Month: February 2024

LONDON (AP) — The Japanese Grand Prix will stay on the Formula One calendar until at least 2029 after a five-year contract extension  to keep the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian intelligence official says that the country has repeatedly asked Russia to hand…

TOKYO (AP) — Winger Junya Ito has been removed from Japan’s squad at the Asian Cup in the midst of sexual assault allegations that he has…

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Pardons Board has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year prison sentence by half and sharply…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities have issued several warnings for landslides and avalanches in southern Norway as bad weather continues to…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has rolled out a flurry of measures to help prop up its ailing property market, while…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest. Immigration…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice is set to rule on whether it has jurisdiction to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday, helped by optimism about technology shares following a Wall…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s path to the Republican presidential nomination is rapidly…

By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well…

By JOSH FUNK and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Daily life largely returned to normal for the nearly 5,000 residents…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — From its inception, the newscast La Verdrag was meant to radically…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will join grieving families at Dover Air…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming concert in Tokyo to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police are investigating alleged death threats made against referees involved the Rugby World Cup in…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hardly a day goes by without news of another set of layoffs or business failure in journalism, an…

By JULIE WATSON and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Fire officials say a small plane has crashed into a home at a Florida mobile home park, killing several people aboard the…

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil’s winter weather forecast is being announced in Gobbler’s Knob, the scene of the country’s largest…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is expected to report that employers added a solid 177,000 jobs in…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police came to the aid of a three-year-old boy after he became trapped inside a claw machine at a surbuban…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Officials from South Africa’s national electoral commission have visited…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say gas explosions at an industrial building in Kenya’s capital sent a plume of…

By ALBA ALEMÁN Associated Press TLACOTALPAN, Mexico (AP) — For nearly a quarter century, the residents of this riverside town in southeastern…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — A ship carrying thousands of livestock that has been stranded at sea for almost a month has finally docked in Australia,…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For decades, India has focused its defense policy on its land borders with rivals Pakistan…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors are weighing a potential perjury charge against Donald Trump’s former…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday to advance to the Super Bowl,…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine six proposed maps redrawing state…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal investigators were working Thursday to try to determine what caused a steel airplane…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press U.N. experts say the terrorist threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and their affiliates remains high…

BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will…