Month: May 2024

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians are returning to the polls for the second round of the Baltic country’s presidential election as incumbent…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali official says it isn’t possible to search for a British climber and…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 800,000 people from vulnerable areas as the country and neighboring India await the arrival of a…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Living in a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Rudaina al-Salim and…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe introduced the world’s newest currency in April with public rallies and…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press When Balu Natarajan became the first Indian American champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985, a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is once again under the…

By ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press LISLE, Ill. (AP) — It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum’s Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Japanese and South Korean leaders have raised sensitive topics like Taiwan, North…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire broke out in a baby care center in India’s capital and killed seven infants. Fire officer Suresh Kumar says five…

By PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean judge on Saturday ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson delivered a speech focused on the economy…

By YESICA FISCH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands…

By ROD McGUIRK Associted Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu but there are…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to…

By The Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has no regrets about expressing his beliefs in a recent commencement speech and he…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The military junta ruling Burkina Faso has announced a five-year extension to its…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest built at the top of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. The…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag performer who accused a far-right blogger of defaming…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — The leader of a pro-independence party in New Caledonia has called on supporters to “remain…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hundreds of clowns have gathered in the streets of Peru’s capital to mark Clown Day, a holiday for which they have sought for…