Month: February 2024

BEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of the Bank of China has been indicted on bribery charges, adding to a long list of business and government…

PRAGUE (AP) — Hundreds of tractors have blocked a lane in downtown Prague in a farmers protest over European Union agriculture policies and what…

BERLIN (AP) — An American man is on trial Kempten, Southern Germany for murder and other offenses after he allegedly pushed two women from the U.S.…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Associated Press has won the best documentary prize at the British Academy Film Awards for…

PARIS (AP) — Visits to the Eiffel Tower are being disrupted because of a strike over poor financial management of the monument, which is one of the…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Moroccan navy has intercepted 141 people attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean as…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rain and snowfall has buried more than two dozen houses in a remote village in eastern Afghanistan,…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been denied access to a morgue where his body is…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Authorities in Rwanda have rejected U.S. calls for the withdrawal of troops and missile…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka by eliminating the last pocket of resistance at the eastern Ukraine…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The longtime prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive is spilling the beans for the first…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Indianapolis has killed one person and wounded five others. Local media report the…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors say that further investigation is needed to decide whether to bring former…

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have clashed with Muslim militants in a gunbattle that has left at least seven soldiers and…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Historic hearings are opening at the United Nations’ top court into the…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Trainee doctors in South Korea have begun resigning en masse in protest of a government…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia after Chinese markets reopened Monday from a long Lunar…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis community was in mourning on Monday…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Alexei Navalny was asked four years ago what he’d tell Russians if he were killed for…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Republicans hoping to pick up an open U.S. Senate seat in deep blue Maryland have the most…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The latest in a series of wet winter storms is gaining strength in California. Forecasters warned Monday of possible flooding,…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are raising alarms about what they see as America’s failure to compete with China…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing what could be his final court hearing in England over…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Debate over school funding is dominating the Alaska Legislature as districts faces teacher…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is hosting a conference for Japanese and Ukrainian officials to discuss reconstruction of…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from MGMT and Allie X, “Avatar: The Last Airbender”…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press SAINT-BREVIN-LES-PINS, France (AP) — The mayor of a small resort town on the Atlantic coast of France resigned,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The number of passengers flying through Dubai International Airport surged last…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The first half of the All-Star Game was record-setting, and not exactly the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Tuesday on an Arab-backed resolution…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack on a Belize-flagged ship…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Police have arrested two people on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl’s body encased in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is to host a reconstruction conference for Ukraine ahead of the two-year anniversary of…

By PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO (AP) — Romina Cortés couldn’t pronounce her sister’s last name. She didn’t know what she smells…

By VIN A. CHERWOO AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Artemi Panarin scored 10 seconds into overtime and the New York Rangers rallied…

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have retired Jaromir Jagr’s iconic No. 68. The NHL’s second…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police say 53 men have been massacred in tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, Australian state media reported on…

LONDON (AP) — Police say a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead in southwest England. The Avon and…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The latest in a series of wet winter storms is blowing ashore in Northern California. Forecasters warned on Sunday of possible…

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AP) — Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic…

By DAN GELSTON and MARK LONG AP Sports Writers DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Pitbull and DJ Khaled represented South…

LONDON (AP) — “Oppenheimer” was the big winner at the British Academy Film Awards, taking seven trophies including best picture, director for…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided, according to officials and…