Month: November 2022

By JOHN LEICESTER and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An overnight rocket attack destroyed a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a 2-day-old baby, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. Ukraine’s first lady said the attack caused “horrible pain,” vowing that “we will never forget and never forgive.” The baby’s mother and a

By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — More rescuers and volunteers were deployed Wednesday in devastated areas on Indonesia’s main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 271 people. With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 2,000 people injured

By ALEX BRANDON Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead. The store in Chesapeake is now safe, Officer Leo Kosinski said in the

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has teased a third presidential campaign from the moment he left the White House. But in the week since Trump officially declared his candidacy, the Republican former president has been uncharacteristically low key. There has been no massive stadium kickoff rally. Trump’s newly reinstated

BERLIN (AP) — The first of several ships that will serve as floating terminals to receive liquefied natural gas imports in Germany have arrived off the Baltic Sea port of Mukran. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany has scrambled to secure alternative sources of gas to replace Russian supplies, on which the country

PARIS (AP) — The European Space Agency is unveiling its newest astronaut recruits, concluding its first recruitment drive in over a decade that aims to bring diversity to space travel. Over 22,000 applicants came forward in the hiring push announced February of last year by Europe’s answer to NASA — including more women than ever

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares have advanced ahead of Wednesday’s release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting. Benchmarks rose in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Markets were closed in Japan for a holiday. The Federal Reserve minutes could give investors more insight into the U.S.

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Scotland does not have the power to hold a new referendum on independence without the consent of the British government. The judgment is a setback for the Scottish government’s campaign to break away from the United Kingdom. Scottish First Minister

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group says the Israeli military has demolished a school in the occupied West Bank, part of a long-standing expulsion order against eight Palestinian hamlets. B’Tselem, the rights group, said schoolchildren were inside the classrooms as soldiers arrived ahead of Wednesday’s demolition. Video provided by the group showed a bulldozer

By JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Employees at the world’s biggest Apple iPhone factory were beaten and detained in protests over pay amid anti-virus controls, according to witnesses and videos on social media Wednesday, as tensions mount over Chinese efforts to combat a renewed rise in infections. Videos that