Month: April 2024

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has received a medal from the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s Serbs,…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A tentative timeline has been released for how soon authorities can reopen crucial shipping channels in Baltimore.…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical,…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte arrived at the public prosecutors’…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese defense officials are meeting for the first time in nearly two years to…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard…

VIENNA (AP) — Experts say Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy foreign minister has handed a diplomatic note to Israel’s ambassador…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican. A…

CAIRO (AP) — A human rights lawyer in Egypt says the authorities have arrested 10 activists who participated in a pro-Palestinian protest where…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Southest Asian finance ministers and central bank governors have ended meetings…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have arrested two people suspected of providing information to the Israeli spy agency in the latest in a…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A series of scandals has blighted Denmark’s Armed Forces at a time when the country,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he wants to strengthen military and weapons development…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left governnment wants “a historic increase” in defense spending with 600 billion kroner ($56…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have again tried to link the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A  pro-Western career diplomat and a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico are facing each…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday that it has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three…

SYDNEY (AP) — A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials say the…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Most people are getting ready for bed when the MMA sessions start at Diesel Gym in East London’s…

By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LEUVEN, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the measures the Israeli government…

Criminal networks in the European Union are penetrating legal businesses across the 27-nation bloc and rely heavily on corruption to develop their…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The bodies of the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran’s…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to get a firsthand look at efforts to clear away the hulking…

By NINIEK KARMINI and ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Four Indonesian Cabinet members have testified that no rules were…

Associated Press Moscow defense officials say Ukraine have fired more than 40 drones into Russia’s bordering Rostov region in what appeared to be…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Friday after a U.S. Federal Reserve official said the central bank…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government has begun its first nationwide census since…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press When the Russian barrage hit the Ukrainian power plant, a worker named Taras was manning the control panel — a…