Month: January 2024

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The longest planned strike in the history of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service has…

BERLIN (AP) — There’s a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants and other tenants at the Berlin Zoo: they can chomp on Christmas…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s military wants to reintroduce obligatory military service as tensions…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press HSINCHU, Taiwan (AP) — With Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections less than two weeks…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The swift and safe evacuation of a Japan Airlines jet that caught fire…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says authorities have arrested women in the Afghan capital Kabul for wearing “bad hijab.”…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The teams at Tennessee State in a three-season span from 1956 through 1959 were nearly unbeatable. They had a…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ALI JABAR Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say an airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A study shows that carbon dioxide emissions in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, dropped to their…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Extremely cold temperatures compounded by strong winds and snow are wreaking havoc across the Nordic region, leaving…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is providing $162 million to Microchip Technology to support the domestic…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French report says the United Kingdom is not sufficiently coordinating with France in efforts to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s intelligence service says it views the young…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Queen Margrethe rode through Denmark’s capital in a gilded, horse-drawn coach as she…

SYDNEY (AP) — The largest male specimen of the world’s most poisonous spider that boasts fangs powerful enough to pierce a human fingernail…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Pressing a button will be one way to summon an artificial intelligence agent as Microsoft wields its…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A father and son in Texas have been charged in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared before Christmas…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say two men have been charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has pardoned nearly 10,000 prisoners to mark the 76th anniversary of gaining independence from…

By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has taken his presidential reelection campaign…

By HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — His face hidden under a humble straw hat, the man stood silent,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks slipped on Thursday, tracking a weak start to 2024 on Wall Street as Japan’s…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Thai restaurant in Fresno, California, is back in operation after being wrongfully accused…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For Iranians backing the country’s theocracy, whose icons since the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean hospital says the country’s main opposition leader…

NEW YORK (AP) — A winter weather system moving through the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mix of snow and freezing…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pilot accused of threatening to shoot a commercial airline captain who wanted to…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is spending the third anniversary of a mob of his supporters…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A less flashy Chinese electric vehicle maker is fast closing the gap with Tesla, the longtime,…

By JULHAS ALAM and AL-EMRUN GARJON Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — For decades, political battles in Bangladesh have been fought on the…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Court records show the subject of an island-wide manhunt New Year’s Day in Hawaii was…

By CLAIRE RUSH The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the theft of medication prescribed to patients at a…

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, REBECCA BOONE and DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amid great hype, a court began to release a new batch of…

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — An Idaho man was arrested after stealing a plane from the North Las Vegas airport, flying it over 100 miles into a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is calling on the U.N. Security Council to take urgent action against…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Regulators have rejected an effort by New Mexico’s largest electric utility…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has reached across the partisan divide to urge a cohesive…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson.…

By KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge was attacked in court by a defendant who vaulted the bench and sparked…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A bill to ban oil and gas production within a mile (1.6 kilometers) of schools and day care centers across New Mexico is…