Month: December 2022

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Two European aid groups have docked their rescue vessels in Italian ports and some 500 would-be refugees have disembarked, even as the Italian government insists it isn’t backing down on its hard line against migrant smuggling operations from North Africa. The Geo Berents, chartered by French aid

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — United States forces have killed two Islamic State group officials in eastern Syria in a helicopter raid. U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Sunday did not specify the location of the overnight operation, and said there were no civilian casualties in its initial assessments of the operation. ″“ISIS

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Voters in Shreveport have elected a Republican mayor for the first time in 28 years. Tom Arceneaux won a runoff election Saturday to become the next mayor of Louisiana’s third-largest city. A white Republican, 71-year-old Arceneaux defeated state Sen. Greg Tarver, a Black Democrat, in a city where roughly 55% of

By ERIC TUCKER and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, the Justice Department said

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — In a story published Dec. 8, 2022, about an oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in Kansas, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of Bold Nebraska’s founder. She is called Jane Kleeb, not Janet.

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rescuers searching the scene of an explosion at an apartment building on the English Channel island of Jersey said Sunday they expected to recover more bodies after three people were confirmed dead. Around a dozen people are still missing. Robin Smith, chief of Jersey Police, said specialist

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake has shaken southern Mexico, sending nervous residents of the capital into the street. The United States Geological Survey said Sunday morning earthquake’s epicenter was 2½ miles (4 kilometers) northwest of Corral Falso in the southern state of Guerrero. The area sits along Mexico’s Pacific coast between the

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s army says deadly shelling from Afghan forces has killed 6 people in a border town. The violence hitting southwestern Pakistan’s town of Chaman was the latest in a series of deadly incidents and attacks that have skyrocketed tensions with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. The Pakistani army’s media wing said the shelling

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries 81-year-old nursing

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner didn’t want any alone time as soon as she boarded a U.S. government plane that would bring her home. “I have been in prison for 10 months now, listening to Russian. I want to talk,” Griner said, according to Roger Carstens, the