Month: October 2024

Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine  people including five nearby children. A police official says the attack occurred Friday in Mastung in Balochistan province. He says a motorized rickshaw

Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The party of Botswana’s opposition candidate Duma Boko has been declared the election winner over incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi in a seismic change that ended the ruling party’s 58 years in power since independence from Britain. Masisi conceded defeat even before final results were announced on Friday, with his

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A British businessman will be kept in custody after being charged with murder over the death of an Indonesian woman at a Hong Kong park. Jamie Tzewee Chapman did not enter a plea Friday and the judge adjourned the case to January. Police said Chapman and the Indonesian woman

Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children. The Bray School operated in Williamsburg from 1760 to 1774. Hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery. The former schoolhouse was identified on the campus of

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kamala Harris said Friday it was “disqualifying” for Donald Trump to say former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the former president’s most prominent Republican critics, should have rifles “shooting at her” to see how she feels about sending troops to fight. The Democratic vice president has campaigned extensively with

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Whether scenic or slightly sinister — angry werewolf, anyone? — the designs on the front of “I Voted” stickers are attracting a lot of attention this year. But have you ever considered the back of your Election Day souvenir? “Garment-safe adhesive, it’s incredibly important,” said Janet Boudreau, one sticker

NEW DELHI (AP) — A thick layer of toxic smog is cloaking India’s capital as smoke from firecrackers used to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, pushes air pollution to hazardous levels. New Delhi’s air quality index plunged into the “severe” category, according to India’s main environmental monitoring agency. In many areas, levels of

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that anti-immigration party leader Sen. Pauline Hanson breached a racial anti-discrimination law by crudely telling Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland. Faruqi welcomed Friday’s ruling as a vindication for all victims of racism. Faruqi sued Hanson in Federal Court over a

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday. The new policy stems from an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and it escalates the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Abbott intends for hospitals to track spending on patients who aren’t legal residents so the state can