Month: June 2024

By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25%, even though inflation…

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 34 people have died and dozens hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Friday after a retreat on Wall Street, where a drop in Nvidia stock…

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press TAMPICO, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Alberto, the season’s first named storm, weakened Thursday as it moved…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Much of the northernmost part of New Zealand is without power after a…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Marissa Lasoff-Santos and the person she would marry quickly fell head over heels in love. Lasoff-Santos was a gay…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men:…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed at least a dozen deals with his Vietnamese…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday that it would consider sending arms to Ukraine, a major…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ten men have been convicted in Peru for raping nine teenagers while serving in the military during the country’s armed conflict…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press An investigation into how and why a Jewish student group was erased from a New Jersey high school yearbook has…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say seven people have been wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia. It happened just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in North…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Magda Chambriard has been sworn in as the head of Brazil’s state-run oil giant…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A failure in an energy transmission line on Wednesday produced an unexpected blackout throughout Ecuador, the government…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil…

TORONTO (AP) — The gunman in a fatal Toronto shooting earlier this week believed the two victims had defrauded his family, his wife is saying as…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the…

By EVENS SANON and CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging…

MIAMI (AP) — Recreational boaters found $1 million worth of cocaine floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys. Samuel Briggs II, the acting chief…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals have spent a second day on the picket lines as they continued to…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists studying a family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some carry a…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed…