Month: January 2024

LONDON (AP) — Chinese premier Li Qiang is arriving in Ireland on Tuesday for talks with the Irish leader on China’s relations with the European Union and other global and bilateral issues. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar will host a lunch and bilateral meeting with Li on Wednesday. Li is a close confidant of Chinese

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Police in Estonia have arrested a Russian professor teaching at the Baltic country’s most prestigious university on suspicions of spying for Moscow. Estonian Internal Security Service said Tuesday it launched an investigation into Vyacheslav Morozov, a Russian national and professor of international politics at the University of Tartu, for his alleged

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Experts are analyzing a new set of small mud volcanoes that have been discovered in recent days in the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad that have prompted authorities to prepare evacuation plans. Officials say they plan to meet with residents in the eastern part of the island this week

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Business and conservative interest groups hoping to limit the power of regulators believe they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into their holds by the millions. The Supreme Court is about to take up lower profile but vitally

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Guinness World Records says it has suspended the title of oldest dog ever that was held by a Portuguese dog that died last year. The publication said it was reviewing the title after some veterinarians questioned his age, The guard dog was announced as the world’s oldest living dog and oldest

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s director of public prosecutions has ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty and child torture, among other crimes, over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the church. The director was responding to pressure

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Correction Department says that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra shouldn’t be called an inmate even though he is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of wrongdoing in office. The agency felt it necessary to explain that it is not being deferential to the controversial former leader when it refers to

NEW YORK (AP) — New fiction from Christina Dodd and Allie Condie and the latest young adult work from Tracey Baptiste will be excerpted in a free e-compilation that also features dozens of other works scheduled to come out over the new several months. “Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer” was released Tuesday by the industry newsletter

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico say five people have been killed in a drive-by shooting that forced authorities to close a portion of a highway.  Three of the victims were found dead inside a pickup in the eastern coastal town of Ceiba, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth was found on

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week that saw two of its commandos go missing. That’s according to a U.S. military statement Tuesday. The raid marks the latest seizure by the

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press Celeste Saulo, the new secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, has said her administration will prioritize the strengthening of early warning systems to help reduce the risk of weather disasters worsened by climate change. The systems enable monitoring of the atmosphere in real time to predict weather events. They help

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian emergency services says at least eight passengers died and an estimated 100 are missing after their boat capsized in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state. The emergency services said Tuesday that the passengers were being conveyed to a market in the neighboring Kebbi state from Niger state’s

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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media says that rescuers are evacuating tourists from a remote skiing area in the country’s northwest where dozens of avalanches triggered by heavy snow have trapped more than 1,000 people for a week. The avalanches have blocked roads, stranding both tourists and residents in a village in Altay prefecture in

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing rebellion from senior lawmakers in his Conservative Party over his stalled plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. The party’s liberal and authoritarian wings are at loggerheads over the plan. Moderates worry the policy is too extreme,

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese media say a Korean Air plane carrying 289 people hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft while taxiing to a runway at northern Japan’s New Chitose Airport. The Kyodo News agency reports that the KAL airliner was heading to a runway for a takeoff when it bumped into the empty Cathay Pacific

ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has convicted the son of Somalia’s president over the death of a motorcycle courier and sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison. It then commuted the sentence to a fine. Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was charged with “causing death by negligence” after a diplomatic car he was driving

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the plant’s decommissioning plans even after a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1 caused minor damage to another idled nuclear plant. The quake in

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A newspaper in Norway says the country is halting adoptions of children from the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea pending an investigation into several allegedly illegal cases. The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs told the VG newspaper that families already assigned a child from the the Philippines,

By SALAR SALIM and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq recalled its ambassador from Tehran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad on Tuesday in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians overnight, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said. The Iranian attack was “a blatant violation of

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat has hosted his North Korean counterpart for talks on expanding ties between their countries amid international concerns over an alleged arms cooperation deal between Moscow and Pyongyang. Sergei Lavrov greeted North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on Tuesday and said they would discuss “active work” on implementing the

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps. Aides tell The Associated Press that Emhoff will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week. He’ll also promote gender

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will hold his first prime-time news conference on Tuesday to announce his top priorities for the year as he seeks to revitalize his presidency. Macron vowed to focus on “results” despite not having a majority in parliament. More than three years before the

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Philippine ambassador and denounced remarks by the country’s President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday congratulating the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election, Lai Ching-te. Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporter Tuesday that Marcos’s remarks “seriously violated the political commitments made by the Philippines to China, and

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union presidency is warning that the foundations of democracy will be put to the test during the November U.S. elections. It envisaged a scenario where the longstanding trans-Atlantic alliance could unravel ever more. Belgium holds the EU presidency and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Tuesday that “if 2024

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say a blast at a Serbian factory that produces tires, protective gear and industrial explosives has killed one person and injured four. A statement says the explosion occurred around 9 a.m. Tuesday at the fuel strip production unit of the Trayal Coorporation factory in the central city of Krusevac.

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writers So it be, so it is, as Cousin Greg would say: “Succession” had a fittingly successful sendoff at the Emmys, the addictive saga of the roiling Roy family dynasty winning best drama for a third time and five more awards, including three top acting prizes. But

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, MATTHEW BROWN and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Dangerously cold wind chills continued to affect much of the Rockies, Great Plains and Midwest on Tuesday, with wind chills below minus 30 degrees (minus 34.4 C) in many parts of the central U.S. About 110,000 U.S. homes and businesses were

By STEPHEN WADE Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has been asked to stop a disputed $2.45 billion project that would turn a city park district into a largely commercial area anchored by three skyscrapers. The project also threatens nearly 150 ginkgo trees, a species that is considered a living fossil. The

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Tuesday in Asia, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down nearly 2%, as jitters over Chinese markets dimmed confidence across the region. U.S. markets were closed Monday, leaving investors without cues from overnight trading. Early Tuesday, the future for the S&P 500 was 0.4% lower, and

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife are seeking separate trials on bribery charges they each face in a New York court. The New Jersey Democrat and his wife, Nadine, were each charged in the fall with aiding three New Jersey businessmen in return for cash, gold bars and a luxury

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Vivek Ramaswamy has suspended his campaign for president, cutting the field of Republican candidates to four. Ramaswamy made his announcement after former President Donald Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses on Monday. The wealthy biotech entrepreneur and conservative author finished fourth, behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Long Island prosecutors say they are planning a major announcement in Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann’s case. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney is set to make the announcement after a court hearing in the case in Riverhead, New York on Tuesday. Heuermann was charged in July with the

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John has achieved the monumental EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist secured an Emmy Award on Monday night for outstanding variety special (live) for his Disney+ special “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.” John says he was “incredibly humbled” for joining the

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ABOARD A FRENCH AIR FORCE AWACS (AP) — Off in the distance, Ukraine, fighting for its survival. Seen from up here, in the cockpit of a French air force surveillance plane flying over neighboring Romania, the snow-dusted landscapes look deceptively peaceful. The dead from Russia’s war, the shattered Ukrainian towns

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to attend the penalty phase of a New York civil defamation trial stemming from a columnist’s claims that he sexually attacked her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. A May trial found Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll,

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headlining a frenzied first full day of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where top officials from the United States, the European Union, China, the Middle East and beyond will also take center stage