Month: September 2022

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Laura Poitras’ Nan Goldin documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, where it is part of the main competition slate. Poitras, before the premiere, thanked the festival for recognizing that “documentary is cinema.”

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Fuel prices have increased by about 30% across Indonesia after the government reduced some of the costly subsidies that have kept inflation in Southeast Asia’s largest economy among the world’s lowest. Long lines of motorbikes and cars snaked around gas stations as motorists waited for hours to fill up their tanks

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan appealed Saturday to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people dead. The request came even as planes carried supplies to the impoverished country across a humanitarian air bridge. Federal planning minister Ahsan Iqbal called for

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. For the second time this week, the launch team began loading nearly 1 million

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say five people climbing Eurasia’s tallest active volcano have died in an accident and rescuers are trying to extract two other injured climbers. The climbers were trying to ascend to the top of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano, when the accident occurred about 500 meters below the 4,750-meter (15,884-foot) summit,

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa could face legal action over forced disappearances of activists now that he has been stripped of constitutional immunity following his return home. Rajapaksa flew to Colombo from Thailand after fleeing protests over economic hardships seven weeks

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA began fueling its new moon rocket Saturday for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. For the second time this week, the launch team began loading nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket,

By YESICA FISCH and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant was once again knocked offline in the early hours of Saturday amid sustained shelling that destroyed a key power line and penetrated deep into the plant’s premises, local Russian-backed authorities said. The claims came barely a day

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali state media and residents say the extremist group al-Shabab  killed at least 20 people and burned seven vehicles transporting food in the Hiran region Saturday morning. Residents said the attack was in retaliation for a local mobilization against the al-Qaida-affiliated group. Al-Shabab confirmed the attack

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian official has accused the U.S. and its allies of trying to provoke the country’s breakup and warned that it could lead to doomsday. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, warned the West that pushing Russia toward

By JIM HEINTZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, in a farewell snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin’s