Month: May 2024

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held in jail until Aug. 5 pending her trial on charges of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a massive landslide that is…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that…

By The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from hospital where he was treated after an…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment block in…

By JON GAMBRELL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi…

By MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — NATO foreign ministers are meeting in the Czech capital to prepare for this…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it will sell a second sliver of stock in its state oil giant Aramco worth billions of dollars,…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A toddler in the West African country of Ghana has set the record as the world’s youngest…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, GIADA ZAMPANO, ANNIE RISEMBERG and BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The suicide of a young man from Guinea inside…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, GIADA ZAMPANO, ANNIE RISEMBERG and BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press ROME (AP) — It was still dark and quiet outside when…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN refugee chief says the number of people fleeing their homes because of war,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were higher on Friday as investors shrugged off yet another decline on Wall Street, while an…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Voters in Serbia will go to the polls this weekend in a municipal election in dozens of…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former speaker of Iran’s parliament has registered as a possible candidate in the Islamic Republic’s June…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Marie Scott experienced British forces landing on the Normandy coast through her earphones.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As a young Women’s Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos are expected to offer emotional testimony as her late husband’s former…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Dorothea Barron got a sneak preview of the Normandy landings from a watchtower on the coast of…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California judge is considering whether to recall the death sentence of a man…

By TERESA DE MIGUEL, MEGAN JANETSKY AND RODRIGO ABD Associated Press AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly…

By TERESA DE MIGUEL, MEGAN JANETSKY AND RODRIGO ABD Associated Press Aktun Tuyul Cave System, MEXICO (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press COLSTRIP, Mont. (AP) — Actions by President Joe Biden’s administration that could hasten closures of…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new federal regulation protecting the rights of transgender students has prompted…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press SAMASTIPUR, India (AP) — Narendra Modi swept to power a decade ago on promises to transform…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims police officers in a Tennessee city were paid off to obstruct…

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA Associated Press Earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Riverside was surreal for Angelina Chavez,…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An unpopular government with a reputation for constant infighting. An economy stuck in a rut. A…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer An official survey shows that factory activity in China slowed more than expected in May, suggesting further…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luka Doncic had a 20-point first quarter on his way to 36 points for his high this postseason,…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Top defense officials, government leaders and diplomats from around the world are gathering in…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un has supervised firing drills involving the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHELLE PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — History happened just as everyone was…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers and four civilians were injured Thursday in what officials are calling an active-shooter…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan…

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper has been killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the…