Month: June 2023

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott, Hilton are pledging to hire more than 13,000 Ukrainian women and other refugees in Europe over the next three years. Just ahead of World Refugee Day on Tuesday, more than 40 corporations said Monday that they will hire, connect to work

By ILAN BEN ZION and MAJDI MOHAMMED Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli military forces raided a refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Monday, igniting the fiercest day of fighting in years as Palestinian militants detonated roadside bombs and Israeli helicopter gunships struck Palestinian gunmen to rescue troops trapped

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — In her years running Catholic youth programs in France, Sister Nathalie Becquart often invoked her own experience as a seasoned sailor in urging young people to weather the storms of their lives. “There’s nothing stronger than seeing the sunrise after a storm, the

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Wages are rising in Japan more than they have in decades, at least for some workers. But so are prices, leaving many people feeling they must scrimp more than ever. A government survey found real wages taking into account the impact of higher prices fell 3%

By MATTHEW BROWN and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the United States this weekend, including at least 60 shot in the Chicago area alone. Four people were found shot to death in a small Idaho town, a Pennsylvania state trooper was killed in an

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Police say a suspect detained at the scene of a deadly shooting in northern Idaho on Sunday has been booked in jail on probable cause for murder. In a news release late Monday afternoon, state police said the suspect was being held at the Shoshone County Jail. Police

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Japanese Emperor Naruhito has met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo during his first official foreign trip since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019. Widodo and first lady Iriana welcomed Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Bogor presidential palace on Monday, along with greeters

TOKYO (AP) — Five people have been killed and 12 others taken to the hospital after a truck collided with a bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan. According to Kyodo news agency, police said the truck might have strayed into oncoming traffic. The bus was carrying 15 passengers at the time of the accident, which

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PALO ALTO, California (AP) — President Joe Biden ramps up his reelection effort this week with four fundraisers in the San Francisco area, as his campaign builds up its coffers and lays strategic foundations for 2024. In the back half of June, Biden’s campaign will have more

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: He was being persecuted, he said, by “Marxists” and “communists.” Trump has used the labels since he first

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ammar Rashed has a stack of letters from U.S. troops attesting to his work during some of the most dangerous days of the Iraq War. But six years after he applied to immigrate to the United States under a program for interpreters who helped America, he is

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer “Let’s do things differently this time.” Those are the first words you hear at the beginning of this month’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” an otherworldly meditation on multiple realities and how our lives might unfold. The message is clear from the get-go: We have choices. Things could be malleable.

By DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork. Though the eligibility review is required

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Kelly Clarkson and Portugal. The Man, the return of the TV shows “And Just Like That” and “The Bear,” and Robert Downey Jr. combining classic cars and fighting climate change in his new Max docuseries “Downey’s Dream Cars.” In “The Perfect Find,” Gabrielle

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An earthquake has been recorded off the southern coast of Myanmar with tremors also felt in Thailand, but there are no immediate reports of major damage. Myanmar’s meteorology department said the 5.1 magnitude earthquake on Monday morning was recorded about 95 miles south of Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, at 6

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Senate has voted for a referendum to be held this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocacy body to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. Dozens of mainly Indigenous people stood up the public galleries and

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said they agreed to “stabilize” badly deteriorated U.S.-China ties, but America’s top diplomat left Beijing with his biggest ask rebuffed: better communications between their militaries. After meeting Xi, Blinken said China