Month: March 2024

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has reported large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year,…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship bearing humanitarian aid was making preparations to leave Cyprus and head…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after Wall Street pulled back from its record following a shaky…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset…

ATLANTA (AP) — Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Ten years on, families of Chinese passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight are still…

By DAKE KANG and ZEN SOO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s hackers-for-hire take government officials out for lavish banquets, binge…

By DAKE KANG and ZEN SOO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A new trial of two American men has begun in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution, a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — During the State of the Union address, the House speaker and vice president sit behind the president. But there has been a new…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy…

By ACACIA CORONADO and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An independent report commissioned by the City of Uvalde into a deadly…

By MOHAMED JAHJOUH, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in…

By HOLLY RAMER and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released…