Month: September 2022

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Rachel Brading was a child she waited hours to see Queen Elizabeth II pass by her hometown in the midlands of England. Forty years later she was waiting again, one among a crowd of thousands hoping to catch one last glimpse of the late monarch’s coffin

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of instigating new rounds of shelling Wednesday across their borders as hostilities reignited between the two longtime adversaries. Armenia’s Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijani forces of launching combat drones in the direction of the Armenian resort town of Jermuk overnight and

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court will rule on Sept. 30 whether suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has exceeded the term limit for his office and must quit. Prayuth was installed as prime minister on Aug. 24, 2014, after leading a military coup. Critics cite that date in arguing he is obliged to resign. Others

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a church in a West London district known locally as Little India, a book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II lies open. Five days after the monarch’s passing, few have signed their names. The congregation of 300 is made up largely of the South Asian diaspora,

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police say the death toll has risen to eight from an overnight roadside bombing that targeted an anti-Taliban elder’s vehicle. Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the explosion. On Wednesday, Saeed Khan, a senior police official in Swat, said Idrees Khan, was traveling in the

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says an army officer has been killed in a shootout in the occupied West Bank, while Palestinian officials say two gunmen were killed in the same clash. Wednesday’s violence was the latest in a long string of deadly fighting between soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank. Much of

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tuvalu have accepted his offer to fly representatives to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. He says other British Commonwealth island leaders could also join them. Albanese says all 10 former British colonies in the

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis told the Russian Orthodox hierarchy and other faith leaders Wednesday that religion must never be used to justify the “evil” of war and that God must never “be held hostage to the human thirst for power.”

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip overseas since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with a visit by Pope Francis to Kazakhstan, although the Vatican says there are no plans for them to meet. Xi’s state visit Wednesday comes just weeks ahead of

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Residents of a city in China’s far western Xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown. Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week,

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will travel to Britain to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral next week and pay respects. Japan’s top government spokesperson said Wednesday that the government has requested their attendance, considering the close relations between Japanese and British royal families. He said

BANGKOK (AP) — The army said a clerk shot at his co-workers at Thailand’s Army War College, killing two people and wounding another. The alleged assailant fled the scene of Wednesday’s shooting but was arrested outside the Army Training Command compound, which houses the Army War College, in Bangkok. Television footage showed the suspect in

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly six years after flood damage from Hurricane Matthew displaced Thad Artis from his home in Goldsboro, North Carolina, he has still not been placed in permanent housing. Living alone in a motel for the last two years, growing increasingly frustrated with