Month: May 2023

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say customs police and a dog with a fine nose for cocaine found more…

MILAN (AP) — The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor has failed to appear before French prosecutors in…

LONDON (AP) — Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech, nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, warning that freedom…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning author Clint Smith has a three-book deal with Random House, starting with an exploration of World War II’s impact…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese and Chinese defense ministers have inaugurated their long-awaited hotline as a step to…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The union for Canada’s second biggest airline have issued a 72-hour strike notice to WestJet and they warn the airline…

The Associated Press Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision…

MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has voted unanimously to formally pull out of a Cold War-era security deal more than…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Concierge medicine, a business model in which patients pay a membership fee to have a direct relationship with a doctor…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court has sentenced moderate Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The former head of Volkswagen’s luxury division Audi pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges tied to the…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Miami’s Erik Spoelstra and Denver’s Michael Malone are two of the four NBA coaches to have…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than 100 million euros from a Dresden…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad has received an invitation to attend…

By KEN SWEET The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Executives from two of three banks that recently failed appeared in front of the Senate Banking…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader says the sentencing on spying charges of a U.S. citizen in China who was also…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says South Korea midfielder Son Jun-ho has been detained in the northeastern Chinese province of…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A court has ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay $74,700 in damages…

By RAF CASERT and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Leaders from across Europe are laser-focused on holding Russia to account…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Jessica Tincopa may leave the photography business she spent 14 years building for one reason: to find coverage for…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say clashes between two tribes feuding over the ownership of a coal mine in the country’s remote…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s district attorney Monday released surveillance video showing the fatal…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday as Japan’s benchmark jumped on the news of solid…