Month: November 2022

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has reached a preliminary agreement with Bangladesh to provide $4.5 billion to help the country to weather disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine and manage risks from climate change. The agreement reached Wednesday is subject to approval by the IMF’s executive board, which is expected in coming

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer Sauce Gardner has been a big reason for the New York Jets’ surprising 6-3 start and the cornerback is not alone in rookies making an immediate impact. Wide receiver Garrett Wilson, defensive end Jermaine Johnson and second-round running back Breece Hall have been key contributors. Coach Robert

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say suspected debris from a recent Chinese rocket launch has been found at sea off two provinces. They renewed their call Wednesday for Manila’s ratification of two U.N. treaties that allow people to seek compensation for damage or injury from falling debris from space launches. The Philippine Space Agency

By SETH BORENSTEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to international climate talks in Egypt this week with a message that historic American action to fight climate change won’t shift into reverse, as happened twice before when Democrats lost power. Current and former Biden top

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is to unveil the country’s military strategy through the end of the decade for his nuclear-armed country, in the midst of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Macron is to make a speech on the Dixmude helicopter carrier, docked in the Mediterranean military base

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says a Palestinian teenager was killed by shrapnel wounds during an Israeli raid near a flashpoint tomb in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials say 15-year-old Mahdi Hashash died on Wednesday before dawn, the latest fatality in nearly nightly Israeli raids during what has been one of the

MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court rejected an appeal of her nine-year sentence last month. The eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A European humanitarian group says its migrant rescue ship is heading toward the French island of Corsica in hopes that France will offer its 234 passengers a safe port. France has not publicly offered to take the Ocean Viking, but spokesman Francesco Creazzo of the SOS Mediterranee

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders convene in the Cambodian capital Thursday, faced with the challenge of trying to curtail escalating violence in Myanmar while the country’s military-led government shows no signs of complying with the group’s peace plan. U.S. President Joe Biden will be on hand for the Phnom

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly led his Republican rival, venture capitalist Blake Masters, but the race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate was too early to call. Kelly has distanced himself from Democratic President Joe Biden and plays down his party

By JULHAS ALAM, AL-EMRUN GARJON and SIBI ARASU Associated Press RAMPAL, Bangladesh (AP) — Fish, rice, mangrove trees and the lush delta wetlands where the massive Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers drain into the Bay of Bengal. It’s not luxury. But for the farmers and fishermen who live by the world’s largest mangrove forest, it’s