Month: May 2023

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A brawl broke out over nominations for Minneapolis City Council candidates, leaving at least two people injured, a newspaper reported. The scuffle arose during the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party’s endorsing convention for Minneapolis Ward 10, held Saturday at a magnet school in the city, the Star Tribune reported. Video posted on social media showed

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has an ambitious agenda when he sets off this week on an eight-day trip to the Indo-Pacific. He’s looking to tighten bonds with longtime allies, make history as the first sitting U.S. president to visit the tiny island state of Papua New Guinea and

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire’s largest city are investigating a shooting at a graduation party that wounded four people on Saturday. Manchester police say all the victims who were injured, including two women and two men in their 20s, are expected to survive. Initial reports say the shooting reported just before 5

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. The synthetic images that emerged

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses its next director-general on Monday. The election comes as migrants have been on the move like

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen —

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian authorities have displayed many of around 13,500 weapons they say have been collected since this month’s mass shootings, including automatic weapons and anti-tank rocket launchers. The authorities have declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to hand over unregistered weapons or face prison sentences as

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand are counting votes in a general election that’s touted as a pivotal chance for change nine years after incumbent Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first came to power in a 2014 coup. He is now running against the daughter of the politician who is the

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his country is preparing a counteroffensive designed to liberate areas occupied by Russia, not to attack Russian territory. Speaking during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s goal is to free the territories within

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The governor of a state in western Burkina Faso says an attack by suspected Islamic extremists on a village has killed 33 civilians. The provisional death toll from the Thursday evening attack on the village of Youlou in Mouhoun province was announced in a press

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey voted Sunday in parliamentary and presidential elections that presented President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the biggest challenge of his two decades in power., with opinion surveys indicating the increasingly authoritarian leader trailing a challenger for the first time. The presidential election could

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was welcomed with military honors Sunday by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he made his first visit to Germany since Russia invaded Ukraine. Zelenskyy is visiting allies in search of further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion, and