Month: January 2024

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say a judge at Lebanon’s highest court has suspended the arrest warrants against two former cabinet ministers in the case of the 2020 Beirut port blast. The Court of Cassation’s judge lifted the warrants Tuesday against former ministers Youssef Fenianos and Ali Hassan Khalil. In

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor’s First Amendment case against Gov. Ron DeSantis helps its own free speech lawsuit against the governor. The company said Thursday in a court filing that last week’s decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.

By JON GAMBRELL and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran launched attacks Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Pakistan said the strikes killed two children

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border, Sharon Alony Cunio gazed at the distant skyline of Khan Younis, the Palestinian city where Hamas militants dragged her more than three months ago. Her husband, David,

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Shell said Tuesday it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its exposure in the West African nation amid long-running complaints of environmental

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has vowed to widen military operations against groups linked to Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria, days after nine soldiers were killed in an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq. Turkey has been carrying out airstrikes on targets in Syria and Iraq believed to be affiliated

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a story published January 16, 2024, The Associated Press reported that Florida has a six-week abortion ban. The story should have made clear that the ban will take effect if the state supreme court upholds a previously passed 15-week ban.

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Brad Falchuk has released a new series on Netflix called “The Brothers Sun,” a dark comedy which he co-created with newcomer Byron Wu. After a long partnership with Ryan Murphy on TV shows including “Glee” and “Pose,” Falchuk goes solo as an executive producer on “The Brothers Sun.” He also

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American art dealer who co-owned a prominent Manhattan gallery has been found dead in a Rio de Janeiro apartment. Homicide investigators for the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State are looking into the death of 75-year-old Brent Sikkema, who co-owned the contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The defense minister of Belarus says the country closely allied with Russia will put forth a new military doctrine that for the first time provides for the use of nuclear weapons. Russia last year sent tactical nuclear weapons to be stationed in Belarus, although there are no details about how many.

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s military says it has killed a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and allegedly fired at Rwandan army patrols. It’s latest incident in cross-border tensions between the neighbors. The Rwanda Defense Force says it also arrested two Congolese soldiers who had been with the one

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after finishing sixth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. Hutchinson said Tuesday his poor performance in Iowa showed him he has no path to the GOP nomination. Hutchinson’s exit comes after

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities will allow cargo flights from Tanzania after its neighbor threatened to ban Kenya Airways passenger flights to Tanzania’s commercial capital. The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority says its Kenyan counterpart has given approval to operate cargo flights between the East African countries. Kenya’s foreign affairs minister says the matter is

By GERALD IMRAY and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press SAINT-PAUL, Reunion (AP) — Mauritius has lifted its highest storm alert and eased a nationwide curfew after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island and nearby French island of Reunion. At least four deaths have been reported on the two islands, three of them apparently homeless people

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember one of their first times at the Sundance Film Festival. It was the 20th anniversary in 2004. Now, they laughed, they’re the old ones. The “Captain Marvel” filmmakers are back with the 1980s Oakland-set “Freaky Tales,” which kicks off the 40th edition of

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave.

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — ABC News on Tuesday canceled the next Republican presidential debate after Nikki Haley said she wouldn’t participate unless former President Donald Trump takes part in it, leaving Gov. Ron DeSantis as the only candidate committed to Thursday’s event in New Hampshire. “We’ve had five great

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to spend $2.4 billion to care for the massive influx of migrants who have overwhelmed New York City’s homeless shelters. The migrant spending plan, which would include shelter services, legal assistance and more, came as part of

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the legal requirement that a woman wait three months before remarriage. Khan denies the charge. His lawyer, Intisar Panjutha, says the case is part of

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Student and legal advocacy groups are petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lift the interview requirement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program applicants to receive food aid. The groups argue the interview requirement is burdensome and prevents those who qualify for food aid from receiving it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district. Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution. In

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Fujitsu, the company whose faulty computer accounting system resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office branch managers across the U.K., has apologized to the victims for its role in the country’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice and said it was long aware that the

By BRIAN INGANGA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and began the difficult work Tuesday of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts, which can each weigh over a ton, to a new home. A previous attempt at moving rhinos

By MARK SHERMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a court order to take effect that could loosen Apple’s grip on its lucrative iPhone app store, threatening to siphon billions of dollars away from one of the world’s most profitable companies., The justices rejected Apple’s appeal of