Month: September 2024

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander Tuesday as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict. With the two sides on the brink of all-out war, Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets

Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has tried to shake off his image as a gloom-monger by telling voters that better times are on the way — eventually. Starmer capped Labour’s first annual conference since winning a landslide election victory with a speech Tuesday  arguing that things will be “tough

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023. Authorities in Stockholm claim that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard carried out “a data breach” and managed to send

Associated Press MARQUELIA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane John fell apart as quickly as it formed but left destruction along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, including deadly mudslides and flooding that may linger. John was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall late Monday near the town of Punta Maldonado, with winds of 120 mph. It

Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — State-run media in Turkey says an Australian women has been arrested in Turkey over her alleged links to a Kurdish militant group. Cigdem Aslan, 51, is reported by the state-run Anadolu news agency to have been detained at Istanbul airport after an investigation found she was “actively involved in the

Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday, facing a flock ravaged by countless scandals of priest sexual abuse and dwindling in the face of modernity, where women and gays insist on an equal role and rights. Nowhere is that reality more tangible than in the

Lebanese health authorities have raised the death toll from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah militants in Lebanon to 564. Palestinian officials in Gaza, meanwhile, said new Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least two dozen people. Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with

LONDON (AP) — A soccer pitch in London collapsed and parts of the United Kingdom are submerged by flash floods after some areas saw a month’s worth of rainfall in 24 hours. Roads were closed, some train lines in London were suspended and dozens of people reported their houses being submerged as parts of central

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has asked her Chinese counterpart to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens there after a 10-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed. Kamikawa on Tuesday also demanded a crackdown on what she called “groundless, malicious and anti-Japanese” social media posts that threaten children’s safety. Meeting on the

Associated Press/Report for America WINDER, Ga. (AP) — Students have begun pouring into Apalachee High School weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers. Some students were still uneasy Tuesday about returning. The sounds of gunshots are still fresh in their minds, and many are mourning friends and teachers. The school has

Associated Press TINMEL, Morocco (AP) — The hand-carved domes and brick-laid arches had almost all been put back together when an earthquake shook Morocco so violently that they caved in on themselves and crashed to the earth. After nearly 900 years, the Great Mosque of Tinmel lay in pieces — its minaret toppled, its prayer

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five separate states were set to be put to death in the span of one week. If the fifth is carried out as planned, the executions will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in seven days. The

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the United Nations is warning world leaders that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward “a powder keg that risks engulfing the world.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke Tuesday at the General Assembly’s top-level annual meeting. He says the world is in “an era of

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the U.N. General Assembly with a call on the world to do more to combat climate change. He mentioned the fires ravaging the rainforest back home — but not the fact they’re adding to criticism of his administration’s own environmental

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here. And with it comes an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms that can be confounding to observers. The Associated Press decodes some of the key vocabulary. For starters, the event is known as UNGA — and yes,

AP Health Writer Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research. The U.S. obesity rate is about 40%, according to a 2021-2023 survey of about 6,000 people. Nearly 1 in 10

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnny Cash now stands among the most famous politicians, trailblazers and activists of American history as he became the first professional musician to be honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. Congressional leaders from both parties and members of the Cash family were among the several hundred guests who

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Workers are set to begin the reconstruction of the 400-year-old Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen five months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half of the building. Officials say will be faithful to how the iconic landmark once was and return it to its former glory. King Frederik

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried ’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after she apologized to everyone hurt by a fraud that stole billions of dollars from investors, lenders and customers. Ellison, 29, could have faced a much

Associated Press NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — On a cloudy late August morning, Burke Hales was on a boat a mile off the central Oregon coast, pointing to a sandy beach along the forested shoreline. It was there, the Oregon State University oceanography professor said, that the subsea cables from the first large wave energy test

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When Oliver Burkhardt underwent leukemia treatment at age 9, he’d enter the hospital wearing his patch-covered denim jacket. Pokemon. Superman. NASA. Police, fire, military. Classic rock bands. About 50 patches sewn on by his parents, selected from thousands sent by well-wishers worldwide after his dad made a social media request.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A former Singaporean cabinet minister has pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century. Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of obstructing justice and four of accepting gifts from people with

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted to more records Tuesday after Chinese stocks soared following a slew of moves by the Chinese central bank to prop up the world’s second-largest economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% to set an all-time high for the 41st time this year. The movements were tentative,

Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — The Egmont Group, an international organization that fights money laundering, said it will suspend Colombia from its global information sharing platform. The decision came after Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro shared confidential information that Colombian officials had obtained from the group during one of his speeches on national television. In

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A federal court in Argentina has ordered the “immediate” arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for alleged crimes against humanity committed against dissidents. The court order came in response to an appeal by Argentine prosecutor Carlos Stornelli after a previous ruling dismissed the

AP Business Writer China has rolled out a raft of measures aimed at countering a prolonged downturn in its property market that is dragging on the world’s second largest economy. The chief of China’s central bank said it would cut the amount of reserves banks are required to keep. It also slashed interest rates on

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A recently elected state lawmaker is among those who were arrested outside a Hawaii hospital. Ten people were arrested Monday for blocking temporary nurses being bused in to work at Hawaii’s only women’s and children’s hospital. Temporary nurses have been filling in because the hospital in Honolulu locked out its

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon elections officials say they struck over 1,200 people from the state’s voter rolls after determining they did not provide proof of citizenship when they were registered to vote. Of those found to be possibly ineligible, only nine voted in elections since 2021, a tiny fraction of the state’s

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Small tsunami waves splashed ashore on some Japanese islands after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity. The offshore quake Tuesday morning was not felt, and the tsunami advisory was lifted about three hours later. No damage was reported. The Japan Meteorological Agency had advised of a

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — First lady Jill Biden, former ambassador Andrew Young and the Rev. Al Sharpton were among those who paid tribute during funeral services Monday for New Orleans civil rights activist Sybil Morial. Morial, who was also the widow of New Orleans’ first Black mayor, Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial, and mother to former

DENVER (AP) — Colorado law enforcement say three men are accused of tying up their housemate and torturing him for 14 hours. The man told deputies from Jefferson County, just west of Denver, that three men attacked him on Sept. 16. The Denver Post reports the three are accused of breaking into the man’s bedroom,

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A preliminary report says a man shot to death by Connecticut police officers last week was wanted for robbery and appeared to fire a single shot as officers tried to apprehend him. A state inspector general’s report released Monday says the 36-year-old was struck several times Thursday evening by three