Month: June 2023

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese health officials say an airstrike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum has killed at least 17 people, including five children as fighting continued between rival generals seeking to control the country. The attack was one of the deadliest of the clashes in urban areas of the city and

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to appease Republican hard-liners and get the House moving again after a recent party rebellion on the floor has some Democrats warning of a difficult road ahead when it comes to passing legislation that will keep the government running. Republicans teed up votes

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Switzerland say seven people have been injured when a hot air balloon caught fire while taking off in the village of Huenenberg, southwest of Zurich. Authorities in the canton of Zug, where Huenenberg is located, said that at the time of the accident on Saturday morning seven people — four

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the latest step in the restoration of diplomatic ties between the two Mideast rivals. Iran’s state TV says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan was officially welcomed by his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian. State TV said Prince Faisal carried

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Police in Germany have arrested a truck driver accused in the crash last year that killed professional cyclist Davide Rebellin. Prosecutors in Italy say Wolfgang Rieke is being held pending possible extradition to Italy. He accused of road homicide and leaving the scene of a crash. They

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday kicked off two days of high-stakes diplomatic talks in Beijing aimed at trying to cool exploding U.S.-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge. Blinken opened his program by meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with a group of leaders of African countries who traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” the day after they went to Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no visible progress. The seven African leaders — the presidents

By AJIT SOLANKI Associated Press JAKHAU, India (AP) — Over 100,000 people who sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened and headed toward Pakistan. In the coastal village of Jakhau where the cyclone made landfall in Gujarat state on Thursday, over 130 people

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press There are still more questions than answers about what led up to one of the worst shipwrecks in recent Mediterranean history in which some 500 people are feared dead. The Greek coast guard said that the overcrowded fishing trawler was moving steadily toward Italy and refused almost all assistance until

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large swath of the north Indian state Uttar Pradesh swelters under severe heat, officials said Saturday, prompting doctors to advise residents over 60 to stay indoors during the daytime. The dead were all

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Suspected rebels attacked a school in a remote area of Uganda near the Congo border, killing at least 41 people in a nighttime raid before fleeing across the porous frontier, authorities said. Thirty-eight students in their dormitories were among the victims. Some students were burned beyond

By SAMYA KULLAB, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — At last, help came for Vitalii Shpalin. From a distance, he spotted the small Ukrainian rescue boat traversing floodwaters that had submerged the 60-year-old’s entire neighborhood after a catastrophic dam collapse in the country’s embattled south. He and others boarded with

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say a shooting in Baltimore on Friday night wounded six people, though all are expected to survive. Baltimore Police Department spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge says officers who had pulled over a car in the city’s north heard gunshots just before 9 p.m. and went to investigate. Eldridge says officers found three men

EAST BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — A New England Patriots player was arrested Friday evening at a security checkpoint at Boston’s Logan Airport after two guns were found inside carry-on luggage, Massachusetts State Police said. Police said 25-year-old Jackie K. Jones of Arizona was arrested Friday evening, WCVB-TV reported. He had been planning to travel from

By MICHAEL CASEY and R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Although sympathetic, the judge said state law required him to evict

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Washington on Friday announced it is imposing visa restrictions for Ugandans it accuses of “undermining the democratic process” in Uganda after the enactment of an anti-gay law in the East African country. A statement from the State Department did not name any targeted individuals. It said the U.S. will consider other

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Kathleen Evenhouse took a break from her work in the corner of a small-town Iowa coffee shop to slam the federal criminal indictment of Donald Trump as patently political, the work of a U.S. Justice Department she says is awash in hypocrisy. “I think we’re playing