Month: February 2024

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in an eastern town is that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the 100-yen retail chain Daiso, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are launching attacks despite a month of…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military rulers say they have dissolved the government and will appoint a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday after technology stocks led Wall Street broadly lower on Tuesday,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said his country needs long-range missiles and other…

By JIWON SONG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean trainee doctors have collectively walked off their jobs to…

ROME (AP) — Four high-level Egyptian security officials have gone on trial in absentia the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Julian Assange’s lawyers opened a final U.K. legal challenge Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is protesting China’s boarding of a tourist boat as tensions rise around the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — One afternoon in mid-December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn’t on his official…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported U.N. resolution…

By The Associated Press When the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, some analysts predicted it might take as few as three days for Russian…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has cut its five-year loan prime rate while leaving its one-year…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity began…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Since he became a force in Republican politics, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S.…

By DANIEL COLE Associated Press TEAHUPO’O, French Polynesia (AP) — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when…

TORONTO (AP) — A flight heading from Toronto to New York City earlier this month had to turn around because of a “burnt electrical smell” in…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government,…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial…