Month: April 2023

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denied a U.S request for a consular visit to an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is jailed on espionage charges. The ministry said on Thursday that it rejected the request for the May 11 visit in retaliation for the U.S. refusing to grant visas to

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says Iran has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program. The Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel taken on Thursday as the Advantage Sweet. Satellite tracking data for the

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street pointed toward gains ahead of the release of data expected to show the world’s biggest economy cooled in the first quarter despite a very strong showing from the largest companies in the U.S. during the same period. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials rose

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway. The high seas face-off between the larger Chinese ship and

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Michigan State University, children of employees can spend Thursday seeing what its like to staff a dairy farm, work in sports or plant a tree at the school’s first in-person Take Our Kids to Work Day since the pandemic began. Some 1,500 employees and kids

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway. The high seas face-off between the larger Chinese ship and

BERLIN (AP) — Millions of Turkish citizens living abroad have began voting in national elections that will decide whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can govern Turkey for another term. The overseas balloting began amid concerns over  the president’s health, after he was forced to cancel election rallies on Wednesday and Thursday. Among the biggest contingent

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national weather service says temperatures are set to “reach values typical of summer” across most of the country. A high of 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) was forecast for Thursday for the southern Guadalquivir Valley. As people in the country sweltered, Spanish media reported that the Health Ministry would consider

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Fighting intensified in Sudan’s war-ravaged province of Darfur during a fragile three-day truce between the country’s battling top generals, killing an estimated dozens of people, residents said Thursday. The truce eased fighting in the country’s capital, creating a lull that allowed foreign governments to evacuate thousands of

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Air Resources Board plans to vote on a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule limiting rail pollution. The goal is to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions from locomotives. The standards would also reduce a group of chemicals that contribute to the formation of smog. They

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday ahead of the release of data that are expected to show the world’s biggest economy slowing in the first quarter of the year. Shares rose in Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai but fell in London and Sydney. U.S.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say seven people were killed when a passenger train caught fire in southern Pakistan. Railways official Mohsn Sial said the cause of the blaze north of Karachi remained unclear Thursday. TV footage showed several badly burned cars on the train, which was on its way to the eastern city of