Month: May 2024

By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group says attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias that…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s army…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country star Cindy Walker will be posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein returned to court in New York City as authorities consider an extradition…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Best known as one-half of the country super-duo Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley will release a…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A top public relations executive from Chinese technology firm Baidu has apologized after she made…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s biggest trade unions have mounted one of their fiercest challenges to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are protesting in Malmo, Sweden against Israel’s…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The World Video Game Hall of Fame has inducted its 10th class of honorees. The games Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police have cleared out a homeless encampment in a city neighborhood where drug use has been pervasive for years.…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India says Canada has informed it about the arrest of three Indian men who have been charged with…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The head of a center-right 22-party coalition that emerged victorious in…

By ALMA SOLÍS Associated Press Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died.…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets have named Charles Lee as their next head coach. The 39-year-old Lee…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer The Philadelphia Union have formally announced that they have signed 14-year-old academy prospect Cavan Sullivan…

By LYNN BERRY, DIDI TANG, JILL COLVIN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Making future military aid to Ukraine contingent on…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in more than eight months last…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The family of a Black U.S. Air Force airman fatally shot by Florida sheriff’s deputies at his…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister says it is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal…

NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok says it’s going to start automatically labeling content that’s made by artificial intelligence when it’s uploaded from…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Loaves of bread have been taken off store shelves in Japan after the remains of “a small…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish investigative magistrate on Thursday provisionally shelved the latest probe into an alleged case of tax fraud by pop star…

BANGKOK (AP) — At least one person has been killed and four others were injured after a huge fire broke out at chemical storage tanks in an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese defense aircraft carrying eight people made an emergency landing at a commercial airport…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV. It’s the first time…

By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has received a ceremonial welcome in Hungary’s capital…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is keeping its main U.K. interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25% with several…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A shipment of humanitarian aid has left a port in Cyprus and is on its way to the U.S-built pier in Gaza, the first delivery…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials in Turkey say 190 passengers and crew have been safely evacuated from a plane after a tire burst during landing at…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people.…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal investigators say they have “significant safety concerns” about a Ford SUV recall repair…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has urged pro-China Maldives to ease tensions and improve their strained relationship. The…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stormy Daniels is expected to return to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial for a second day of questioning.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan’s profit for the fiscal year through March has jumped 92% to 426.6 billion yen, or $2.7…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed a plan to allow catching fin whales in addition to three…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Air Vanuatu has cancelled international flights for four days and is considering bankruptcy protection for the South…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group says it is responsible for a bombing that killed officers involved in an anti-poppy crop campaign in…