Month: February 2024

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — People in two districts of England are voting in special elections that could spell bad news for…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans filed for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to show resilience in the face of…

BANGKOK (AP) — City employees in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have been ordered to work from home for two days as air pollution soars to…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gunfire erupted at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, leaving one woman dead and more than 20 people…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert’s next book will be light on politics, if not always light on the palate. Celadon Books announced Thursday that…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities say they will not reopen an investigation into a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea that killed 852 people…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Albania to reaffirm relations with a…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s iconic underground train map will be rebranded. The city’s mayor has announced a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The foreign ministers of Britain and Poland have appealed to the U.S. Congress and personally to its speaker to take the…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of South Korean doctors have rallied in the capital Seoul and other cities…

MOSCOW (AP) — A liberal Russian politician has lost an appeal contesting the decision by election official barring him from running in next…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Lawmakers in Norway have slammed a decision this week by a southern city to only take in Ukrainian refugees and not…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government plans to boost its defense spending by up to 19% over the next four years. It cites rising global…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It shouldn’t take long for Caitlin Clark to become the NCAA women’s career scoring leader…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is giving airports $970 million for improvements in terminals including things like wider concourses,…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegrin state television says a fire killed two children and two women in a makeshift Roma settlement. The report…

By LORNE COOK and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s chief is warning member countries not to allow a wedge to be driven…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s presidential office claims that the country’s move to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say a search and rescue mission is underway after a cargo ship with six crew members on board sank in the Turkish…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russia has fired cruise and ballistic missiles at a broad area of…

ROME (AP) — Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza and what he termed a disproportionate…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two South African soldiers were killed and three injured when a mortar landed in…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday in Paris.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 as output shrank more than anticipated in…

By TOM ODULA and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press LOISABA CONSERVANCY, Kenya (AP) — Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Anthony Albanese has become first Australian prime minister to get engaged in office.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose in Asia on Thursday after Wall Street stocks recovered much of their sharp…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza early on…

BEIRUT (AP) — The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese media reported Thursday, making the previous…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has struck down a controversial election funding system that allowed…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Another private U.S. company is taking a shot at the moon, launching a month after a…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A trial is scheduled to begin Thursday in North Dakota’s years-old lawsuit seeking $38…

By BERNAT ARMANGUE and TARA COPP Associated Press ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (AP) — Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — What a difference a few decades can make. Queen Camilla, once seen as the scourge of the House of…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The former mother-in-law of the woman who opened fire at a Houston megachurch tried for years to…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge will consider whether Texas can enforce a new law starting in March that…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A panel investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history is going to hear from state police, the lead law enforcement…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK INGRAM Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York lawsuit claiming National Rifle Association executives wildly misspent millions of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press LEDEGEM, Belgium (AP) — Farmers have always lived by the whim of nature, but fickle regulation they find more…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s vaunted independent voters are becoming scarcer as Super Tuesday approaches.…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUNICH (AP) — Long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order, the Munich…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s border proposal was one of the toughest bipartisan…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament is set to legalize same-sex civil marriage. That would be a first for an Orthodox Christian…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to be back in a New York court Thursday for a hearing that could…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Browne, ever the master showman of American fashion, closed out New York Fashion Week on…