Month: April 2023

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans. The beleaguered home goods chain

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule. Sai Kyaw Thu, deputy director-general of the military-appointed Union Election Commission, was shot multiple times on Saturday, according

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested  over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg in which four people were seriously wounded. Prosecutors said the 26-year-old Syrian citizen was arrested shortly after midnight on Sunday. He was to be brought before a judge on Monday

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The U.S. military has airlifted embassy officials out of Sudan and international governments were racing to evacuate their diplomatic staff and citizens trapped in the capital. Meanwhile, rival generals battled for control of Africa’s third-largest country for a ninth straight day Sunday. Fierce fighting raged in Omdurman, the neighboring city across

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a train has hit a car at a crossing in northern Germany, killing all three people in the car. The regional train hit the car at full speed near Neustadt am Ruebenberge, outside the city of Hannover on Sunday morning. The car’s 22-year-old driver was killed, along with two women

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German government officials and labor unions have reached a pay deal for more than 2.5 million public-sector workers, ending a lengthy dispute and heading off the possibility of disruptive all-out strikes. The ver.di union had pressed for hefty raises as Germany, like many other countries, grapples with

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — An area of the Disneyland resort in California has reportedly caught fire. KABC-TV reports the fire broke out Saturday night during the “Fantasmic” show in the Tom Sawyer Island section of the resort in Anaheim. KABC reports the Anaheim Fire Department there have not been any injuries reported. The extent of

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Orit Pinhasov strongly opposes the Israeli government’s proposed judicial overhaul, but you won’t find her anywhere near the mass protests against the plan. She says her marriage depends on it. Pinhasov’s husband sits on the opposite side of Israel’s political divide, and joining the protests will only

By MARC LEVY Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can’t get enough of — and

By MATTHEW LEE, TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy violence-torn Sudan, U.S. officials said late Saturday, sweeping in and out of the capital, Khartoum, with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired