Month: October 2021

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U..N climate conference beginning Sunday. It scares him — even though he’s been vaccinated and is only 29. But the campaigner from the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network is determined

By TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle brandished small arms and fired on a broadcast journalist in his car in the Afghan capital of Kabul, lightly wounding him. A Taliban spokesperson says the journalist for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting survived the late Friday night attack. He says: “We

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has gotten much hotter and more dangerous. The first big climate negotiations were in 1992. The world has warmed more in the past 29 years than in the previous 110

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets across the country, in the largest pro-democracy protest yet since the military seized control earlier this week. A doctors’ union says three protesters were killed and dozens injured, several by live rounds, as security forces opened fire

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Memorials large and small, ephemeral and epic have cropped up across the United States in the nearly two years since the coronavirus pandemic started. In New Jersey, one woman’s simple seaside memorial to honor her late brother has grown to honor more than 4,000 lost souls. In Los Angeles, a

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volunteers paint and repaint red and pink hearts on the 500-meter-long memorial wall that honors the at least 140,000 people killed by COVID-19 in Britain. The memorial was established in March by the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and campaign group Led by Donkeys as a visual

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly wave is dedicating a vivid memorial to the pandemic dead: A grove of trees, creating oxygen in a park opposite the hospital where so many died, unable to breathe. Bergamo, in northern Italy, is among

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned attacks on schools, teachers and children and called on all parties to promote the right to education in conflicts. A resolution adopted by the council Friday by a 15-0 vote emphasized the “invaluable role” that education plays in

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Critics of President Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president. It’s “Let’s Go Brandon.” The phrase took off after a reporter at a NASCAR race in early October mischaracterized a vulgar three-word chant against Biden as a chant in

By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Jay-Z has added another title to a bustling resume that includes Grammy winner, songwriter, billionaire business mogul, and global icon — now, Hall of Famer. The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” was inducted Saturday night as part of an eclectic 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden says international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program will resume. Biden commented as he and the leaders of Germany, France and Britain met Saturday in Rome to strategize about getting Iran to return to the talks. The leaders issued a

By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says unspecified “family obligations” are responsible for his abrupt decision not to attend next week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Scotland. It was announced Friday that Newsom will take part virtually while the lieutenant governor will lead California’s