Year: 2024

BERLIN (AP) — Production at Tesla’s electric vehicle plant in Germany came to a standstill and workers were evacuated Tuesday after a power outage that officials suspected was caused by arson. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, condemned the incident. The interior ministry in the state of Brandenburg, where the plant is located, said unidentified people were

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry as the bloc responds to the threat posed by Russia’s war on Ukraine. It also seeks to wean the member nations off an over-dependence on the U.S. defense industry. The plans by the EU Commission

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says a military officer used an unsecured phone line at a Singapore hotel to join a conference call that was hacked by Russians and leaked to the public. Boris Pistorius said Tuesday that the officer had participated in the Singapore Air Show and dialed

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India have arrested three men in the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist, in a case that has highlighted the country’s long-standing problem of sexual violence against women. The assault on the Spanish woman took place Friday in a forest in eastern Jharkhand

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police have detained seven more people suspected of selling information to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, the latest in a wave of such arrests in Turkey. The Turkish interior minister said on Tuesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the suspects were taken into custody during simultaneous raids

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two planes collided midair above the Nairobi National Park, sending the smaller plane crashing in the park and killing two people. That’s according to a police report Tuesday. The bigger plane, a Dash 8 with 44 people on board, was heading to the coastal resort town of Diani. Safarilink Aviation, the

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say a military tracked vehicle ran over two Polish soldiers, killing one and seriously injuring the other, at an army test range in northwestern Poland. The accident took place Tuesday at the Land Forces Training Center in Drawsko Pomorskie. The army says the injured soldier was airlifted to

By KEN SWEET and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday to cap all credit card late fees, the latest effort in the White House push to end what it has called junk fees and a move that regulators say will save Americans up to $10 billion a

ROME (AP) — The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization released on Tuesday found that

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed Tuesday it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv’s forces take aim at targets well behind the war’s front line. Russian authorities did not confirm the claim. The Ukrainian military intelligence agency said a special operations

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Singapore’s prime minister says Southeast Asian countries’ quest to reach agreement with China on a code of conduct in the contested South China Sea will take time, with difficult issues yet to be resolved despite recent efforts to accelerate the process. China’s increasing military assertiveness in

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tumbling Big Tech stocks dragged Wall Street to its worst day in three weeks on Tuesday. The S&P 500 dropped 1% for its second straight loss after closing last week at an all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 404 points, or 1%, and

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang promoted an image of confidence as he announced modest economic growth goals for the world’s second largest economy, at one of the country’s most important political gatherings. Li addressed a few thousand delegates of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, which

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, who drew a rare rebuke by his own state party last year over breaking with conservatives in Congress on key issues, was forced into a runoff from the right on Tuesday night against challenger Brandon Herrera. The race was among

By PAUL J. WEBER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL player who broke with his party over President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, won his Senate primary to propel an underdog campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Allred fended off his

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A split among Republican lawmakers has doomed proposals from election conspiracy promoters to upend how Kansas conducts elections. The divide also sunk an effort with broader GOP support to shorten the time voters have to return mail ballots. A vote Tuesday in the state Senate

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two San Francisco ballot measures to expand police powers and compel drug treatment for adult welfare recipients have commanding leads in partial vote counts. Mayor London Breed claimed victory Tuesday night and said the city now has important tools to crack down on crime and a

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country’s most progressive prosecutors Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón was leading in partial results in his bid for reelection against 11 opponents. Nathan Hochman, a one-time California attorney general candidate who ran as a Republican in 2022, was closely behind him.

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians are split in early returns over a statewide ballot measure that Gov. Gavin Newson says he needs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis. Proposition 1 was the only measure on the ballot. It was too early to call Tuesday night. It has been one of

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea are facing proceedings to suspend their medical licenses. Meanwhile, authorities are pushing for police investigations into leaders of the walkouts that have disrupted hospital operations. Nearly 9,000 of South Korea’s 13,000 medical interns and