Month: September 2024

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase protections for the Alpine country’s cherished plant and…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing. Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the…

Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers marked the opening day of the 189th Oktoberfest. The celebration began Saturday and…

Associated Press POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of…

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster…

Associated Press NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities searched the homes of New York City’s newly named interim police commissioner and seized…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South…

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are…

Associated Press MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — Indigenous people have lived in harmony with the forests of central Africa for hundreds of years. But the…

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected…

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely…

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident…

Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The trial in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph is set to begin in Memphis, Tennessee. Proceedings are…