By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong firefighters will investigate the cause of a blaze that broke out Friday at a warehouse and forced 3,600 people, including students, to evacuate, authorities said. Thick smoke was seen pouring out from the eight-story factory building where the fire broke out around 2 p.m.
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu to London office while demonstrators gathered nearby to protest the Israeli leader’s right-wing policies. Netanyahu had to pass by hundreds of protesters waving Israeli flags and shouting “Shame!” in Hebrew when he arrived at Sunak’s Downing Street office
Continue Reading By ASHOK SHARMA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader and fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expelled from Parliament Friday. It came one day after a court convicted Rahul Gandhi of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in
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By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Years ago, skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards and back alleys. Those days are long gone. Skateboarding, which has Native Hawaiian roots connected to surfing, no longer is on the fringes. It became an Olympic sport in 2020. There
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Years ago, skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards and back alleys. Those days are long gone. Skateboarding, which has Native Hawaiian roots connected to surfing, no longer is on the fringes. It became an Olympic sport in 2020. There
Continue Reading JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — More than 1,500 people have been evacuated as a major forest fire rages in Spain’s eastern Castellon province, marking an early start to the nation’s fire season amid bone dry conditions. Local officials said the fire had engulfed around 3,000 hectares of land. Ximo Puig, the president of
Continue Reading By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia is in talks with Syria to reopen its embassy in the war-torn nation for the first time in a decade. That’s according to a Saudi state television late Thursday. The development represents the latest diplomatic reshuffling in the region. The announcement on state TV comes
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — French citizens angry at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms engaged in scattered protest actions Friday, as the ongoing unrest across the country persuaded officials to postpone a planned state visit by Britain’s King Charles III. Demonstrators had demanded that Charles cancel his trip, which was scheduled to start Sunday. The protests and
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s customs authorities say they have discovered nine migrants hiding among aluminum rolls in a truck headed to Poland from Greece. A statement on Friday says the migrants were spotted on Wednesday during a scan that showed human silhouettes in the back of the truck on Serbia’s border with North Macedonia.
Continue Reading By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Four passenger buses and a truck collided near a Hong Kong road tunnel Friday and 87 people were injured, including children. Most of the injuries were minor. The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Justyna Wydrzyńska was found guilty of helping a woman obtain abortion pills. That’s a crime in Poland. You can possess and take them, but you can’t assist someone seeking to terminate a pregnancy. Wydrzyńska says she identifies with the domestic violence victim she helped. She says she
Continue Reading DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Skimming the treetops, three Soviet-era attack helicopters bank and swoop down on a field after an early-morning mission to the front lines in the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Each day, they might fly three or four sorties, says the commander, whose two-crew Mi-24 helicopter, built about 40 years
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks shook off a weak start and ended higher on Wall Street even as worries about banks on both sides of the Atlantic continue to weigh on markets. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Friday, marking its second straight weekly gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China is threatening “serious consequences” after the U.S. Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claims was a violation of its sovereignty and security. The warning comes amid growing
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a $15 billion tender offer from a buyout fund made up of the nation’s major banks and companies. Tokyo-based Toshiba announced its board accepted the bid from Japan Industrial Partners at 4,620 yen, or $36, a share.
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Kirkland Warren was out on bail pending a long-delayed murder trial in Arkansas. But when he was arrested in southwestern Washington state early this month on charges that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend and fired a gunshot into her apartment, he quickly posted bond and was released again.
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Spring sports season keeps moving along in full swing with Yuma Catholic winning their 11th game so far – but the winter sports keep creeping back in.
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press NAHRAN OMAR, Iraq (AP) — The oil is pumped 24 hours a day several meters from Raghed Jasim’s home in Iraq’s crude-rich southern heartland. Gas flares from the field light the night sky bright orange, spewing acrid smoke; when the wind picks up, the 40-year old’s clothes are coated black.
Continue Reading By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Irma Reyes’ mind raced as her husband drove through the predawn darkness toward a courthouse hundreds of miles from home: Don’t they know my daughter matters? Reyes had been barely able to eat since she heard that Texas prosecutors planned to let the two men charged
Continue Reading By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Irma Reyes changed clothes in the back seat of the pickup: skirt, tights, turtleneck, leather jacket. All black. She brushed her hair and pulled on heels as her husband drove their Chevy through predawn darkness toward a courthouse hundreds of miles from home. She wanted to
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