Month: September 2023

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN VIENNA (AP) — Estonia and Latvia have signed an agreement with Germany to purchase a medium-range air defense missile system. That opens the way for the two Baltic nations to join a common air defense system proposed by Germany last year. The agreement was signed Monday at a meeting of defense ministers

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You can work up quite an appetite sitting around a table plotting world domination. Luckily, a new cookbook lets Catan fans savor the board game even more while out-trading opponents. “Catan: The Official Cookbook” includes 77 recipes inspired by the multiplayer game phenomenon. There are

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s home secretary says she is seeking “urgent advice” on banning a type of American Bully dog, highlighting an attack on a 11-year-old girl over the weekend. Suella Braverman says she’s commissioned advice on outlawing American Bully XL dogs after police said they were investigating an incident

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Jamaica have charged a man they suspect is a serial killer involved in the deaths of at least four people with murder. The 25-year-old man from Montego Bay is accused of fatally stabbing at least two homeless men, an older woman and a young man in July

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu was briefly arrested before being released on bail by the police who accused him of unlawful assembly and obstructing police officers. Earlier, Lissu was barred from attending a human rights rally in Ngorongoro, in the north of the country. He has

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has safely completed the first release of treated radioactive water from the plant into the sea and will inspect and clean the facility before starting the second round in a few weeks. The Fukushima Daiichi plant

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced a 57-year-old Norwegian man for fraud and falsifying records for putting his dead partner in a freezer and cashing in her pension. He was given a 3.5-year prison term. A district court said Monday that the man, who was not named, had stored the body in the

By STEPHEN McGRATH and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana says there is “no risk” that alliance member Romania will be dragged into a war following the recent discovery of drone fragments on its territory near the border with war-torn Ukraine. The NATO deputy chief’s comments come days

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A major rescue operation in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains succeeded in bringing out an American researcher who fell seriously ill nine days ago at a depth of some 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) from the entrance of one of the world’s deepest caves. An experienced cave rescuer himself,

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll in the boat accident in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State has risen to 28 and communities have mobilized in support of an intensified search for dozens still missing after the passenger boat capsized. The boat capsized along the Niger River on Sunday morning with

By The Associated Press Russia’s Central Election Commission says the country’s ruling party won the most votes in elections held in occupied Ukrainian regions. Ukraine and Western countries say the elections are a sham. Russian authorities have been trying to tighten their grip on the territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago but still does

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say a former British soldier who escaped from prison may have snuck out by using bedsheets to strap himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck. Twenty-one-year-old Daniel Abed Khalife was arrested while he was cycling on a canal towpath in west London on Saturday after a four-day manhunt. Khalife

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee whipped up waves of more than 15 feet (5 meters) on Monday as the Category 3 storm cranked through open waters just north of the Caribbean region. The storm is not expected to make landfall this week, although forecasters said residents of New England and nearby areas

By MARC LEVY and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Authorities in Pennsylvania who have been trying to capture an escaped murderer for nearly two weeks say they’re shifting to a longer-term strategy and defended their efforts to this point. Robert Clark, the supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in Philadelphia, said during a news

Greece’s shipping minister has resigned over the death of a man who was pushed off a ferry ramp by a crew member after arriving late. Political opponents had accused Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy Miltiadis Varvitsiotis of initially downplaying the fatal Sept. 5 encounter. Amateur video showed the passenger running onto the ferry’s