6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after distress call to a BBC reporter
By SYLVIA HUI and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC and French authorities say six female migrants trapped inside a…
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US guitarist Al Di Meola suffers a heart attack on stage in Romania but is now in a stable condition
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital. The…
Continue Reading Thai police say drug bust nets methamphetamine, crystal meth and heroin worth $8.2 million
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand said Thursday they made one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of…
Continue Reading China’s defense minister has been MIA for a month. His ministry isn’t making any comment
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese defense ministry has given its first public statement on the disappearance of the minister from public view about a…
Continue Reading Man arrested in killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere was released from prison in 2022
By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have arrested a man in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur…
Continue Reading Iraq’s prime minister visits wedding fire victims as 2 more people die from their injuries
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has visited injured patients and the families of…
Continue Reading Cleanup of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate after climate protest to be longer and more expensive
BERLIN (AP) — A company that manages official buildings in Berlin says the Brandenburg Gate will have to be cleaned at greater effort and expense…
Continue Reading Rights watchdog accuses the World Bank of complicity in rights abuses around Tanzanian national park
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government’s…
Continue Reading Miguel Cabrera’s career coming to close with Tigers, leaving lasting legacy in MLB and Venezuela
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera sat in a gray chair beside his two stalls in the Detroit Tigers’ clubhouse early…
Continue Reading Vietnam sentences climate activist to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese state media says a climate activist has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of tax…
Continue Reading An explosion following a lightning strike in the Uzbek capital kills 1 person and injures 162
An explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has killed a teenage boy and injured at least 162 people. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said a fire…
Continue Reading Storm Elias slams into a city in central Greece, filling homes with mud and knocking out power
By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press VOLOS, Greece (AP) — A second powerful storm in less than a month hammered parts of…
Continue Reading M.S. Swaminathan, who helped India’s farming to grow at industrial scale, dies at 98
Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist who revolutionized India’s farming and was a…
Continue Reading The American soldier who bolted into North Korea 2 months ago has returned to the US
By ERIC GAY, MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the…
Continue Reading Spanish police raid soccer federation as part of probe into Barcelona’s payments to referee official
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police have raided offices of the country’s soccer federation as part of an…
Continue Reading Koepka only identifies with 3 letters at Ryder Cup: USA, not LIV
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The three letters Brooks Koepka represents in the Ryder Cup are USA. Not LIV. The…
Continue Reading Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates
By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s prime minister has summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces…
Continue Reading Israel reopens the main Gaza crossing for Palestinian laborers and tensions ease
By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has reopened the main crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing thousands of…
Continue Reading In Yemen, 5 fighters from secessionist force killed in clashes with suspected al-Qaida militants
CAIRO (AP) — Security officials say that at least five Yemeni fighters from a secessionist group were killed in clashes with suspected al-Qaida…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian shares mixed, with most regional markets closed after Wall St ticks higher
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with only a few open due to public holidays across the…
Continue Reading Chinese ambassador says Australian lawmakers who visit Taiwan are being utilized by separatists
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s ambassador to Australia has criticized Australian politicians who visit…
Continue Reading Senior Thai national park official, 3 others, acquitted in 9-year-old case of missing activist
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted four national park employees, including a senior…
Continue Reading Shooting incident in Slovak capital leaves 1 dead, 4 injured
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A shooting incident in the Slovak capital has left one person dead and four others injured. The rescue service in…
Continue Reading The centuries-old card game of bridge offers a sharp contrast to esports at the Asian Games
By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The centuries-old card game of bridge is being played at the Asian Games. Esports, chess,…
Continue Reading Israel’s High Court hears challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office
By TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court spent eight hours Thursday hearing a challenge to a law…
Continue Reading 4 environmental, human rights activists awarded ‘Alternative Nobel’ prizes
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been…
Continue Reading As thaw accelerates, Swiss glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in the past 2 years, experts say
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine…
Continue Reading Over half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees as the separatist government says it will dissolve
By AVET DEMOURIAN and GAIANE YENOKIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dissolve…
Continue Reading TikTok says it regrets Indonesia’s decision to ban e-commerce sales on social media platforms
By EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Chinese-owned app TikTok says it regrets the Indonesian…
Continue Reading Production at German Volkswagen plants resumes after disruption caused by an IT problem
BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen says production is resuming after a problem with the German automaker’s information technology network caused a severe…
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