Month: March 2024

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new report says the British government’s contentious plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda could cost nearly half a billion British pounds, plus hundreds of thousands more for each deported person. The report released on Friday by the National Audit Office comes

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks. Between 80 and 100 activists have been camping in the forest since early Thursday, according to an

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers have submitted a no-confidence motion accusing the governing party of trying to push through a budget bill without adequate debate because of disruptions caused by a scandal over its fund-raising practices. They slammed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for failing to provide details about

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb has been sworn as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member. Theformer prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö, who held the job for two six-year terms. Finland joined

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A government minister in Liberia says that violent protests over the presence of an armed force in mining areas in the country’s northwest resulted in the death of one demonstrator and multiple injuries. Protesters and police officers in the mining town of Kinjor were both

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation just keeps dropping in Europe. The consumer price index fell to 2.6 in February from 2.8% the month before. Falling oil and gas prices played a role, and food inflation isn’t as bad as it was. Inflation is now far below its peak of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The new prime minister in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu says his country shares democratic values with Taiwan, and that Taiwanese leaders have “been loyal to us.” Feleti Teo spoke to The Associated Press on Friday via Zoom, his first interview with international media since

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza. George Galloway, who’s 69 years old, swept to victory in Thursday’s

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country’s prime minister said Friday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 and rescuers continued to search for more victims. The fire started late Thursday in a restaurant on the first floor of

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, says it will stop publishing a print edition this month, the latest blow to the country’s dwindling independent media. It wrote on

BERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say four people have been killed in shootings in northern Germany and the suspect is a soldier who turned himself in. Authorities said Friday that the four victims, including a child, were shot overnight at locations in the rural Scheessel and Bothel areas, near Hannover and Bremen. They said

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions. The Ver.di service workers’ union called for a week of strikes lasting from Monday through Saturday, with the main day of walkouts on

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In four months, the world’s best athletes will be at the Paris Olympics. Yet some competitors say it won’t be truly representative of the global talent as not all countries can afford to give their athletes a fighting chance to get there. Senegal’s top ranked surfer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G has made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport. KABC-TV reports the aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m. on Thursday with no immediate reports of injuries. KABC reports the plane left Hollywood Burbank Airport

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Japanese stocks again set a record Friday, after U.S. stocks climbed to all-time highs the previous day. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices advanced. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.9% and ended at 39,940,00 in morning trading. In late February, the index passed the record of

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection. The royal palace in Oslo said this week King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell ill during

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — It could be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his young son this summer, he’s expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state, and Hollywood and Bollywood royalty to attend