Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes
By TRISHA AHMED and JIM SALTER Associated Press GOODHUE, Minn. (AP) — As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in…
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Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes
By TRISHA AHMED and JIM SALTER Associated Press GOODHUE, Minn. (AP) — As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in…
Continue Reading UN food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall
By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. food agency says it is forced to drop another 2 million hungry people from food…
Continue Reading Millennial Money: How to budget with a fluctuating income
By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet Freelancers, service workers, people who work seasonal jobs and those who earn money based on tips, royalties or…
Continue Reading Thailand’s new government takes office as Cabinet members take oath in front of king
By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s new government has officially taken office, almost four months after the country’s…
Continue Reading Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was…
Continue Reading Egypt resumes commercial flights to war-torn Sudan for the first time in nearly five months
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has resumed direct commercial flights to Sudan for the first time since a devastating war broke…
Continue Reading Trial opens in Japan in the 2019 animation studio arson that killed 36 people. Suspect pleads guilty
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan has gone on trial, pleading…
Continue Reading Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure…
Continue Reading Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure…
Continue Reading Polish official harshly criticizes film that explores migration crisis at Poland-Belarus border
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading member of Poland’s conservative government has sharply criticized a film that…
Continue Reading Africa Climate Summit links ‘unfair’ debt burden with calls to make continent’s green assets pay off
By CARA ANNA and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The host of the first Africa Climate Summit says climate change is…
Continue Reading Trial starts in Sweden of 2 oil executives accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two executives of a Swedish oil exploration and production company have gone on trial in Stockholm for securing the company’s…
Continue Reading Austrian security officials say they’ve broken up a terror cell suspected of links to Islamic State
BERLIN (AP) — Austrian security officials say they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine…
Continue Reading Turkey and Greece agree to revive talks and seek ‘new approaches’ to resolve decades-old disputes
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers agreed to revive high-level contacts and seek “new…
Continue Reading Severe rainstorm triggers flooding in central Greece, 1 man dies. Police order a traffic ban
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police ordered vehicles off the streets of three regions in Greece Tuesday as a severe storm hammered the center of the…
Continue Reading Despite Xi’s decision not to attend G20 in India, China says bilateral ties are ‘generally stable’
BEIJING (AP) — China is downplaying President Xi Jinping’s decision not to attend this week’s Group of 20 summit in New Delhi. A Foreign…
Continue Reading Asylum applications in the European Union continue to rise after a major hike last year
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Asylum applications in the European Union continued to rise in the first half of 2023 following a…
Continue Reading Cluster munition deaths in Ukraine pass Syria, fueling rise in a weapon the world has tried to ban
By ABBY SEWELL and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press AIN SHEEB, Syria (AP) — More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022,…
Continue Reading The US sent cluster munitions to Ukraine but activists still seek to bolster a treaty banning them
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in…
Continue Reading Nigerian workers walk off the job again to protest rising costs after removal of gas subsidies
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Some employees in government offices in Nigeria walked off their jobs in protest of the…
Continue Reading Hong Kong’s top court rules in favor of recognizing same-sex partnerships in a landmark case
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has ruled the government should provide a framework for recognizing…
Continue Reading 14 migrants and the body of a man are found after their dinghy sank near a small Greek island
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says that 14 migrants and the body of a man have been found on the shore of a tiny island in the…
Continue Reading World War I memorials in France and Belgium are vying again to become UNESCO World Heritage sites
By RAF CASERT Associated Press ZONNEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — With war ravaging Europe’s heartland again, the countless headstones, cemeteries and…
Continue Reading Officials use soccer to highlight climate worries in India’s ecologically fragile Ladakh region
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A first of its kind “climate-friendly” soccer tournament is underway in India’s…
Continue Reading Israeli military kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank, a militant in an army raid and an alleged gunman
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian militant during an army raid in the West Bank while…
Continue Reading An orangutan, chirping birds and a waterfall at ASEAN venue contrast to Jakarta’s pollution outside
By EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world…
Continue Reading A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly
By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime…
Continue Reading China touts the benefits of its ‘Belt and Road’ initiative to Italy, which may end the agreement
BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister is seeking to sell his Italian counterpart on the benefits of leader Xi Jinping’s signature…
Continue Reading Australian lawmakers head to US to lobby against efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A group of Australian lawmakers say they will travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its…
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