapping, about 300 Santas dressed in red were lively and quick as they took a break from the holiday hustle at the foggy Sunday River ski resort in western Maine. The annual event

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency has warned that Afghans could die in harsh winter conditions if they don’t get adequate shelter once they cross the border from Pakistan. Almost half a million Afghans have left Pakistan since early October, when the Islamabad government announced it would arrest and deport foreigners it said

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Catholic priest in a small Nebraska community died after being attacked in the church rectory. The Rev. Stephen Gutgsell was assaulted “during an invasion at the rectory” of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun. The Archdiocese of Omaha says he was taken to the University

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s is No. 1 at the North American box office for the first time in his decades-spanning career. According to studio estimates Miyazaki’s latest enchanting film “The Boy and the Heron” debuted with $12.8 million. The long-awaited animated fantasy from the

PARIS (AP) — Lost a very expensive diamond ring? Try checking the vacuum cleaner. That’s what employees of Paris’ luxury Ritz hotel did — and got lucky. Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that a Malaysian guest of the hotel filed a police complaint Friday alleging that a diamond ring vanished from her room. The newspaper

BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in the Belgian and German capitals to protest soaring antisemitism since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The demonstrations on Sunday in Brussels and Berlin were the latest in a series of rallies in European capitals that have expressed support for Jewish communities. Previous marches in Paris

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say the pursuit of a suspected gunman ended in a shootout that left two officers and a suspect wounded. Officers were responding to reports of shots fired when they saw a pickup truck that was believed to have been involved in the earlier shooting. They tried to stop the truck,

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For years, climate change has been a factor — not the only one — in wars and conflicts, but now for the first time it’s part of a peace deal. A long-time stand-off that had turned the choice for next year’s United Nations

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is defending the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition. And he’s pressing for quick congressional approval of more than $100 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and other national security priorities. Blinken said in interviews on the

BERLIN (AP) — Several thousand people have demonstrated against antisemitism in Berlin as Germany grapples with a large increase in anti-Jewish incidents following Hamas’ attack on Israel two months ago. Police estimated that around 3,200 people gathered in the rain in the German capital, while organizers put the figure at 10,000. Participants in the protest,

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s jaw-dropping $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to other contracts for the world’s biggest sports stars, including soccer icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, along with NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes. In terms of his marketability, experts point to

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. According to prosecutors in the state of Baja California, a half-dozen local and state

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Navy divers have recovered the remains of the seventh of the eight crew members from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off southern Japan during a training mission. The Air Force CV-22 Osprey went down on Nov. 29 just off Yakushima Island in southwestern Japan while

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JOHN RABY Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Central Tennessee residents and emergency workers are continuing the cleanup from severe weekend storms that killed six people and sent more to the hospital.  Government officials confirmed that three people died after an apparent tornado struck Montgomery County north of Nashville near the

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Joe Biden, a centerpiece of his reelection campaign is trying to negatively define Donald Trump in the public’s eye. It’s a strategy that’s aimed at reminding voters about the confrontational nature of Trump’s first term and laying out what could happen if the front-runner for

LONDON (AP) — A woman has been charged with four counts of manslaughter after two sets of young twins were killed in a fire that ripped through a London home in 2021. London’s Metropolitan Police say Deveca Rose, 29, has also been charged with child abandonment. She is scheduled to appear at Croydon Magistrates Court

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried. It’s unclear how the United Arab Emirates, an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms, uses the footage it gathers across its extensive network.

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is considering changes to the immigration system in exchange for providing money to Ukraine in its fight against Russia and Israel for the war with Hamas. President Joe Biden has said he’s willing to make “significant compromises on the border” to meet Republican demands that the foreign

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Leaders from across West Africa are meeting in Nigeria in a renewed push for respect for democracy across the coup-hit region. At the meeting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, the leaders acknowledged for the first time that their efforts to stem the tide of coups have met

By TARA COPP Associated Press F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — The control stations for America’s nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says “launch.” Those underground capsules are about to

HELSINKI (AP) — The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital. Mohammadi is renowned for campaigning for women’s rights and democracy in her country. Ali and Kiana Rahmani, Mohammadi’s twin 17-year-old children who live in exile

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is heading to Buenos Aires to witness the swearing-in of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei. It is the Ukrainian leader’s first-ever trip to Latin America as Kyiv continues to court support among developing nations for its 21-month-old fight against Russia’s invading forces. A political outsider who has

By The Associated Press Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. It comes after Musk posted a poll this weekend on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that came out 70% in favor of the Infowars host who repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India and SIBI ARASU, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European Union’s plan to impose a tax on the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer

PARIS (AP) — France says one of its warships in the Red Sea has been targeted by drones coming from Yemen. Both were shot down. A short statement on Sunday from the Armies Ministry did not say who fired the two drones at the French Navy frigate Languedoc on Saturday night. It said they came

By REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) — Two boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, including emaciated women and children, arrived at Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Sunday morning after being adrift for over weeks. One boat, which had been lost at sea for about one and a

By The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians are voting in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is certain to win another term. That will keep him in power until 2030. The vote runs for three days, starting Sunday, with a runoff scheduled for Jan. 8-10 if

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.N. says the Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan. Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have erased basic rights and freedoms, with women and girls deeply affected. They are excluded from most public spaces and daily life. On Sunday, which is Human Rights Day and

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting raged overnight and into Sunday in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive after the U.S. blocked the latest international efforts to halt the fighting and rushed more munitions to its close ally.

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile has accused China of denying the most fundamental human rights to people in Tibet and vigorously carrying out the extermination of the Tibetan identity. Tenpa Tsering, in a statement marking World Human Rights Day on Sunday, also took exception to

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin is once again teasing that he could make a third-party run for the White House. Manchin at a Washington roast on Saturday joked that the country could use someone slightly younger that 81-year-old President Joe Biden or the 77-year-old former President Donald Trump. Manchin

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to receive the European Union’s top human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini’s death while in police custody sparked nationwide protests in 2022 that rocked the Islamic Republic. The U.S.-based civil rights

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh will hold its next general election on Jan. 7, but the country’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, has boycotted the race. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is seeking to return to power for a fourth consecutive time as candidates

By JOSHUA A. BICKEL, DAVID KEYTON and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks and the summit’s president is determined to

By The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. Looming over his presidency is the stalemated war in Ukraine and

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries like Senegal, Bangladesh and China being dropped in a remote desert area in Arizona. The area around Lukeville is hours away by car to