Month: February 2024

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says ans 84-year-old Austrian man who traveled to Afghanistan last year and was arrested there has been released by the country’s Taliban rulers. The Austrian Foreign Ministry in a statement Sunday identified the man as Herbert Fritz and said he arrived in Doha, Qatar

By SONJA SMITH Associated Press WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibian President Hage Geingob has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes’ Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders, the German president and Princess Anne, the sister of Britain’s King Charles III. Geingob died earlier this month at the age of 82

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MEG KINNARD Associated Press TROY, Mich. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says it’s not “the end of our story” despite Donald Trump’s easy primary victory in South Carolina, her home state where the onetime governor had long suggested her competitiveness with the former president would show. Defying calls from

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Zelenskyy said that the number was far lower than estimates given by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. “31,000 Ukrainian military personnel have been killed in this

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani’s collection for the next cold weather season previewed on the last day of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday embraces the designer’s love of nature and admiration of Asian cultures expressed in his trademark flowing and flattering tailoring. Think garden party for the daytime looks,

LEE JIN-MAN Associated Press While covering the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar, AP Photographer Lee Jin-Man looked for standout photo opportunities in the pool. He worked with divers and colleagues to make sure his underwater camera was always in the right spot. Here’s how he captured this extraordinary image.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nine people have been killed in a road crash in South Africa after attending an election rally by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress party. The ANC supporters were traveling on a bus back to their home province of Mpumalanga early Sunday morning after attending Saturday’s

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has shaken parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java and the country’s capital. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said that the shallow quake late Sunday had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and that it occurred 37.2 kilometers or 23.11

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was much less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Yet despite the availability of the technology all

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans. It’s the latest spat between the two neighbors that have been at odds for most of the time since the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s defense minister says half of all promised Western military support fails to arrive on time. Rustan Umerov said Sunday that complicates the task of military planners and ultimately costs the lives of soldiers. Umerov was speaking at a forum in Kyiv. He said that each

By VICTORIA MILKO and DAVID GOLDMAN Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — A crack of thunder booms as dozens of screens in a locked office flash between live video of cars splashing through wet roads, drains sapping the streets dry, and reservoirs collecting the precious rainwater across the tropical island of Singapore. A team of government

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Michigan’s presidential primary on Tuesday will a test President Joe Biden’s ability to navigate dissent within his party over his response to Israel’s war with Hamas. On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump is looking for another win that would add to his sweep of the early-voting states and

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was well enough on Sunday to celebrate his weekly Angelus prayer from the Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after cancelling his engagements because of a mild flu. A brief announcement on Saturday from the Vatican press office said the 87-years-old pontiff was forced to scrap a

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s Senate race was expected to be a three-way Democratic prizefight, but the possibility of a record-low turnout is elevating the chances of Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball star, and could derail the congressional careers of two prominent progressives. In a year headlined

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation. Fed up with prices that remain about 19%, on average, above where they were before the pandemic, consumers are fighting back. In grocery stores, they’re shifting away

PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors on Sunday after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes. The operator of the 330-meter (1,083-foot) tower said in a statement it reached an agreement with unions representing the workers after promising

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli military offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah could be “delayed somewhat” if a deal is reached for a weekslong cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, and claimed that total victory in the

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Vigils took place across the nation for an Oklahoma teenager who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom in which the nonbinary student said they were a target of bullying. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old who identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, got into an altercation with

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside the ballroom at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, “Oppenheimer” was front and center literally and figuratively, snagging the night’s top prize along with trophies for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster increasingly looks like

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Since late last century and the early days of the web, providers of digital media like Netflix and Spotify have had a free pass when it comes to international taxes on films, video games and music that are shipped across borders through the internet. But now, a