Month: March 2023

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at an abandoned refrigerated warehouse in the country’s northern industrial province, Hebei. The fire on Monday killed 11 people. The government in Cang County said Tuesday that the blaze started at the warehouse when the structure was being dismantled. They

BERLIN (AP) — The International Renewable Energy Agency says deployment of new wind and solar power plants needs to be drastically ramped up by the end of the decade to meet the world’s climate goals. In an advance preview of its annual report on the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, the agency

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into problems with Teslas, this time tied to complaints that the seat belts may not hold people in a crash. The investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers an estimated 50,000 Model X SUVs from the 2022 and 2023 model years.

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry returned to a London court Tuesday for a second day of hearings to see if the phone hacking lawsuit he brought with Elton John and other celebrities can withstand a challenge from the publisher of The Daily Mail. The case is one of several brought

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Police officers in Belgium have arrested eight people during counterterrorism raids across the country as part of operations aimed at thwarting possible terror attacks. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Antwerp police carried out five searches in Merksem, Borgerhout, Deurne, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and Eupen on Monday night.

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says an Afghan rights activist who has campaigned for girls’ education has been arrested in Kabul. Activist Matiullah Wesa is the founder and president of Pen Path, a local nongovernmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library. There was no

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The number will follow Shohei Ohtani until it is over. No, not Ohtani’s home runs or strikeouts or any of his magnificent numbers from the field. Nothing like that. It’s all about how much. As in how much will his next contract be worth. Ohtani is

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called a general election on May 21 in the aftermath of a train disaster that has reduced his party’s long-standing majority in opinion polls. The Feb. 28 train crash in northern Greece left 57 people dead. The disaster stirred public anger to cut a

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle on Tuesday with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy (AP) — The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th century’s revered Catholic leaders, who built an international movement of community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine about Jesus and Mary to justify his own sexual compulsions and