Month: August 2024

Associated Press UZHHOROD, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady wants her country’s children to view themselves not as a generation enduring a…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Typhoon Shanshan, which began dumping rain across parts of Japan, has caused a landslide on Wednesday, leaving one…

Associated Press AL-FARAA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces launched a large operation in the occupied West Bank overnight and into…

Associated Press JENA, Germany (AP) — When electrical engineer Preetam Gaikwad first moved to Jena in 2013, she was smitten by what the eastern…

Associated Press NEA SILATA, Greece (AP) — A severe drought in northern Greece, worsened by successive heat waves and low rainfall, is causing…

Associated Press BINMAR, Chad (AP) — When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of…

Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — When Pope Francis makes his trip to Asia’s newest country, East Timor, it will make him the second pope…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — As soon as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán assumed Hungary’s presidency of the European Union in July, one…

Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero…

Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan…

AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family…

Associated Press NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — Bored and looking for something to do this summer, Danny Doherty hatched a plan to raise money for his…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope…

Associated Press The latest flurry of Gaza cease-fire talks — the back-and-forth over now-familiar sticking points and appeals from around the…

Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has…

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An evidentiary hearing in Missouri will determine the fate of a man on death row who thought DNA evidence…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Second Amendment activists in Hawaii are celebrating a recent legal change that allows them to carry not just guns…

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The announcement that Haiti’s military wanted recruits crackled through a small radio perched…

AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off in Hollywood style with the world premiere of…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s daring ground offensive has taken the fight to Russia, but not nearly as much as its leaders…

Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — One of Chile’s most powerful lawyers has been ordered detained pending trial after being indicted on…

AP Business Writers Losses for several big technology companies pulled the stock market lower. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% Wednesday, weighed down by…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report from a government watchdog says President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to…

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon was approaching Japan’s southwestern islands Tuesday, with weather officials cautioning residents against heavy…

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two journalists who led a now-closed Hong Kong online news outlet will hear a verdict in their sedition case on…