Month: December 2023

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Jailed former Pakistani premier Imran Khan’s party has elected a new head for the first time since it was established,…

BERLIN (AP) — Munich’s airport has canceled all flights for the day after a winter storm dumped snow across southern Germany and parts of Austria…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States is now committed to the idea of phasing out coal power…

By The Associated Press Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government says China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the U.N. Security Council vote to…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The giant waves form in the storm belts of the Southern Ocean, off Antarctica, where whales roam.…

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rain has triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Officials say at least 12…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities say troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery fire, have killed 11…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis plans on Saturday to complete his campaign promise…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — Henry Kissinger’s legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what’s possible, not…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has been jolted by an earthquake that residents dozens of miles away in Dhaka say shook buildings. No damage or…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is making history this year in ways that Republicans could hardly have…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police say they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant,…

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — Dressed up in colorful, multilayered skirts, a group of 20 Indigenous Bolivian women have…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The annual United Nations conference known as COP28 will…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Five homeless people were shot in Las Vegas, two of them fatally, and police say they are searching for a lone suspect. Officials…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska has rejected requests from environmental groups to halt winter…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) — The U.S. is expanding its high-tech military cooperation with Australia and…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials proposed a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx on Friday in a bid to…

MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian military officer accused of injuring dozens, including three U.S. soldiers, in a bombing attack at a Colombian…

By JOHN DUERDEN Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo walked off the field with the gleeful chants of “Messi, Messi,…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of the five former Memphis Police officers charged in the death of…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal correctional officer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for sexually abusing two inmates at a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are searching for a suspect in the fatal shootings of three homeless people in separate incidents around the…

JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. has expelled a former Chilean Army officer accused of torturing and killing folk singer Victor Jara during the…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury in Illinois has delivered a verdict of $17.7 million in damages to several…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby; Ron Dermer, Israeli minister of strategic…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer in 2021 has waived her…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council has voted to end its political mission of a few…

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will temporarily close south and northbound traffic to vehicle and…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that the Florida Legislature didn’t violate the state…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has announced it will start arbitration proceedings to fight the closure order of an…