Month: May 2023

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A nighttime fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 19 students and injuring several others at a boarding school catering to remote, mostly Indigenous villages, authorities said. “This is a horrific incident. It’s tragic. It’s painful,” President Irfaan Ali said, adding

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he was blindsided during an attack on him outside a South Florida hotel following a concert earlier this year. The band performed in Fort Lauderdale on March 13 when Allen says he was attacked outside of a hotel. He says he heard a couple

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections on Monday has formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the upcoming runoff vote to be held on May 28th. The nationalist presidential candidate Sinan Ogan, 55, emerged as a potential kingmaker after neither Erdogan nor his main

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say the office of the Lebanese public prosecutor has summoned the country’s embattled central bank governor for questioning. The summons Monday follows an international arrest warrant issued against him in France over corruption charges. Salameh is to answer the summons later this week, although no

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest atomic power station, spent hours operating on emergency diesel generators after losing its external power supply for the seventh time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A member of the Belarus opposition movement is calling on the European Union to maintain sanctions against a Belarusian state fertilizer producer. Pavel Latushka argued Monday that lifting sanctions would generate $1.5 billion in profits for Alexander Lukashenko’s regime while supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine. Latushka

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two Ukrainian war veterans who lost limbs in the 2014 war with Russia have taken part in a walk to raise money for medical equipment. The pair started from the cities of Zhytomyr and Kyiv and walked toward each other, covering a total of 120 kilometers

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears. The penalty of 1.2 billion euros is

LAKES OF THE FOUR SEASONS, Ind. (AP) — A hand grenade found as a family went through an older relative’s belongings exploded, killing an Indiana man and injuring his two teenage children, police said. The explosion fatally injured the 47-year-old man Saturday evening at the home in the community of Lakes of the Four Seasons

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea and the European Union have agreed to increase pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine and condemn North Korea’s ballistic missile tests. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — On a spring Saturday afternoon, two “hermanos” knelt to pray in the chapel of their Catholic brotherhood of St. Isidore the Farmer, nestled by the pine forest outside this hamlet in a high mountain valley. Fidel Trujillo and Leo Paul Pacheco’s words resounded in New Mexican

GENEVA (AP) — The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian state news agency on Monday reported that a dissident journalist who was pulled off a flight that was forced to land in the country and was later sentenced to eight years in prison says he has received a presidential pardon. Raman Pratasevich was quoted

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Spanish soccer is again embroiled in racism and the support for Vinícius Júnior is growing rapidly after yet another case of abuse against the Brazil forward this weekend. Officials, players and former players showed their solidarity with Vinícius. He considered leaving the field after being insulted