AP National News

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say the country’s gas storage facilities are now more than 90% full and rising steadily despite Russia cutting off deliveries through a major pipeline. The head of the national network regulator tweeted late Monday that gas storage had “achieved another milestone,” adding that the stored gas will help in managing

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona barreled toward the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a Category 3 storm, prompting the government to impose a curfew. Forecasters said Fiona was expected to pass near Grand Turk, the British territory’s capital island, on Tuesday morning. “Storms are unpredictable,”

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas, before he was shot and wounded by sheriff’s deputies. Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas says that just before 11 p.m. Monday a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted what he described as the U.S. efforts to preserve its global domination. Putin says that they are doomed to fail. The Russian leader was speaking Tuesday while receiving credentials from foreign ambassadors to Moscow. Putin said that “the objective development toward a multipolar world faces resistance

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will get some high-powered help this week to reach its $18 billion goal to fund another three years to slow the spread of these diseases. President Joe Biden will host The Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference,

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 14 young sperm whales that were found beached on an island off of the southeastern coast. Officials say the whales were discovered on King Island, part of the state of Tasmania in the Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania’s northern coast. It wasn’t

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary’s justice minister is urging her European Union partners to be “tolerant” after the EU’s executive branch recommended suspending billions of euros in funding to the country. The European Commission is concerned about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money. It says freeze $7.5 billion

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late flurry of buying as investors awaited another interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve. France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.5% in early trading to 6,034.21. Germany’s DAX lost 0.3% to 12,763.74. Britain’s FTSE

By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The school was a shattered mess. Its six-month life as a Russian base and mechanic shop ended in August with a Ukrainian missile strike. Its years educating Izium’s youth were over, but it had one last gift for the residents who needed so

By AYA BATRAWY AP Business Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Germany’s climate envoy says the country remains committed to phasing out coal as a source of power by 2030 even as it reactivates coal-fired power plants. The country says it has taken this step to get through the coming winter amid energy shortages as a

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Brittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason. For the past few decades, Russia has been the preferred offseason destination for WNBA players to compete because of

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is now deploying captured Russian tanks to solidify its gains in the northeast amid an ongoing counteroffensive, a Washington-based think tank said Tuesday, as Kyiv vowed to push further into territories occupied by Moscow. The Institute for the Study of War, citing a Russian claim,

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late buying spree following recent losses as investors await another interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Markets have been jittery over whether the Fed’s plan to cool the hottest U.S. inflation in

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says the death of Queen Elizabeth II is a “very difficult moment” for the country,” and dealing with it has been a challenge for her untested new government. Truss took office just two days before the queen died on Sept. 8,

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan health authorities say a man who died this week has tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola. They said in a statement that it’s still unknown how the man became infected with Ebola. He lived in the central Ugandan town of Mubende, about 150

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An unofficial tribunal organized by a group of media freedom organizations has declared Mexico, Sri Lanka and Syria guilty of violating international humanitarian law for failing to protect journalists. The People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists, which no legal authority, delivered a judgment aimed at holding the governments accountable.

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Giambarini Group’s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron parts super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as natural gas prices spike. Methane to create molten zinc that forms a protective

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new court filing says a former Republican Party official in Georgia who was a fake elector in 2020 misrepresented her role in an alleged breach of voting equipment at a rural elections office two months after the presidential election. The filing late Monday is part of