Month: May 2023

BEIJING (AP) — China has expressed its support for Serbia following renewed violence between ethnic Serbs and NATO troops in Kosovo. China’s ruling Communist Party has long been a critic of the NATO alliance, stemming partly from the bombing of Beijing’s embassy in Belgrade during the 1999 air campaign to end Serbia’s brutal assault on

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A 15-year-old soccer player has been hospitalized with life-threatening brain injuries after being struck by an opposing player in a post-match fight during an international youth tournament in Germany. A 16-year-old from a French team was jailed pending further investigation by a judge in Frankfurt, where the match with a team

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — German truck maker Daimler, Toyota and two other automakers plan to work together on new technologies, including the use of hydrogen fuel, to help fight climate change. The automakers said Tuesday that Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., whose top stakeholder is Daimler Truck, and Hino

LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says a proposed security treaty with Australia has been delayed a week after the strategically important South Pacific Island nation signed a new security pact with the United states that sparked protests. Marape’s office says he informed Australian Deputy

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded, the alliance announced Tuesday. The latest violence in the region has stirred fear of a renewal of the

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army says troops have rescued a Saudi citizen kidnapped over the weekend in Beirut and held for ransom. The Lebanese military said in a short statement on Tuesday that Mushari al-Mutairi was released in a “special operation” along the Lebanon-Syria border where the kidnappers held him hostage. It gave no

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is mixed Tuesday as a long list of worries loom, even if the most pressing crisis seems to be calming after Washington moved to avoid a default on its debt. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in afternoon trading, hovering close to its

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-PLAINE, France (AP) — If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see how woodworking techniques they pioneered in building Notre Dame Cathedral more than 800 years ago are being used again today to rebuild the world-famous monument’s fire-ravaged roof. Certainly the reverse is true for

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — At least 10 people died and 55 were injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims skidded into a mountain gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police said the overloaded bus was on the way to Katra from Punjab state when it fell off the highway bridge and into the gorge near Jammu city.

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and RENATA BRITO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s snap general election breaks the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can party, with the aim of bringing to heel the unruly faction whose internecine conflicts damaged the coalition’s results in local elections. On Monday, Sánchez brought

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it’s not what scientists at its cutting-edge nuclear laboratory trained for. Staff at the U.S.-funded atomic research lab in northeastern Ukraine spend their days patching up the facility, which has been badly damaged by repeated Russian strikes. More than

By KANIS LEUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Amnesty International says a Uyghur student who it had said was missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city, easing concerns over his safety but raising questions over how the allegations first emerged. The human rights group

By JIM GOMEZ and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press YILAN, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Mawar lashed Taiwan’s eastern coast with wind, rain and large waves Tuesday but largely skirted the island after giving a glancing blow to the northern Philippines. The storm was moving slowly toward southern Japan. With waves crashing on the shoreline, residents of

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing last week has returned home after being released by his captors. Sami Abrahim’s colleagues and brother confirmed his release. Abrahim publicly supported former Prime Minister Imran Khan. According to his family and emplyer, BOL TV, Abrahim went missing Thursday when eight people in four

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers made meritless arguments in a bid to convince a judge to toss out criminal charges alleging that the FTX founder stole from investors in his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency fund, federal prosecutors said Monday. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors responded to

By STEVE PEOPLES, HANNAH FINGERHUT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stepped up to Donald Trump at his campaign kickoff event in Iowa, vowing to “fight back” against the former president as the GOP’s 2024 campaign enters a new phase. Until now, the 44-year-old Republican governor whose slogan