Month: May 2023

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is seeking to encourage his embattled child protection advisory board following weeks of turmoil and a shock resignation. Francis met with his Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors on Friday. He urged its members to pursue a “spirituality of reparation” with abuse survivors and build

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say thousands of mourners have attended the mass funeral of seven minority Shiite teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan. The mourners also rallied on Friday against the killings. The teachers were gunned down on Thursday when assailants stormed a school in Kurram, a district

By HAVEN DALEY and JULIE WATSON Associated Press COLOMA, Calif. (AP) — Triple Threat. Deadman’s Drop. Satan’s Cesspool. After years of drought, the rapids along California’s American River are truly living up to their names. As a historic snowpack starts to melt, the spring runoff is fueling conditions for some of the best whitewater in

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press PANAJI, India (AP) — Foreign ministers from a group of nations led by China and Russia are meeting in the Indian coastal resort state of Goa, where they are expected to discuss regional security, combating terrorism and deepening economic and cultural ties. India’s Foreign Minister Subhramanyam Jaishankar in opening remarks

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says the gunman in the latest mass shooting targeted people at random, calling it an attack on the whole country. Aleksandar Vucic said the assailant shot at people “wherever they were.” A gunman killed eight people and wounded 14 in three

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets were mostly higher Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs update amid worries about the health of banks under pressure from interest rate hikes. London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Wall Street futures advanced. Shanghai declined. Markets in Japan and South Korea were closed for

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas saw operating earnings dwindle in the first three months of the year as the German sportswear company’s breakup with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and his popular Yeezy shoe brand cost it 400 million euros ($441 million) in lost sales. The company is

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Authorities are looking into possible casualties and damage after a strong earthquake hit Friday afternoon near central Japan. The quake struck at 2:42 p.m. Friday in Ishikawa prefecture near the central west coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu. The Japan Meteorological Agency put the preliminary

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have arrested an Iraqi suspect accused of involvement in terror attacks in Baghdad more than a decade ago that killed hundreds of people. The federal prosecutor’s office on Sunday identified the suspect as a person in their 40s who has been living in Belgium since 2015. It said the suspect

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who marked 20 years in power this year, is seeking a third consecutive term in office as Turkey’s president in elections on May 14. The Turkish leader began his career as a reformist who expanded rights and freedoms, allowing his country to start

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s May 14 presidential election could be the toughest challenge yet in the two-decade rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It comes amid a devastating earthquake and soaring inflation — problems that Turkey faced as Erdogan was in the early stages of his political career more