Year: 2024

BERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say four people have been killed in shootings in northern Germany and the suspect is a soldier who turned himself in. Authorities said Friday that the four victims, including a child, were shot overnight at locations in the rural Scheessel and Bothel areas, near Hannover and Bremen. They said

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions. The Ver.di service workers’ union called for a week of strikes lasting from Monday through Saturday, with the main day of walkouts on

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In four months, the world’s best athletes will be at the Paris Olympics. Yet some competitors say it won’t be truly representative of the global talent as not all countries can afford to give their athletes a fighting chance to get there. Senegal’s top ranked surfer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A private airplane carrying singer Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport Thursday evening, a news report said. The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport around 9 p.m. with no immediate reports of injuries, KABC-TV reported. The plane left Hollywood Burbank

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday ahead of China’s top annual political gathering, while Japan’s benchmark surpassed the 40,000 level for the first time. U.S. futures fell and oil prices were little changed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index advanced 0.5% to 40,150.00, breaching the 40,000 level,

By VINCENT THIAN and EILEEN NG Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection. King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell

By ASHOK SHARMA and AJIT SOLANKI Associated Press JAMNAGAR, India (AP) — It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state, and Hollywood and Bollywood royalty

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report from United Nations experts says paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke on March 1 Independence Movement Day, a holiday marking a 1919 Korean

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to more than 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Monahan, 66, was convicted of second-degree murder

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines arts organization is preparing to rip out a roughly 30-year-old artwork that lines a beloved pond in a historic city park, outraging arts advocates nationally and surprising local residents. The New York artist who created the work says she can’t believe the

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s nothing complicated about the latest tobacco product trending online: Zyn is a tiny pouch filled with nicotine and flavoring. But it has stoked a debate among politicians, parents and pundits that reflects an increasingly complex landscape in which Big Tobacco companies aggressively push alternative products

By SCOTT SONNER AND STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — California authorities shut down 100 miles of Interstate 80 on Friday as the biggest snow storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada. Authorities closed the interstate in both directions after 5 p.m. on a day most ski resorts around Lake

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of people lined up to pay respects before the funeral of a nursing student found slain on the University of Georgia campus. A funeral service for 22-year-old Laken Riley was held Friday at Woodstock City Church in suburban Cherokee County north of Atlanta. It was

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The list of memorable characters and personalities who entered popular culture through cable television is long: Honey Boo Boo. Tony Soprano. Lizzie McGuire. Don Draper. Jon Stewart. Beavis and Butt-Head. Chip and Joanna Gaines. SpongeBob SquarePants. Pick your own favorites. Chances are there won’t be

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Campaigning formally starts on Friday for the biggest election in Mexico’s history. Voters will choose the president, along with the winners of 628 seats in Congress and thousands of local positions. Elections will occur in all 32 jurisdictions, with more than 20,000 positions up for grabs,

By SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Wildfires may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, describing how the largest blaze in state history scorched everything in its path, leaving ashes in its wake. Texas officials warned that the threat

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — If an ancient prophecy is right, Michael “Barney” Chandler has just got the most important job in England. The 56-year-old former Royal Marine is the new ravenmaster at the Tower of London, responsible for looking after the feathered protectors of the 1,000-year-old fortress. According to legend, if

By KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump indicated Friday that he would rule within the next two weeks on whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case over a romantic relationship with a top prosecutor.

By ERIC TUCKER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have pressed a federal judge to schedule a trial for this summer in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, while defense lawyers sought to put it off until after the election. U.S. District Judge