Month: September 2022

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets sank Monday as Europe faced a new squeeze on Russian gas supplies. London and Frankfurt opened lower. Tokyo, Hong Kong and South Korea fell while Shanghai gained. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel while the euro edged lower. Markets were roiled

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Eight people are on trial in a special terrorism court in Paris. They are accused of helping a man who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in the southern French resort of Nice and killed 86 people. The attacker was shot dead by

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old militant in the occupied West Bank in clashes that broke out during an Israeli arrest raid. The military said he threw a firebomb at troops from close range and responded with live fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said the man

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say the number of people who died in an accident while climbing Eurasia’s tallest active volcano has risen to eight. A helicopter with a rescue team is on the way to the site of the accident. Russian media initially reported on Saturday that five climbers died while trying to ascend

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli military body has released a list of rules and restrictions for foreigners wanting to enter Palestinian areas of the West Bank, extending its control of daily life and movement in and out of the occupied territory. COGAT, the Israeli body in charge of Palestinian civilian

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake has killed at least seven people, triggered landslides and shaken residents in a major city under lockdown in southwestern China. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted Luding county in Sichuan province at a shallow depth, which can potentially cause major damage. Sichuan is regularly hit by earthquakes, mainly in mountainous,

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say four planes carrying aid for Pakistani flood victims from the UN refugee are arriving in this impoverished Islamic nation. Monday’s announcement by the Foreign Ministry comes as the country’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif traveled to the south where the flood has swollen a major lake,

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police say a train has collided with a vehicle on a railroad crossing in southern Hungary, killing five people. They said the accident occurred at a dirt road crossing around 6:45 a.m. Monday near the village of Kunfeherto. The driver of the vehicle and all four passengers died at the scene.

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of flights were grounded and more than 200 people evacuated in South Korea on Monday as Typhoon Hinnamnor approached the southern region with heavy rains and winds of up to 170 kilometers (105 miles) per hour, putting the nation on alert for its worst

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is accusing Washington of breaking into computers at a university that U.S. officials say does military research, adding to complaints by both governments of rampant online spying against each other. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center said Northwestern Polytechnical University reported break-ins in June. The

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Parliament speaker says jailed ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has sought a pardon from the nation’s king. Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun says a petition was submitted Sept. 2, less than two weeks after Najib began a 12-year jail term after losing his final appeal in August in a graft case

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States military said Monday it flew a pair of nuclear-capable B-52 long-distance bombers over the Middle East in a show of force, the latest such mission in the region as tensions remain high between Washington and Tehran. The bombers took off from