Month: January 2024

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a cable car has crashed in a skiing region in western Austria, and all four people on board were seriously injured. A tree…

By DAVID HAMILTON and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers The Biden administration has enacted a new labor rule that aims to prevent the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish appeals court has upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of…

By HUSSEIN MALLA Associated Press GHANDOURIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s military says no damage was caused to one of its army bases in northern…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors have opened an investigation into countless tiny plastic pellets washing up on the country’s northwest…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government says face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and healthcare centers starting Wednesday due to a surge in…

MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S. citizen has been arrested on drug charges in Russia, a move that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine. The…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan navy spokesman says the debt-ridden country’s navy is preparing…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The former president of a top-division soccer team in Turkey has told a court he regretted attacking a referee at the end of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s national elections commission has registered the Communist Party’s candidate to  compete with President Vladimir Putin…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s transportation ministry says it has introduced improved emergency measures for the…

By MATTHEW LEE, NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks in Israel on…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — At least three people have been hospitalized after mistakenly eating colorful pods of liquid laundry detergent that were…

By JIM GOMEZ, JOEAL CALUPITAN AND AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s leading presidential candidate William Lai says he hopes for a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s defense ministry has issued an alert saying China has launched a satellite and urging caution days before the…

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An officer wounded in a bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers has died in a hospital in…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has temporarily grounded three Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners, following an…

By DAVID KOENIG, CLAIRE RUSH and TOM KRISHER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal investigators say a door panel slid up before flying…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced Tuesday after Wall Street rallied to claw back almost all the losses…

By ANUPAM NATH and WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) — Voters in Bhutan, a landlocked country in the eastern Himalayan mountain…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament has endorsed legislation outlawing the centuries-old practice of consuming dog meat. The…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two council members from the City of Oakland have mailed a letter to Oakland Athletics…

By NATACHA PISARENKO and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press MERCEDES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of faithful Argentines flock every year to the…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in politically liberal San Francisco will vote on a resolution calling for a…

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to deliver her annual State of the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Yoshie Minamidani’s heart leapt when she saw the stray tabby cat, a mainstay of the famous Asaichi…

MADISON, Wis, (AP) — A sprawling storm that pelted much of the nation’s midsection with more than a half a foot of snow and gusty winds…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — In the center of a desolate and cold Plaza Mexico stadium, a young matador raises a red…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign is hoping to generate a commanding win in Iowa’s…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election integrity activists argue Georgia’s voting system is vulnerable to attack and has…

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is set to return for the first time in…

CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a shooter killed two people at a small-town Minnesota motel Monday night and the suspect was later found…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo has announced his Cabinet picks ahead of his scheduled swearing-in Sunday,…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Blake Corum ran for 134 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns as Jim Harbaugh and No.…

SYDNEY (AP) — Four people have been charged over an alleged plot to smuggle hundreds of Australian native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong. Police…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps says Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant, has had open heart surgery and is…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sotheby’s is defending itself at a federal court trial against accusations that it…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The United States and the United Kingdom said the elections that extended Bangladesh Prime…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was moving to remove his own book from circulation Monday, after learning…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press HARVEY, Ill. (AP) — The viral video of a 73-year-old man who got boarded up inside his low-income apartment is…

By TERRY SPENCER and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The loud “boom” was startling enough, and the roaring wind that…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The National Park Service is retracting a proposal to take down a statue of William Penn at a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set a mid-March special election date to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by former Speaker…

By KANIS LEUNG and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are…