Month: September 2022

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says President Joe Biden has approved additional military aid to Ukraine worth up to $675 million. Austin said at the start of a meeting Thursday with senior officials from allied countries at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany that Biden approved the latest tranche

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen, who the military says hit a soldier with a hammer. The soldier was lightly wounded in Thursday’s violence, in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Haitham Mubarak, 17, was killed. Rights groups accuse Israeli forces of using excessive

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and RAF CASERT Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid. In an unprecedented blockbuster exhibit starting in February, the most famous museum in the Netherlands will bring together

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands have voted to delay their nation’s general election from next year until 2024, a move that opponents say is a power grab and some fear could lead to further civil unrest. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare argued the delay was necessary

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss will announce Thursday how her new government plans to ease the burden of soaring energy bills that have left people and businesses across the U.K. facing a bleak winter. Truss is due to make a statement in the House of Commons and

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb has detonated outside of a Hezbollah-backed Lebanese minister’s home in the eastern Bekaa valley. Caretaker Public Works Minister Ali Hamieh’s press office said in a statement Thursday that the explosive was wrapped in electrical cables and placed in his garden in the village of Taraya. The statement did

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss court has granted the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was built to bring gas from Russia to Germany but put on ice shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, a four-month extension to its “stay of bankruptcy.” The stay for Nord Stream 2 AG was extended from

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press HILF, Israel (AP) — Ayoub Rumeihat opened his palms to the sky in prayer as he stood among tombstones for Bedouins killed in action while serving the state of Israel. Finishing the holy words, he gazed at the distant Mediterranean Sea across a valley full of olives and oak where

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament has enshrined in law the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The Senate passed legislation supporting the target in a vote of 37 to 30 on Thursday despite several senators who backed the bill calling for

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Iranian embassy staff in the Albanian capital have worked through the night after they were given 24 hours to leave the country over a major cyberattack on Albanian government websites that was allegedly carried out by Iran. Movement inside the Iranian embassy in Tirana continued nonstop

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man, who the military says hit a soldier with a hammer. The soldier was lightly wounded in Thursday’s violence, in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death but had no details. Rights groups accuse Israeli forces of using

BEIJING (AP) — Heavy rains are complicating earthquake recovery efforts in southwestern China, where the death toll from Monday’s disaster has risen to 82. More than 20,000 people have been moved to temporary shelters amid the threat of landslides and buildings collapsing in the mountainous region of Sichuan province. Another 35 people are missing and