Year: 2024

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned China’s dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea. Asked if the strong U.S. military support to the

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BERLIN (AP) — German police have broken up a protest camp housing environmental activists in a forest near the Tesla electric car factory in Grünheide outside Berlin, citing violations of public safety and order. The protesters, who were removed Tuesday, had occupied the forest near the Tesla plant since the end of February over concerns

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British farmers have descended on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. An estimated 13,000 people packed the streets around Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office on Tuesday, demonstrating against the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on agricultural property. The

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has vowed that her country will not be intimidated by Russia’s new nuclear deterrent policy as it had in the past. Annalena Baerbock told a news conference in Poland that Berlin will now heed the warnings of partners that border Ukraine. She was speaking while attending a meeting

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says officials have to assume that damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea was caused by sabotage. But he says they have no proof at present. Damage was detected Monday to the C-Lion1 cable that runs nearly 1,200 kilometers or 750 miles from Finnish capital Helsinki to

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been arrested again, this time on suspicion of rape. Marius Borg Høiby is the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon, and the son of the crown princess from a previous relationship. He has no royal

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic party won a tight race in the central Umbria region and deepened its control of the traditional left-leaning stronghold of Emilia-Romagna. The results of the two-days of voting that ended Monday were a clear victory for Democratic leader

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after talks in Lebanon on Tuesday. However, there was no such optimism in the Gaza Strip, where the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis. Amos

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war. It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles. The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia

BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks using vehicles or knives. The attacks take one of two forms — either drivers mowing down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants stabbing multiple victims. Guns are strictly restricted in China and gun

KARTARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world are thronging a shrine to the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, in Pakistan to commemorate his birth. Many Sikh holy sites are in Pakistan after the British partitioned the subcontinent in 1947 following two centuries of colonial rule. Officials