Month: January 2024

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military announced it would review the shooting of a Palestinian man who was killed in the Gaza Strip while walking in a group of people waving a white flag, saying footage of the episode raised concerns of possible wrongdoing by soldiers. A video shows a group

By LOLITA C. BALDOR. AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more, officials said Monday. Details of the Sunday attack

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KAMIANYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — A years-long diplomatic conflict between Ukraine and Hungary took a step toward resolution during a meeting between their foreign ministers, but no breakthrough was reached on Hungary’s blocking of a crucial European Union financial aid package for Kyiv. The meeting near the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A local official says the majority of the 50 passengers aboard a wooden boat that capsized on a lake in eastern Congo are presumed to be dead. The official says the boat crossing Lake Kivu was also carrying 20 bags of cement and likely sunk due

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An undetermined number of hacked-up bodies have been found in two vehicles abandoned on a bridge in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Prosecutors said Monday that the bodies were found Sunday in the city of Tuxpan, not far from the Gulf coast. They said police found “human anatomical parts” in

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say they’re reviewing a video posted on social media as part of their investigation into a shooting at a store that left an officer wounded and ended with the shooter being fatally shot by another officer. The video was made by a witness who started recording after officers began struggling

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court says a deal can go ahead with Italy under which thousands of migrants rescued at sea by Italian authorities would be sent to Albania while their asylum applications are processed. Now the agreement signed in November between Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The leaders of Russia and Belarus have discussed ways to further expand their alliance that has seen the deployment of some of Russia’s nuclear weapons on the territory of its neighbor. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Russia and Belarus have developed a “strategic partnership” as part of their 25-year

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89. Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A little-discussed United States military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of international attention after a drone attack killed three American troops and injured at least 34 others there. The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can’t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke,

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in April to consider whether to release the second of two women who nearly stabbed a classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man from a psychiatric facility. Twenty-one-year-old Morgan Geyser petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren Jan. 16

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is further sweetening the perks for its U.S. store managers as the nation’s largest retailer and private employer seeks to retain and attract top workers in a still competitive job market. Walmart, which is based in Bentonville, Arkansas and has almost 4,700 U.S. namesake

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry is seeking 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) in legal fees after proving the publisher of the Daily Mirror tabloid invaded his privacy by hacking his phone. Attorney David Sherborne said Monday that he was overwhelmingly successful at trial representing the Duke of

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas say they are cracking down on crime after the U.S. Embassy issued a security alert warning that the archipelago has reported at least 18 slayings so far this year. The number of killings rose to 19 over the weekend with police holding a news conference

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The prime minister of the country of Georgia resigned on Monday and said he had accepted an offer to become chairman of the Georgian Dream ruling party ahead of national elections in the fall. The announcement came just a month after controversial billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who founded Georgian Dream, returned as

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has called for a broad “alliance against extremism” in the wake of a report about far-right discussions of deporting millions of immigrants that prompted protests by hundreds of thousands of people. Germany has seen more than two weeks of protests against the Alternative for Germany party and others on the

Sandra Milo, an icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning “8½” has died. A statement from her family carried by state-run RAI television says that Milo died Monday in her sleep at home in Rome. She was 90. Milo had her break in Roberto Rossellini’s 1959 film “Il generale

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators will not seek a recall after a seven-year investigation into complaints that more than 1 million Dodge and Ram vehicles can roll away after being shifted into park. The problem was similar to one that was blamed in the death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, although his

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Members of the U.S. Olympic figure skating team learned late Monday they will receive gold medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee received word that the IOC would award the gold

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America. Ambassador Xie Feng said in Washington on Sunday that dozens of Chinese have been denied entry in recent months when returning to school from overseas travel or visiting family in China. The Chinese

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court will rule on Friday whether it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Ukraine against Russia. Kyiv accuses Moscow of violating international law by using a false accusation of genocide as the pretext for its 2022 invasion. It launched

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has called off its purchase of iRobot, blaming “undue and disproportionate regulatory hurdles” after the European Union signaled its objection to the deal. The companies said in joint statement Monday that they were disappointed but mutually agreed to terminate the acquisition. The deal was facing

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police searched the homes and office of Carlos Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and a Rio de Janeiro city councilman. Police said in a statement that they conducted nine searches Monday as part of a broader investigation into the nation’s