Month: October 2023

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is calling the first session of the country’s newly elected parliament for Nov. 13. Duda’s announcement on Thursday launches a timetable that will lead to the formation of a new government. Duda says he will announce a candidate for prime

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.K. prime minister is defending China’s invitation to a summit on artificial intelligence that Vice President Kamala Harris will attend next week. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says there can be no serious strategy for drawing up guardrails for artificial intelligence without at least

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Russian-born Swedish businessman has been acquitted of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov, 60, had been accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States. The Stockholm District Court said Thursday that Skvortsov had largely

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo broke off talks Thursday without result, despite European Union pressure to persuade them to normalize their relations. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Albin Kurti met with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, plus the two EU officials supervising

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has joined an EU summit saying that he was right to meet the EU’s foremost enemy Vladimir Putin. Orban says he’s the only one actively seeking peace in Ukraine and his stance of engaging with Russia was expected to be backed by

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities have charged seven people with helping launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Chinese crime syndicate. Police said Thursday the arrests came after a 14-month investigation which involved multiple Australian agencies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They said it was the most complex money laundering investigation

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has taken a break from interest rate increases. The pause announced Thursday follows 10 straight hikes, dating back to July 2022. That record pace of hiking was aimed getting painful inflation under control. But now inflation is down, and the Israel-Hamas

By NAJIB JOBAIN, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion. The third Israeli raid since the war began

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu says his country wants to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. to combat climate change. He made the remarks on Thursday during a visit to Beijing by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom is on a weeklong tour of China where he is pushing

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid would come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis. The Pacific storm had strengthened with

The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Stellantis says it plans to invest about 1.5 billion euros, or about $1.6 billion, in Leapmotor, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. The European-based maker of Jeep and Ram and Leapmotor said in a statement late Wednesday that they have formed a strategic partnership and joint venture that aims to

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have strongly condemned what they call North Korea’s supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia. A joint statement issued Thursday by the top diplomats of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan said such weapons shipments will sharply increase

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t used to constraints. The former president ignores and antagonizes anyone who tells him no. He built a business — and later political — brand as someone who says and does what he wants, largely without consequence. Even