Year: 2024

PARIS (AP) — Authorities in northern France say a young girl died on Sunday after a small boat capsized on the treacherous English Channel crossing route used by migrants hoping to reach Britain from France. A statement from the prefecture responsible for the north of France said the boat was carrying 16 people, including the

By EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew late Sunday in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang members storm the country’s two biggest prisons. The 72-hour state of

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic infighting is rattling elections in swing congressional districts in California that could be key to helping determine control of the U.S. House. Heading into the primaries Tuesday, Democrats are hoping to regain seats the party lost in 2020 in the heavily Democratic state.

By BROOKE HESS and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California. Sections of

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican Steve Womack faces a challenge from the right in the Arkansas primary from a state lawmaker trying to portray the congressman as not conservative enough. Womack is running against state Sen. Clint Penzo in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional district in northwest

PARIS (AP) — French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday the attack on a man on Friday evening was “a new antisemitic attack.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the interior minister said authorities are working tirelessly to

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The biggest winner of the Republican primary season so far, besides Donald Trump, might be Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about Scott’s prospects as Trump’s potential

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could. “You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic Party in 2022. “Every election I’ve ever seen, the candidates have been

COLUMBUS, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas have arrested a man suspected in the disappearance of a girl who was missing for eight days before she was safely located. Sirterryon Preston, 27, of Houston was charged with evading authorities after he attempted to flee from officers on Friday, the Columbus Police Department said in social

By LINLEY SANDERS, JESSE BEDAYN and AMELIA THOMSON-DeVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November’s general election, according to AP VoteCast. An analysis

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it may renew the search for MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed. The plane with 239 people aboard vanished a decade ago while en route from Kuala Lumpur

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly.

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country’s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas. The

BEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is under investigation for corruption, the latest in a series of graft investigations focused on the country’s financial sector. Yan Bingzhu, who led the bank since its establishment in 1996 and until he retired in 2017, is among several top officials being probed

By SUSIE BLANN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies to boost Ukraine’s air defenses after a Russian drone strike destroyed an apartment block in the southern port city of Odesa and killed at least 11 people. Officials on Sunday said the bodies of a boy —

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press ALBION, Pa. (AP) — “You are the Lighthouse in someone’s storm,” reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky. It’s an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The gilded salons of an 18th-century Parisian townhouse were the venue for Valentino’s latest fashion display on Sunday – an ode to black. This monochromatic collection gleamed and glistened under crystal chandeliers amid myriad textures and materials, inspired by great artists such as French master of

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A German charity has accused the Libyan coast guard of threatening its crew members who were rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, causing at least one migrant to drown. The German charity SOS Humanity, which operates the rescue ship Humanity 1, said the Libyan coast guard used

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif for a comeback term as prime minister. He held the office from April 2022 to August 2023, and is the younger brother of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif. Allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in parliament shouted in

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Swiss police have arrested a teenager on suspicion of stabbing and critically wounding an Orthodox Jewish man on the streets of Zurich. The statement from Zurich police said antisemitism was the suspected motive. Police said Sunday they received a report of an argument involving several people at 9:35 p.m. Saturday. According