Month: July 2023

NEW DELHI (AP) — Schools in New Delhi have closed after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital, caused landslides and flash floods in the country’s north and killed at least 15 people over the last three days. The torrential rain over the weekend left parts of New Delhi on Monday overflowing with water that

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts hold a summit in Lithuania’s capital over two days starting Tuesday. They are expected to focus on ensuring that Ukraine has support as long as the conflict continues, how to bring the country even

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a nail-biter: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan national women’s professional league opponent 7-0. One young fan in the

BEIJING (AP) — A man with a knife killed six people and wounded one Monday at a kindergarten in southeastern China, police and a news report said Monday. A 25-year-old man was arrested following the 7:40 a.m. attack in Lianjiang, a city in Guangdong province, a police statement said. Employees who answered at the Lianjiang

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the outcome wasn’t much in doubt: the Association Sportive des Forces Armees Royales, a powerhouse in women’s soccer here, ended up crushing its Moroccan women’s national professional league opponent 7-0. Regardless, one young fan in the stands

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers were looking Monday for seven people missing in a landslide triggered by torrential rains while employers across much of China were ordered to limit outdoor work due to scorching temperatures as the country struggled with heat, flooding and drought. Rescuers were looking for survivors of a landslide Saturday that buried a

By NINIEK KARMINI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats gather for talks this week in Indonesia. Russia’s year-old invasion of Ukraine and

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street Monday ahead of a week with updates on where inflation and corporate profits are heading. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in early trading, coming off just its second losing week in the last eight. The Dow Jones Industrial

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL LAWLESS and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WINDSOR, England (AP) — President Joe Biden and King Charles III, aging leaders who’ve waited decades to reach the pinnacle of their careers, used their first meeting in their respective roles Monday to highlight the generational issue of climate change as they prod private

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis. The family was determined to make it feel like an adventure in the city, though that wasn’t the primary

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey is virtually certain to get a green light to continue from the U.N. Security Council on Monday — but the big question is for how long. The council’s current authorization for aid deliveries

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest. The nominations comes despite objections from legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits his candidacy. New Ideas also announced Sunday that current Vice

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain has pounded southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two people dead and at least six others missing. Rain falling in Kyushu and Chugoku since the weekend has caused flooding along many rivers, triggered mudslides, closed roads, disrupted trains and cut the water supply

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain spawned extreme flooding in New York’s Hudson Valley that killed at least one person, swamped roadways and forced road closures on Sunday night, as much of the rest of the Northeast U.S. braced Monday for potentially punishing rains. As the