Month: July 2023

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution. They want to rejoin Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal wedding dowry more than 550 years ago. Orkney Islands Council is due to debate

By CARA ANNA and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of violence touched off by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in suburban Paris. The unrest, which appeared to be easing on Sunday night,

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Markets tipped lower Monday ahead of a holiday-shortened session with little corporate news or economic data expected until later in the week. Futures for the Dow fell 0.2% and the S&P 500 inched 0.1% lower. U.S. trading will close by 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday and

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s army has called on young people and anyone else capable of fighting to enlist in its battle against the country’s rival paramilitary force, known as the Rapid Support Forces. It is the second such call to be issued by army leaders in recent days. Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities. Some of the migrants are seeking a better education than they can get in village schools that they

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto has lifted a six-year ban on logging over the concerns of environmentalists. The president said Sunday it was “foolish” to have mature trees rotting in forests while local industries lacked timber. He said, “This is why we have decided to open up

Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Commissioners of the European Union are meeting with the Spanish government to review Spain’s plans for its six-month Presidency of the EU Council. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her team arrived Monday for the one-day meeting in Madrid. Continued support for Ukraine, a migration pact, EU relations with

By JULIO CORTEZ and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A holiday weekend block party in Baltimore ended tragically after multiple people opened fire, killing two and wounding 30 others, many of them under 18. The circumstances leading up to the shooting early Sunday remained under investigation after police spent hours combing a massive

By NASSER NASSER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Israel struck targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank with drones early Monday and deployed hundreds of troops in the area, in an incursion that resembled the wide-scale military operations carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia’s armed forces are bruised but by no means beaten in the war in Ukraine, a top NATO military officer said Monday, as he laid out the biggest revamp to the organization’s military plans since the Cold War should Moscow dare to widen the conflict. “They might

PARIS (AP) — Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow on its sixth night, but fires and vandalism continued to target public buildings, cars and municipal trash cans overnight into Monday. The riots appeared driven by a teenage backlash. The interior minister said the average age of those

LONDON (AP) — The head of the United Nations called Monday for maritime nations to agree on a course for the shipping industry to reduce its climate-harming emissions to net zero by the middle of the century at the latest. The appeal by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres came at the start of a meeting of

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel used drones to strike targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank early Monday and deployed hundreds of troops in the area, in an incursion that resembled the wide-scale military operations carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. Palestinian health officials

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — World shares rose Monday as investors took heart from reports that show inflation is abating, which might enable the Federal Reserve to back away from interest rate hikes. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices edged higher. Germany’s DAX added 0.3% to 16,187.06. In Paris, the