Month: March 2023

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A firebrand Israeli minister says there’s “no such thing” as a Palestinian people. The remarks came as Israel’s new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition said

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Joe Biden’s nominees to a federal appeals court has generated rare concern from some Democrats and outside groups. They question the nominee’s involvement in a legal brief defending a New Hampshire parental notification law, injecting the issue of abortion into the confirmation fight

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — Three people — including a teenager — are dead in what authorities say was a shooting in an Atlanta-area home early Monday. The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office says it received a report of gunshots at 12:10 a.m. in the Honey Creek Country Club neighborhood of Conyers, Georgia, about 30 miles east

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament has been dissolved to set the stage for a May general election that poses an opportunity to lessen the military’s influence in politics. The dissolution was initiated by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is seeking a fresh mandate in the election expected May 7 or

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The supreme leader of the Taliban has issued a decree against nepotism, barring officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban administration from hiring relatives in government positions. The shadowy leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, also ordered all Taliban officials to sack their sons and other relatives who are already working in the administration. The decree was

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union ministers are meeting to try to finalize a plan to supply Ukraine with sorely needed artillery shells, replenish their own national stocks and ramp up Europe’s defense industry. The 27-nation bloc’s foreign and defense ministers will discuss the plan at a joint session in Brussels. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KHRESTYSHCHE, Ukraine (AP) — A team of volunteer specialist doctors has set up a mobile clinic in a cramped municipal building in a former front-line village in Ukraine. The clinic’s front window is boarded up with plywood, but it’s a lifeline for the residents. Access to specialist medical help was

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Foreign Minister will visit her counterpart in Beijing this week in the first such trip in four years. But the visit comes at an awkward time. Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Moscow this week, giving a diplomatic boost to Russian President Vladimir

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Contractors are being hired to remove millions of rotting fish from a river in the Australian Outback after a unprecedented die-off following floods and hot weather, police said on Monday. The fish started dying in the Darling River near the New South Wales town of Menindee on Friday. Officials say the

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday. But doing so requires quickly slashing nearly two-thirds of carbon pollution by 2035, the Intergovernmental Panel on

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates. Artifacts found in this town on Siniyah Island in Umm al-Quwain, likely once home to

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to the Group of Seven summit and announced a new action plan for a free and open Indo-Pacific. Kishida met Modi in New Delhi during his two-day trip to India. The

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Credit Suisse shares plunged Monday after Swiss authorities cut a deal with its bigger rival UBS to acquire the troubled bank at a marked-down price. But European bank stocks and the wider market gained as investors watch whether moves to shore up banks will stem further upheaval

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police have charged the first Australian veteran with murder for a killing in Afghanistan three years after a war crimes investigation found 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct. A police statement says former Special Air Service Regiment trooper Oliver Schulz, was

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China next week in what a spokesman called a bid to ease tensions between the self-ruled island and the mainland. Ma presided over a period of warm ties with Beijing, but left office under a cloud after a trade

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most of Wall Street is rising Monday after regulators pushed together two huge banks over the weekend and made other moves to build confidence in the struggling industry. The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 276

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. The

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer allied with Donald Trump is expected to testify before a New York grand jury. Such testimony Monday could give the Republican former president an indirect opportunity to make a case he shouldn’t face criminal charges over hush money paid during

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — No Republican has done more to restrict abortion rights than Donald Trump. But in the early days of the 2024 presidential contest, no Republican has worked harder to avoid the issue than the former president either. More than his GOP rivals, Trump is sidestepping