Month: September 2022

By JILL LAWLESS, MIKE CORDER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of mourners spent hours in line for a few minutes to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II while it lay in state inside a Parliament building Thursday and as King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect

PARIS (AP) — A major wildfire that ravaged forests in southwestern France has stopped spreading, according to local authorities. The prefecture of the Gironde region said the wildfire has burned more than 37 square kilometers (14 square miles) since Monday, leading to the evacuation of 1,840 people. Over 1,000 firefighters, six Canadair aircrafts, three Dash

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A performance by master keyboardist Booker T. Jones highlighted an announcement by the Stax Museum of American Soul Music of a year-long celebration of the museum’s 20th anniversary next year in Memphis, Tennessee. Jones’ performance Wednesday followed a video spotlighting events scheduled throughout 2023, including free

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird flies nearly 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) between Canada’s spruce forests and its wintering grounds in northern South America. “Migratory birds are these little globetrotters,” said

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and leaders from India and Central Asia gathered Thursday in Uzbekistan for a summit of a security group formed by Beijing and Moscow as a counterweight to U.S. influence. The meeting Friday of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization is overshadowed by Putin’s attack on Ukraine

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are each courting major allies on Thursday, seeking to prop up their efforts in a war whose fortunes have tilted toward Ukraine in recent days. In Uzbekistan’s ancient Samarkand, Putin was hoping to break through his international

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after a wobbly day of trading yielded modest gains on Wall Street. U.S. futures were barely changed while oil prices fell back. China’s central bank left its benchmark lending rate unchanged. While other major economies are raising rates to cool inflation, China’s

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Pope Francis reaffirmed the critical value Thursday of interfaith dialogue to contrast the “folly of war,” even as one of his own bishops warned that Francis’ participation in a big interfaith peace conference in Kazakhstan could imply papal endorsement of a “supermarket of religions.” Francis delivered

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says King Charles III continuing to advocate for climate change action in his new apolitical role as monarch would be “perfectly acceptable.” Albanese was speaking ahead of an Australian delegation’s scheduled departure from Sydney on Thursday for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials are warning of potential danger to aircraft and ships from debris from a new Chinese rocket launch that might fall in northern Philippine waters. Authorities say no debris has been sighted so far. The Philippine Space Agency says China launched a Long March 7A

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Props are a familiar part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s repertoire when delivering public speeches — from cartoon bombs at the United Nations to a wall of CDs and binders supposedly seized from Iran by Mossad agents. Now, the former prime minister — famed

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press Where goes Queen Elizabeth II, there — inevitably — go each of us and all those we love. Because she reigned and lived for so long, seemingly immutable and immortal, the death of the British monarch after 70 years on the throne and 96 years of extraordinary life was a