Month: April 2023

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria is the latest European country to temporarily ban the import of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural produce following protests from local farmers, excluding goods in transit destined for export. The measure announced Wednesday will be in place until the end of June. Officials say it will protect Bulgarian farmers’ competitiveness

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press MANANJARY, Madagascar (AP) — Humanitarian groups say children in remote areas of southeast Madagascar are experiencing “catastrophic” levels of hunger after three cyclones battered the region in the space of a year. UNICEF and Madagascar’s National Office for Nutrition have reported that the combined impact of Cyclones Batsirai, Emnati and

By ADAM PEMBLE KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday his country has received U.S-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian strikes during the war. “Today, our beautiful Ukrainian sky becomes more secure because Patriot air defense systems have arrived

By MARK SCOLFORO and PETER SMITH Associated Press YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of child sexual abuse in what some consider the nation’s most comprehensive investigation yet into abuse within the faith. The sets of charges filed in October

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. officials say Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain’s critical infrastructure and not enough is being done to stop them. Britain’s National Cybersecurity Center has issued an official threat notice to operators of Britain’s electricity, water and other critical systems, telling them to boost

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Moscow court has dismissed a prominent Russian opposition figure’s appeal of his 8 1/2-year prison sentence for criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin was convicted in December of spreading false information about the military, which was made a criminal offense after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into

By MEAD GRUVER and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press LYONS, Colo. (AP) — Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes don’t talk about their toughest moments on the job in the cloud seeding business, like the time when one of them got stuck in deep mountain snow and had to hike out alone in the dark. “They’re

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Most of the nation’s major professional sports leagues, plus the media companies Fox and NBCUniversal are creating an alliance to ensure that sports betting advertising is done responsibly and does not target minors. The Coalition for Responsible Sports Betting Advertising was created Wednesday, consisting of

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is following global markets lower early Wednesday ahead of another trove of corporate earnings reports and potentially new maneuvers by central banks. Futures for the S&P fell 0.6% before the bell and the Dow were slipped 0.3%. Surprisingly strong earnings reports have buoyed markets

BERLIN (AP) — A German labor union is calling for railway workers to stage an eight-hour strike on Friday to back calls for an inflation-busting pay raise. Walkouts are also scheduled at three airports this week in a parallel pay dispute. The EVG rail workers union called for members to walk off the job from

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An unemployed 24-year-old man who allegedly threw a pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wanted to be a politician and believed that he was unfairly blocked from running for Japan’s parliament by an age requirement, according to media reports and social media posts that appeared to

LONDON (AP) — The manager of a Paris publishing house has been released by London police after his employer said he was arrested following questioning about participation in France’s protests against pension reform. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson on Wednesday didn’t name Ernest Moret but said a 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of obstructing their investigation

SHANGHAI (AP) — News reports say Chinese authorities concluded Tesla Inc.’s Shanghai factory where an employee died in a Feb. 4 accident has weaknesses in its safety measures. The business news magazine Caixin and other outlets said the report by the emergency bureau of Shanghai’s Pudong district recommended an unspecified administrative penalty for Tesla. The

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press AYODHYA, India (AP) — Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he doesn’t recognize anymore. It’s a country, the 68-year-old says, where Muslims are ignored, where rising attacks against them are encouraged, and where an emboldened Hindu majoritarian government is seizing its chance to put the