Month: March 2023

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed “a massive rocket attack” that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions of Ukraine, the country’s president said Thursday, with officials reporting at least six deaths in the largest such night-time attack in three weeks. Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Young people in France are protesting against the government’s push to raise the retirement age. Students plan to block access to some universities and high schools on Thursday, and a youth-led protest is planned in Paris. It is part of nationwide strikes and demonstrations against the

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s ruling party says it is withdrawing a draft law from the parliament criticized as potentially stifling media freedom and civil society. The announcement came Thursday after several days of protests in the country’s capital. The Georgian Dream party and its allies said they were withdrawing

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A suspected Israeli airstrike targeting Aleppo International Airport in Syria again tore multiple craters on its runway, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press showed Thursday. A United Nations official separately has criticized the attack for hindering earthquake relief for the hard-hit, war-torn nation.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police say a Taliban-appointed provincial governor and two others have been killed in a bomb explosion. Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban police spokesman for the northern Balkh province, said Thursday that Daud Muzmal and two others were killed inside the governor’s office in Mazar-e Sharif, the provinicial capital. No one has claimed

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say at least three Palestinian militants were killed after Israeli security forces entered a village in the northern occupied West Bank. The Israeli Police said Thursday that troops carried out a raid in Jaba to apprehend suspects wanted for attacks on Israeli soldiers in the vicinity. The three militants killed

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and Japanese leaders will hold a summit next week. That’s according to an announcement Thursday from South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office. South Korea recently took a major step toward resolving strained bilateral ties stemming from Tokyo’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Yoon is to visit