Month: February 2024

MILAN (AP) — Rome police have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from the African nation of Guinea. Police said Monday that migrants in the center began setting mattresses on fire after the body was discovered, then proceeded to knock

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers, oil company Lukoil and other investors. It’s one of the biggest deals for Western-held companies

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s marine rescue service says more than 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan countries have arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands in 18 boats in the past three days. A body was found in one of the boats. The archipelago off northwest Africa has seen a surge in migrant arrivals in recent weeks as more

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is holding parliamentary elections this week but many voters are disillusioned and wonder if the balloting can bring any real change in a country mired in economic crisis and a resurgent militancy. The new parliament will choose the country’s next prime minister but in today’s political

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and Italy say they will bolster their cooperation in security and defense, including their joint next-generation fighter jet development with Britain. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on Monday and welcomed Italy’s move to increase its presence in

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday. At the same time the head of the United Nations

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish foreign minister says Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey soon. It would be Putin’s first trip to a NATO country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan tells a private TV channel that Putin’s meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will focus

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania state courts agency says some of its online systems are disabled after its website was hit by a cyberattack, but the attack didn’t appear to compromise any data. Chief Justice Debra Todd said in a statement issued Sunday that the attack on the Administrative

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh official says more than 100 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army. It is the first time that Myanmar forces have been known to flee

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s parliament has voted to delay the West African nation’s presidential election until Dec. 15 in a chaotic voting process that took place after opposition lawmakers were forcefully removed from the legislative building. Security forces stormed the legislative building and forcefully removed several opposition lawmakers who

By JOHN WAWROW and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writers LONDON, Ontario (AP) — The police chief in London, Ontario, has issued a public apology to a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by members of Canada’s 2018 world junior team. Five of them have been charged with sexual assault, including four who are currently

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which was abandoned after the 1979 hostage crisis. The visit by Whitney Wright as Iran imprisons Nobel Peace Prize laureate and

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland are in Belfast to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar visited the new administration at Belfast’s Stormont Castle on Monday. Members of the assembly appointed a power-sharing government on Saturday

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack on a base housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria killed six allied Kurdish fighters late Sunday, in the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the U.S. launched retaliatory strikes over the weekend against Iran-backed militias that have been targeting

BERLIN (AP) — A union has called on Lufthansa’s ground staff to walk off the job for a day on Wednesday in a pay dispute, the latest of several transport strikes in the country. The Ver.di union called on ground staff for the German airline at Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Duesseldorf airports to strike

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is thinking about dismissing the country’s top military officer as part of a broader leadership shakeup, a possibility that has shocked the nation fighting a war to end Russia’s invasion and also worried Ukraine’s Western allies. Zelenskyy

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese shares have sunk to 5-year lows even after market regulators sought to reassure jittery investors with a promise to crack down on stock price manipulation and “malicious short selling.” Benchmarks in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed lower after swinging between big losses and minor gains on

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer It’s Taylor Swift’s world, and she just allows us to live in it. After weeks where she attracted endless attention for her football star boyfriend and a mystifying right-wing campaign against her, the Grammy Awards put the focus squarely back on her art. “Midnights” earned Swift her fourth career

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling inflation for more than two years. Experts worry that members of these groups — mostly lower- and middle-income Americans, who tend

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves has gone on trial a year after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. The 40-year-old Alves denies any wrongdoing. The trial is scheduled to run through Wednesday at a Barcelona

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The organizer of a soccer match featuring Inter Miami in Hong Kong was dealing with backlash from both angry fans and the government after widespread disappointment that Lionel Messi didn’t play in the game. The much-hyped exhibition match on Sunday ended with fans booing Inter Miami

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — It’s all been very messy. We’re talking about Lionel Messi and Inter Miami’s global tour of exhibition games where the main show has been Argentina’s 2022 World Cup-winning captain. The matches are about promotion and marketing, hoping to build a new brand by using stars like

By JOHN ANTCZAK, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A storm of historic proportions dumped a record amount of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes while people living in homeless encampments in many parts of the city scrambled

By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second term as president by a wide margin, but problems with the vote count delayed results Monday in an election that for many represented a trade-off of curtailed civil liberties for

By JIWON SONG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes related to a contentious merger in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company. The ruling by a Seoul court on Monday could ease the legal

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing discovered another problem in some of its 737 Max fuselages that may delay deliveries of about 50 aircraft in the latest quality gaffe to plague the manufacturer.  According to a letter from Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, improperly drilled holes were discovered by Spirit AeroSystems,

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia, where Chinese markets advanced after a government investment fund said it would step up stock purchases. But the gains in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong were much smaller than recent losses. Oil prices rose and U.S. futures were mixed. China’s