Month: April 2023

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops. It is an unprecedented change that reflects Francis’ hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church. Francis approved changes

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s foreign minister says the new government led by a communist prime minister will give priority to enhancing relations with both of its giant neighbors, India and China, but won’t use them against each other for its own benefit. Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud said in

By KATIA IERVASI of NerdWallet The “infinite banking” movement is trending on TikTok as a way to create wealth. It sounds simple: Use your cash value life insurance policy to take out low-interest loans and finance large purchases like college tuition and home renovations. But this strategy is best suited to individuals with high net

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call that his government will send an envoy to Ukraine and other nations to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country. A government statement gave no indication whether the envoy also would visit Russia. A

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military says an army operation in the northwest targeting militants triggered a firefight that left two soldiers and two insurgents dead. The firefight happened Wednesday in Tirah, a former militant stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the military said in a statement. It provided no details about the slain

LONDON British regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority said in its final report Wednesday that “the only effective remedy” to the significant loss of competition that the deal would result

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer PERUIBE, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Indigenous women often lead their villages and groups but for many years they were looked down on when they tried to play soccer. The South American nation has improved its structure for female players recently and Indigenous women say they also feel encouraged to

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday will sign an agreement that includes plans to have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years, a conspicuous show of support to Seoul amid growing concern

KYIV Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is using the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid his country’s war with Russia. Zelenskyy drew a parallel between the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986 to Moscow’s brief seizure of

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Every decision Assata Salim makes for her young son is important. Amid a spike in mass killings, questions of safety were at the top of her mind when choosing a school. Next on her checklist was the school’s culture. Salim and her 6-year-old, Cho’Zen Waters,