Month: May 2024

BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines said Friday it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of tighter cabin measures after one person died and dozens were injured on a flight from London this week. The airline said it has adopted a “more cautious

By ALEX TURNBULL and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French prosecutor for riot-hit New Caledonia says a police officer has shot and killed a man after being set upon by a group of about 15 people. The shooting death on Friday is the seventh in unrest shaking the French Pacific archipelago where

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea appears to be preparing to launch its second military spy satellite into space. The military said Friday that it detected signs that North Korea is engaging in activities believed to be preparations to launch a spy satellite at its

By CARLOS HERRERA PÉREZ Associated Press PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — Officials in Spain say excess weight on a first-floor terrace may have contributed to the collapse of a building housing a bar and restaurant club on the island of Mallorca that killed four people. Spain’s National Police say the collapse Thursday killed two German

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney judge has ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia. The Boston-born 55-year-old on Friday will remain in custody awaiting extradition. His lawyers say

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The U.S. is seeking to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets as finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich democracies open a two-day meeting  Another key topic pushed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will be building

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and stage joint combat drills in disputed waters to defend its territorial interests. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro dismissed China’s criticisms of such moves as paranoia. He bluntly criticized Beijing’s increasingly aggressive actions in the

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s military says the helicopter carrying late President Ebrahim Raisi caught fire soon after it crashed into a mountain and there was no sign it was attacked. The statement from the general staff of the armed forces in charge of investigating the crash was read on state television late Thursday. The

By SAM MEDNICK, LEE KEATH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it was unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Friday in a bounce back from Wall Street’s worst day since April. The S&P 500 gained 36.88 points, or 0.7%, to 5,304.72 and won back all its losses from the prior two days. It eked out a tiny gain for the week,

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel. The vote was 14-0 with Russia abstaining. It also demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law. The Swiss-sponsored resolution expresses grave concern

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal judge said in a decision made public Friday that her court has

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will pay $2.58 million in compensation to the families of five Chinese engineers who were killed in March when a suicide bomber targeted the vehicle carrying them in the northwest. The Chinese were attacked as they were heading to Dasu Dam, Pakistan’s biggest, where they worked. The finance ministry

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO, FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera.

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Several tornadoes were reported in Iowa and Illinois as storms downed power lines and trees on Friday, just days after a deadly twister devastated one small town. The large storm system began overnight in Nebraska before traveling across central Iowa and into

THANE, India (AP) — Rescuers combed through piles of debris and wreckage Friday searching for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others, officials said. The explosion in the factory’s boiler on Thursday led to a fire that affected nearby factories

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a simple motto laying out his administration’s priorities: “For the good of all, first the poor.” His administration scrapped a host of existing social programs and installed their own, quickly increasing overall social

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military officials were detained. All face charges of corruption, which they have denied. The arrests started shortly before President Vladimir

By DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The state’s top police leader says officers arriving without assignments after the state’s deadliest mass shooting led to a chaotic scene that was difficult to manage. State Police Chief Col. William Ross says there’s no overarching policy on self-dispatching police officers and says

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga province,