Month: March 2023

RAHIM FAIEZ ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing the governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province in a suicide bombing at his office. The governor and two others died in the attack Thursday in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The Islamic State group later in the day claimed responsibility for the

BRUSSELS (AP) — A nationwide strike by Belgium’s public sector is slowing rush-hour traffic and affecting everything from garbage collection to childcare. Trade unions are protesting investment and employment cuts and demand that pension reforms be cut back. Train service was paralyzed in large parts of the nations and buses and subways were running on

By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in the German city of Hamburg left eight people dead, apparently including the perpetrator, police said Friday. An unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously. There was no word on a

MIAMI (AP) — Police in Miami say five suspects were taken into custody in connection with a shooting that wounded an officer on Wednesday. WTVJ-TV reports that Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez says the officer was conducting a narcotics investigation and was ambushed from behind while approaching another suspect. Ramirez says the shot grazed the

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign minister says his country is facing “a perfect storm” of troubles — an economic crisis, the consequences of catastrophic flooding and terrorism “that is once again rearing its ugly head” as a result of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn’t carry out the violence themselves. As they wrap up

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Only a few months into its term, Iraq’s government is suddenly enforcing a long-dormant law banning alcohol imports and arresting people over social media content deemed morally offensive. The crackdown has raised alarm among religious minorities and rights activists. Some see the measures as

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Surrounded by miles of dried land and what remains of his famished livestock, Daniel Lepaine is a worried man. Dozens of his goats in Ngong, a town in southern Kenya, have died after three years of harrowing drought in the east and Horn of Africa. The

BEIJING (AP) — Xi Jinping has been awarded a third five-year term as China’s president, adding to signs he might stay in power for life at a time of severe economic challenges and rising tensions with the U.S. and others. Xi’s unanimous endorsement Friday by the ceremonial National People’s Congress was a foregone conclusion. During

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, is scheduled to be sentenced for her murder on Friday. Paul Flores could face 25 years to life in state prison. The judge in Monterey County will first consider motions by Flores’