Month: April 2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King Salman has entered the hospital Wednesday for what state media described as “routine…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved a 4.57% rise in retirees’ pensionsfrom  this summer, an increase that is well above the current…

By The Associated Press The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Airline officials say oil sprayed from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed in northern Japan,…

LONDON (AP) — The former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party was jeered as he left court following his appearance on sexual abuse…

By DAN FRIO Edmunds If you’ve ever spotted cars with chameleon, chrome-like finishes, patterns such as stripes and camouflage, or just an off-beat…

By SAM METZ and BARBARA SURK Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Authorities in Europe have recovered bodies of people who attempted to migrate…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has announced plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds for…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Officials say Nepal’s president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for $61 billion in new U.S. military aid, even…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly…

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German far-right lawmaker says he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will…

By The Associated Press A Russian deputy defense minister in charge of military construction projects and known for a lavish lifestyle was ordered…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said…

BEIJING (AP) — China blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island…

By ANDY WONG and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) — China’s space agency is making final…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports,…

LONDON (AP) — Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction.…

By The Associated Press Germany says that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for…