Month: May 2023

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An explosion at an ammunition factory in southern Sweden has seriously injured at least one person. Police said they were investigating Wednesday’s blast as an industrial accident. The factory in Karlsborg, some 220 kilometers 137 miles) southwest of Stockholm, was manufacturing small-caliber ammunition. Police say while there is “uncertainty about how the

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say a car has exploded close to a police station near the country’s capital of Damascus killing one officer and injuring four others. The reports are citing the Interior Ministry and have not provided further details on the explosion. The blast took place early on Wednesday in the

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos has been arrested on federal criminal charges. The indictment says Santos induced supporters to donate to a company under the false pretense the money would be used to support his campaign. U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Wednesday the

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope have delivered a joint blessing from St. Peter’s Square. The blessing Wednesday is a significant ecumenical gesture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting of their predecessors. Patriarch Tawadros II of Alexandria joined Francis on the stage

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan can be held for eight days, a court ruled Wednesday, a day after the popular opposition leader was dragged from a courtroom and arrested on corruption charges, deepening the country’s political turmoil. Khan’s arrest Tuesday set off skirmishes

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press Former President Donald Trump will return to CNN’s airwaves on Wednesday, joining the network for a two-hour town hall event in early-voting New Hampshire a day after a civil jury found him liable for sexually assaulting an advice columnist nearly three decades ago. The forum, which was publicly announced last

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia has invited Syrian President Bashar Assad to the upcoming Arab League summit in the oil-rich kingdom. The Syrian president’s office Wednesday did not specify whether he will attend the May 19 summit in Jeddah. It comes as Damascus slowly returns to the Arab fold, following

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian police say they have arrested 29 people and smashed a transnational operation that brought migrants illegally into Italy by sea and then smuggled them in vehicles into northern Europe. The investigation was led by prosecutors in Calabria, the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, where many of

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City Council committee will consider a resolution on Wednesday that would designate the city as a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care, even as the state’s attorney general is proposing a new restrictions on the procedures for adults and children. The

By FARES AKRAM and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to Israeli airstrikes that have killed 16 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians. The rocket fire set

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police say a schoolboy was stabbed in the chest as he stepped out of his house to go to school in a residential area of downtown Tokyo. A suspect was arrested at the scene. The Tokyo metropolitan police say the 13-year-old junior high school student was rushed to a hospital on

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court Wednesday, a day after he was dragged from another court and arrested in Islamabad, setting off clashes between his supporters and police. Angry protesters stormed and set fire to a building housing Radio Pakistan in

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders have agreed to tighten border controls and law enforcement to fight criminal syndicates that are trafficking workers to other nations where they are forced to participate in online scams, according to a draft statement to be issued at the end of a

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday hosted his counterparts from Turkey, Syria and Iran for talks that marked the highest-level contact between Ankara and Damascus since the start of the Syrian Civil War. FM Sergey Lavrov said that he hoped the meeting would pave the way for a roadmap for normalizing Turkish-Syrian relations.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed decrees abolishing visas for Georgian nationals and lifting a 2019 ban on direct flights to the South Caucasus nation. According to the documents, starting from May 15, Georgian nationals will be allowed to enter Russia without visas — unless they’re coming to Russia to work or