Month: July 2024

Associated Press MUDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, an El Nino-induced drought is affecting millions of people, and children are most at risk. The U.N. says the drought has threatened the education of close to 2 million children in the southern African nation because of hunger and parents’ inability to pay school fees as their

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The bodies of four Pakistanis killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Oman this week have been repatriated and handed to their families. Relatives of the victims were present when the Pakistan International Airlines flights landed at the Islamabad and Lahore airports. The bodies were later given to the

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials in the northern English city of Leeds say order has been restored after a night of unrest that began when police and local government workers intervened in a “family incident” and residents poured into the streets in protest. Rioters set a bus on fire and tipped over a police

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on just a few providers for key computing

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago. Israeli Prime

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Transit workers around the country are managing their fear and anxiety over a rise in violent crime on subways and buses. Concern has grown after a series of brutal attacks in recent months against bus drivers, subway operators and station agents. The level of crime is striking because

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Transit workers around the country are managing their fear and anxiety over a rise in violent crime on subways and buses. Concern has grown after a series of brutal attacks in recent months against bus drivers, subway operators and station agents. The level of crime is striking because

Associated Press YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the U.S. government have rejected as fabricated. The swift conclusion of the secretive trial in Russia’s highly politicized legal system could potentially clear

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A rapidly growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers called Friday for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the president insisted he’s ready to return to the campaign trail next week to counter what he called a “dark vision” laid out by Republican Donald Trump. As more Democratic

Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho inmate received a life sentence for escaping state custody at a Boise hospital after the corrections officers guarding him were violently attacked. Skylar Meade earlier pleaded guilty to the escape and to sentencing enhancements for causing bodily injury and being a persistent violator. The district judge also

Associated Press/Report for America GROVE HILL, Ala. (AP) — One of the last remaining birthing units in southern Alabama is slated to close to qualify for federal funding that will save the hospital’s emergency services. But doctors warn the move scheduled for next month may cost newborns and pregnant women essential access to obstetric care.