Month: June 2023

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry announced early Monday its forces had thwarted a large Ukrainian attack in the eastern province of Donetsk, though it’s unclear if this was the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The ministry, in a rare early morning video, said its forces pushed back a

A landslide tore through a mining company’s worker dormitory early Sunday morning in southwestern China, killing 19 people, authorities said. The disaster struck in a mountainous rural district of Sichuan province’s Leshan county, where rains have been falling constantly for weeks. More than 180 people were mobilized to help find those buried under the debris

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Monday its sailors and the United Kingdom Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard “harassed” it. Three fast-attack Guard vessels with armed troops aboard approached the unidentified merchant

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is now 98 years old as he receives hospice care. His fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King Jr., would have been 94. The two men never met during all their time in Atlanta. But the Rev. Bernice King tells The Associated Press that Carter has been

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Giovanni Di Lorenzo has become the first Napoli player to lift the Serie A trophy toward the sky since Diego Maradona. And he did so Sunday in the stadium named after the Argentina soccer great. Napoli had clinched its first Serie A title in 33 years

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said. The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday received one of New Zealand’s highest honors for her service leading the country through a mass shooting and pandemic. Ardern was made a Dame Grand Companion, the second-highest honor in New Zealand, as part of King Charles III’s

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say an arson investigation is under way after fire damaged a nearly 100-year-old Los Angeles church for the second time in less than two years. The LA Fire Department says flames erupted shorty before 7 p.m. Saturday in the sanctuary of St. John’s United Methodist Church and spread into a

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti say at least 15 people have died and another eight are missing after heavy rains unleased widespread flooding and several landslides across Haiti over the weekend. Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said Sunday that nearly 13,400 people were forced to evacuate as water consumed hundreds of homes around the

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Karim Benzema converted his penalty kick and received a standing ovation from fans before being substituted at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. It was the end of his memorable career with Real Madrid. Benzema was replaced after scoring the 72nd-minute equalizer in the 1-1 draw against Athletic