Month: July 2024

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail on Tuesday for the first time since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, continuing his calls to calm the divisive rhetoric on both sides but also arguing that doing so “doesn’t mean we should stop telling the truth” about his Republican

Associated Press DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say security forces have killed all ten militants who attacked a military facility in the northwest, leaving eight soldiers dead. In a statement Tuesday, the military said eight soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber early Monday rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the outer

MOSCOW (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is scheduled to appear in court in Russia on Thursday for the second hearing in his trial on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government vehemently deny. The trial is taking place behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural Mountains

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban officials say heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 350 others. A spokesperson for Nangarhar province says the dead included five members of the same family who were killed when the roof of their house collapsed. Four other family members were injured.

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A recently signed agreement will open a direct line of communication between the presidential offices of China and the Philippines to help prevent any new confrontation from spiraling out of control in the disputed South China Sea, according to highlights of the accord seen by The Associated Press on

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official has banned a far-right magazine that she accused of stirring up hatred against Jews, people with immigrant roots and parliamentary democracy. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Tuesday banned Compact magazine and the company that publishes it, as well as a film production firm. Her ministry said police raided

Asian stocks were mostly lower Wednesday even as investors wagered that the Federal Reserve will come ahead with a cut to interest rates, while Australia’s benchmark hit a new record. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices were little changed. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index gave up early gains to shed 0.4% to 41,095.23.

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian military says four of its soldiers were killed in a gunfight with suspected rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir. The soldiers were killed when they were fired at by militants hiding in the forests of southern Doda district in Jammu division late Monday. The attack was the

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s innovation minister says the government is testing its own ChatGPT-style tool for its employees, with plans to eventually make it available to the public, after OpenAI decided to take extra steps to block access from unsupported regions like China. The program was developed by a generative AI

Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal say there were 65 people on board the two buses that were pushed into a swollen river in Nepal last week. Rescuers have been able to recover 14 bodies. Eight have been identified and are being handed over to relatives. The bodies were washed away as

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government. A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of

Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago. The nation’s high court issued the stay about 20 minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was to have been taken into the Huntsville, Texas,

Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Media reports in Bangladesh say at least five people have been killed and dozens injured in violence around the country connected with student protests against a government jobs quota. Protesters have clashed with pro-government student activists and with police. Violence has been reported around the capital of Dhaka, the

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through Midwest overnight with relentless rain and tornadoes and hit the Chicago area especially hard. Hundreds of thousands of