Month: September 2022

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Bill Clinton says he is amazed by the massive response to the return of the Clinton Global Initiative. That’s the meeting of international leaders from politics, business and philanthropy set to gather in New York for the first time since 2016. Interest in the

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses — like stealing a hog — if they

By KARL RITTER and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine without damaging the three reactors but hit other industrial equipment in what Ukrainian authorities denounced Monday as an act of “nuclear terrorism.” The strike followed warnings from Russian President Vladimir

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s space agency says Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single spaceflight, has died at age 80. Polyakov’s record of 437 days in space began Jan. 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off to the Soviet space station Mir. While aboard Mir, he orbited

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — American presidents usually make a splash when they travel abroad, holding the spotlight and quickly becoming the center of attention. Not this time. For U.S. President Joe Biden and other presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries, there were no red-carpet arrivals, no big speeches and no news conference

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A senior Taliban detainee held for years at Guantanamo Bay said Monday he was released and handed over earlier in the day to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan. Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban,

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — About 400 tourists who were stranded on a mountainside when a strong earthquake hit Taiwan have descended safely, as the island repairs damage caused by the quake. The 6.8 magnitude quake hit the island on Sunday afternoon, temporarily trapping four people inside a leveled three-story building, knocking a train from its

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares opened lower in Europe after a day of declines for most Asian markets, as investors braced for another interest rate hike this week by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Britain was observing a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II. Japan’s markets were closed for a holiday. Germany’s DAX

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Several environmental groups have launched legal challenges to the European Union’s decision to label investments in gas and nuclear power as green. European Union lawmakers in July voted to include natural gas and nuclear in the so-called taxonomy system, backing a proposal from the European Commission that